Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
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Latest news
- Oct 14: Podcasting 2.0 and the Podcast Index are now six years old; Dutch publication Spreekbuis - which had the initial scoop - covers the anniversary.
- Oct 7: The Podcast Index has updated its terms of service, reducing it from 1,088 to just 168 lines.
- Oct 5: The Podcast Index has launched Podcast Robot, a full MCP server for AI assistants. The tool lets you ask questions to your assistant about podcasts, to discover new ones.
- Oct 1: The Nigerian Podcast Index released its 2026 Industry Report. It says that the amount of podcasts coming out of the country has nearly doubled; but that the number of "podfaded" shows - shows that have stopped publishing - has also significantly increased.
- Sep 7: Opinion: We've covered companies sending these sorts of things before. Where a photograph for a thumbnail has been used under licence from a publisher, then our legal advice (and the advice of stock image libraries that we asked) is that this use should be covered by the publisher's licence: even if a resized/cached copy of an image by a directory is made for privacy or technical purposes; there is some US case law to that effect. But - a slow hand-clap to the German dpa, who it appears may succeed in closing the only German podcast directory, giving more control to the US-run directories of Spotify, Apple and Podcast Index which are outside their legal jurisdiction. We've asked dpa for comment: they haven't replied.
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