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Podchaser is a full database of podcasts and podcast hosts. It contains premium information for advertisers, including estimated audience size.

Owned by: Acast

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Oct 8: The Podcast Taxonomy, a standard way to describe podcast job roles, has disappeared from the internet. It was launched in 2020 by Podchaser, and the specification is part of Podcasting 2.0's person feature. There's been no communication from the original team.
Jun 12: iHeartRadio, Amazon Music and Acast's Podchaser also had this kind of spam in their directory, says the committee's report. Jellypod, an AI-generated podcast tool, is highlighted as one of the tools used to publish this content. We've covered efforts to remove spam shows like this in the past (like this, back in 2022, and the Podcast Index's work more recently). In our opinion, this isn't a Spotify problem - it's an industry-wide issue, that we should be working together to combat. It shouldn't be hard to automatically share potentially problematic feeds across the industry: and to highlight podcast hosting companies who fail to adequately moderate their users' content.
Nov 4, 2024: Podchaser has launched “political skew data” across 500,000 podcasts. It uses “a combination of AI-driven analysis and human verification to determine the political lean of each podcast audience,” and aims to predict left, right or neutral bias and the degree of lean.
Sep 12, 2024: Podchaser has announced that its AI-powered Collections+ targeting tool has helped 24% more Acast podcast creators to earn podcast revenue - helping ad revenue reach a wider set of shows than just the top podcasts.

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