Spreaker
The one-stop-shop for recording, publishing, monetizing and distributing your podcasts.
Website: www.spreaker.com
Owned by: iHeartMedia
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Spreaker is IAB Certified
It was certified for v2.1 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Jul 26, 2021.
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Latest news
- Sep 23:
Pocket Casts uses the standard
podcast:transcript
feature in your podcast RSS feed. It doesn’t generate transcripts for you: like your thumbnail image and your audio, it’s all in your control. Podcast transcripts are supported by a number of large podcast hosting companies, including Blubrry, Buzzsprout, RSS.com, Transistor, Spreaker and others. - Sep 5: Spreaker has made changes to its auto-optimisation feature, which adds advertisements to podcasts. The company looks as if it has opted more podcasters into the tool, which appears to now recommend more ad breaks - some podcasters report an ad break is being inserted every five minutes. (You can adjust it back down).
- Sep 4: Spreaker is to launch Spreaker Create, a way to create a podcast directly from the Spreaker app. The company has opened beta testing for the new feature. Spotify removed a similar function earlier this year for users of its Spotify for Podcasters host.
- Sep 2: Megaphone has overtaken Triton Digital’s Omny Studio as the #4 biggest podcast host, according to total episode share in August measured by Livewire. Spreaker continues to take more episode share at #2; Spotify for Podcasters is still #1, though has lost almost a quarter of its market share this year.
- Aug 26: Above - what a request from the Apple Podcasts web player looks like, as seen by OP3. The user-agent looks like a browser; but the “referer” header makes it clear that this is coming from Apple Podcasts. Many podcast hosting companies (Ausha, Buzzsprout, Spreaker, Captivate and Transistor), and OP3, are using the referer to count these as Apple Podcasts downloads.
Data credits: IAB, Podnews newsletter