Spreaker
The one-stop-shop for recording, publishing, monetizing and distributing your podcasts.
Website: www.spreaker.com
Owned by: iHeartMedia
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About Spreaker
Spreaker, part of the iHeartMedia family, is a leading podcast hosting, creation, and monetization platform designed to empower both individual creators and large podcast publishers. With an extensive suite of user-friendly tools, Spreaker supports podcast production, distribution, and advanced monetization strategies, making it easier for podcasters to grow and thrive. To learn more, visit [https://www.spreaker.com/].
Spreaker is IAB Certified
It was certified for v2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Mar 4, 2025.
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Latest news
- Nov 9: Triton Digital's Spreaker commits to fighting unauthorized podcast copies - The company commits to stronger safeguards to protect creators PRESS RELEASE
- Nov 2: After our piece about Spreaker last week, which appears to be enabling its users to steal other podcasts to earn money, the weekly Podcast Index catalog snapshot (and our specific query for Spreaker shows) indicates that Spreaker has managed to clean up just 72 shows from its list. There are now 1,706 shows in Apple Podcasts from Spreaker that are also available on Apple Podcasts from another podcast hosting company; including podcasts originally from NRJ, History Hit, NBC News, Audacy, Vox Media and more. The iHeart-owned company appears to be doing little to clean up its act (hardly surprising: they earn 41% from the advertising they inject into stolen shows).
- Oct 28: There's been a lot of feedback about our story of Spreaker users copying podcasts yesterday. One reader says: "What a relief to see the article ... I've been dealing with this repeatedly. We make kids audio, and the ads that they run on our stolen IP are for products for use by adults." ... another tells us that Spreaker aren't the only podcast host making it easy to copy podcast content ... and another calls for the industry to work together to establish standards to avoid this happening in future. Spreaker has said, and done, nothing since giving us a statement.
- Oct 27: Exclusive: Podcast hosting company Spreaker is, we believe, enabling wholesale copyright theft for podcasts - letting people copy other, well-known shows, host copies of them, and sell ads in the stolen audio. We discovered how easy it is to copy someone else's show on Spreaker; saw how few checks the company does to enable monetisation; and found that there are more than 1,700 shows duplicated on Spreaker at the moment, from publishers like PodcastOne, Vox Media, Goalhanger and SiriusXM. We have all the details in a special report.
- Sep 25: As we type this, the Apple Podcasts "top self-improvement shows" for the UK contains The Mel Robbins podcast at #2, and, um, The Mel Robbins Podcast at #28. The second one is suspiciously "by Mel Robinss", with two "s"s, and is hosted on Spreaker. Or, rather, was hosted on Spreaker: the pirated show has been pulled down. (This issue is as old as free podcast hosts: we reported this happening on Anchor in August 2020).
Data credits: IAB, Podnews newsletter