What's new from Podigee

At the same time, a new era begins for podcasts on Podigee: podcast hosting is becoming a complete system for podcasting, step by step. Video, AI-powered production, analytics, monetization and more to come: all in one place. Video podcasts and all new features are exclusively available with a current plan. Find all details on our pricing page. Time to give your podcast a face.

Available for podcasts using dynamic monetization via AdsWizz or the Podigee Ad Marketplace and the paid AI add-on.

You stay fully in control at all times: Episodes that already contain AI-generated content are automatically skipped. All results are provided as suggestions that you can quickly and conveniently review and consciously apply, for example, indicated by the sparkle icon ✨. Available for podcasts using the paid AI add-on.

Funding Tags are shown on platforms that support this feature, such as Pocket Casts, AntennaPod, and Podcast Addict.

Instead of constantly checking RSS feeds, new episodes are delivered directly through a modern, decentralized system. For you, this means your listeners never miss a new episode, and everything happens automatically, reliably, and without any effort.

Imagine standing at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and your podcatcher shows you all episodes that are specifically about Paris or the Eiffel Tower. Or you’re curious which podcasts originated in Buxtehude. Locations make this possible – and not only for real places, but also for fictional locations like “Hogwarts.” You can indicate whether an episode or the podcast is about this location or was recorded at this location. This adds a new dimension to your content and makes it easier for listeners to discover what makes your podcast unique. The more podcasters use locations, the more exciting it becomes for platforms and podcatchers.

In Podigee, you can select your published podcasts in the “Feeds” section to be displayed as recommendations in the RSS feed. These recommendations will also automatically appear in the “More from us” section of your Podigee blog. Currently, the PodRoll tag is only available for podcasts hosted on Podigee. It can only be edited by podcast owners or organization admins.

It analyzes your audio files and helps with the tasks that usually take the most time: suggesting titles, descriptions, and show notes, creating automatic chapter marks, and highlighting strong quotes for social media. New to this release is the analysis of your speech and tone analysis. It shows you how you sound, how complex your language is, and how your content resonates with your audience – helping you communicate more effectively. The AI is fully integrated into Podigee – just look for the small sparkles. One click, and the analysis begins. We believe AI not only saves you time but also gives you powerful insights to make your podcast even better. *The Podigee AI Add-on is a paid feature with a transparent minute-based model.

Podigee and our Podigee Ad Server are now IAB v2.2 certified, ensuring that our analytics and ad deliveries follow the latest standard – for a fair, comparable, and open podcast ecosystem. We strongly support the open podcast standard and the idea that creators should always maintain full control over their content. That’s why we actively participate in the Podcast Standards Project, helping to expand and adapt the standard to new developments.

This update comes with our IAB 2.2 certification renewal, giving you greater transparency and a more complete picture of your reach.

Under the hood, we’ve updated the technology to the latest standards. This means more stability, faster load times, and better everyday performance. At the same time, it lays the foundation for developing new features more quickly and responding to feedback more flexibly. Alongside the improved interface, there are practical new features such as image cropping for podcast covers, direct display of audio file metadata, a faster episode list, and status indicators for exports to platforms like Apple or Spotify. With the new Podigee frontend, we combine modern design with future-proof technology, so you can focus entirely on what matters most: creating great podcasts.

This new feature saves time and ensures that all essential information is automatically imported from the MP3 file. Smart safeguards prevent manually edited fields from being overwritten. Your episode is fully prepared right after upload and can be published faster.

This new feature makes it easier to meet the required image dimensions, ensuring that podcasts and episodes can be published without issues. In the cropping module, you can select the perfect frame, move it, and resize it. After cropping, the image is automatically scaled, reducing file size and ensuring correct display.

Whenever a podcast reaches a certain lifetime download milestone, users will receive a “reward-badge”. This badge will be shown in the app and can easily be shared with friends or across other channels.Achievements are now delivered as push notifications whenever a new goal is reached.

Podigee has launched the world's first MCP server for podcasts, connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to your podcast data. This allows you to ask questions in natural language (e.g., 'What were my top episodes this month?') and receive real-time, personalized analytics insights. This integration of AI helps you understand your audience, optimize content, and grow your podcast more effectively.

The ability to share your podcast with others is also popular. Here, too, there's an extension that lets you see links to the most popular platforms at a glance and share them with others. If you're not familiar with the Podigee Mobile App yet, you should give it a try!

This already makes it very easy to compare episodes fairly. If an episode is online for a very long time, the data can become misleading, because older episodes, just had longer time to be found. However, for some of our users, the seven days weren't enough, for example, because they tend to publish less frequently. We listened to feedback and expanded the chart so that it's now also possible to compare performance over the first 30 days.

Podigee has always pursued an "API first" approach. All clickable functions can also be used programmatically via the API. Using an API, you can easily automate your podcast workflow. You can find all the details about the API – also in machine-readable format – in our API documentation. With today's new feature, another important detail can be controlled via the API. You can now also use the API to specify which of your episodes should include the intro or outro. If you have a podcast with many episodes, this is a very easy way to optimize your podcast.

We've completely streamlined the Apple Podcasts submission process. Instead of managing multiple steps like creating Apple IDs, activating 2FA, and filling out forms, you can now submit your podcast with just one click. Podigee handles the entire process automatically, getting your show on Apple Podcasts faster and easier than ever before.

With Podcast Networks, you can consolidate your entire portfolio under one account, offering a single feed, a dedicated portfolio website, detailed analytics, and ad monetization across all your podcasts. Agencies and production companies benefit from centralized billing, streamlined team collaboration with shared access for multiple users, and efficient distribution to major podcast platforms like Apple, Spotify, and Amazon. Keep all your podcasts in one place – now available for all Business Pro plans.

The link to the podcast's site for the Podcast Addict platform inside the subscribe options was previously incorrect. This has now been fixed, ensuring that your listeners can subscribe to your podcast using Podcast Addict on Android devices.

If you have submitted one or more podcasts to Samsung, you might have already received an email from Samsung. Samsung Podcasts will close its services on December 1. Therefore, we have removed the possibility of submitting a podcast to Samsung. If you have any additional data on Samsung, you might want to export or save it. So far, we have no information about a new portal replacing it, so no action is required.

By incorporating these Podcasting 2.0 tags, your show becomes more discoverable and feature-rich, preparing your content for the next evolution of podcast distribution while enhancing the listening experience.

Our next Best Practice Webinar is coming up! Efficient podcast production: The best tips, tools, and shortcuts for your workflow. Sign up for free!

Enable Spotify Open Access to restrict podcast access based on your subscription system. Spotify Open Access (SOA) is a distribution layer for creators who offer paid content. It allows Spotify users to unlock and listen to content they paid for via third-party services: for example, podcasts with paywalled content hosted on Podigee. Podigee handles the technical implementation, allowing you to define both general and per-episode entitlements once your podcast is marked as protected. <br /> Note: Contact us to enable this feature.

New! The Podigee Mobile App for iOS and Android! Check your podcast statistics, fix typos, and publish new content on the go. Get it now for free in the App Store or Google Play Store. Manage your podcast anywhere and anytime directly from your smartphone.

We're excited to introduce our new transcript feature that seamlessly integrates with Apple Podcasts! Whether you use our AI-generated transcripts or upload your own, they'll be automatically exported to Apple Podcasts, making your content more accessible and searchable on their platform. Podigee automatically generates a full transcript for each new episode, saving you time and effort. Edit your transcript on the fly and enjoy automatic speaker recognition that accurately tags who's speaking, ensuring every detail is captured perfectly.

Our latest analytics upgrade, Listener Insights, provides deep insights into your podcast performance with real-time data and interactive visualizations. Alongside this, our updated Dynamic Ad Server pricing model offers a more transparent and effective way to monetize both new and existing content.

You asked, we deliver. Simply add your podcast chapter marks as usual and they will seamlessly appear on Spotify, letting listeners jump between chapters exactly as planned.

Finding the right advertising partners can be a tedious and time-consuming task. With the Podigee Ad Marketplace, we take that hard work off your shoulders and bring advertising partners to you. Focus on creating great content and delighting your audience while earning revenue.

Do you use Google or Microsoft 365 for your personal or business email? Now you can log into your Podigee account even faster. Just click one of the new buttons on the login page and go!

It's finally here! The next evolutionary step for your promotions – campaign management! We'll show you on September 21, 2022, at 5:00 PM, how to use the Ad Planner.

Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come! After two months of beta testing with lots of feedback (and some heavy development work), we're proud to say: The dynamic ad server is ready to use and waiting for you. Monetize your podcast better than ever!

Compare and analyze the data of all your podcasts in a single place. With only a few clicks, you can select which shows you want to look at or see them all combined.

Today we're launching the beta phase of our Dynamic Ad Server! The first group of testers gets activated. If you didn't get an email, don't worry: more accounts will be enabled in the coming days. Learn how to monetize your content more effectively in our blog post.

Dynamic ad insertion is key to effectively monetizing your content's reach. By dynamically adding and replacing ads, you can leverage your entire back catalog, swapping sponsor messages quickly—no more manual audio edits!

Podcast productions keep getting more complex—more people with different responsibilities get involved. We're excited to present a new feature that lets you assign roles and permissions as simply or as granularly as you need.

Thanks to all the beta testers and all your feedback, the intro and outro feature is now officially released. If you haven't tried it yet, check the "Intro & Outro" tab in your podcast. Need ideas on how to use it? See our blog!

For everyone already enjoying and benefiting from our Private Podcasts feature, get ready to love it even more. And for those who haven't tried it yet, here are two more reasons to start! You can now invite multiple users in one step and even add a custom personal note to each invitation.

Thanks to our launch partnership, you can submit your podcast to Samsung Podcasts now and gain more listeners. Go to your podcast's export tab, follow the instructions, or read more on our blog.

Tired of copying and pasting episode descriptions or shownotes from one episode to the next? We have something for you: "Text snippets" that you can reuse across episodes!

Discover the new design you can use for the podcast player on your website! Check out our blog post for more details.

We've worked with Podimo to make it even easier for you to grow and reach new audiences or even enable a new revenue stream. You can find all instructions in the "Export" tab of your podcast settings. This also neatly integrates Podimo into the Podigee web player.

We carefully improved your most important workflow in Podigee— publishing a new episode! Options like scheduling, notifications, and advanced features are now in one powerful dialog, helping you achieve more with fewer clicks.

Great news! With just one click, your podcast can be published on Amazon Music/Audible (once it fully launches). Read the full terms in your export tab and submit your show now. With over 55 million users on Amazon's platforms, you can expand your audience significantly.

Starting now, the date range you choose in the Analytics view is reflected in the page URL. This means you can bookmark or share a particular Analytics view easily.

Version 1.0 is now out: Gutenberg-compatible, consolidated settings under one menu entry in WordPress, plus bug fixes and more.

You can now use Headliner to turn your podcast episodes into short videos for Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

We did some heavy database lifting, and now download numbers from as far back as 2013 are visible in the Analytics dashboard.

Under "My Account" → "Minutes Log," you can now see when and how your encoding minutes have been used.

As part of a new agreement with Spotify, we now offer "Spotify Passthrough." This bypasses Spotify's usual caching mechanism, enabling dynamic ads for your show on Spotify.

Starting today, older analytics data is also available in the new dashboard. Click "more" for details on the new analytics.

How many listeners does your podcast have? Which categories or other podcasts interest them? Find out today in your Podigee dashboard with Listener Insights!

Available now for all users on Garage/Basic or higher! You'll find the overview under Podcast → Analytics → All Episodes.

The new analytics are now available for all users! Read more in our blog.

You can now assign your podcast to Apple's newly revised categories. Click "more" to learn how to update yours.

You can submit your podcast directly to Deezer from the Export tab. Check the link below for step-by-step instructions.