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Universities don't work like companies. They're federations. Each faculty, research group, and student organization operates semi-independently, with its own brand identity, its own communication goals, and its own ideas about how a podcast should sound.

Springcast's workspace model maps directly to that structure. One workspace per faculty, program, or student organization. Each workspace is independent: its own episodes, its own team, its own branding, its own analytics. The business school's thought-leadership series lives next to the nursing faculty's training recordings, and neither team touches the other's content.

At the institutional level, central comms or IT can be added to each workspace with a read-only role for reporting, per show where needed. Billing stays centralized, so finance gets one invoice instead of eight, with a split per PO when a faculty needs its own.

Adding a new department podcast is simple: create a workspace, invite editors via institutional email or SSO, and set up the show's branding. No IT ticket required. When a visiting researcher or student intern needs temporary access, a guest role scoped to a single show does the job, and you remove it when the collaboration ends.

A university of applied sciences with 8 departments runs a podcast per department, each with its own team of 2-3 editors and its own branding, central comms is added to each workspace with a read-only role, on one invoice with a split per PO where a department needs its own. A research consortium where 4 universities collaborate on a science communication podcast gives each university editor access, the lead institution the owner role, and guest access for external experts.

When students listen to a course podcast, their listening behavior is educational data. It deserves the same protection as their grades, their attendance records, and their personal information.

Most free podcast platforms monetize through advertising and listener profiling. When your students press play on Spotify for Podcasters, their listening habits feed an advertising model. Their behavioral data is collected, aggregated, and used to sell ads. That's not compatible with an institution's duty of care.

Springcast is a paid platform. There's no ad layer. No listener profiling. No behavioral targeting. No cookie wall. No login required to listen.

All data is hosted in the Netherlands. No transatlantic transfers. No sub-processors outside the EU for core functionality. When your privacy officer asks where student data goes, the answer is: it stays in the Netherlands and we don't collect individual student identifiers. Analytics are aggregate only. Total listens, geography, device. Not "student #4721 listened to episode 3 at 14:32."

A signed Data Processing Agreement is available. A real DPA, not a terms-of-service page buried three clicks deep. Specific, references your institutional controller status, and designed for education.

Your institution decides the distribution model per show. Public RSS for open lectures. Unlisted for course content (link-only access). Private with authentication for restricted material. A student association podcast can be fully public while exam-prep content stays behind a direct link.