You build the audience, the platforms keep the data
Spotify and Apple hand you a download number, no detail, no first-party relationship you can own.
Springcast gives you first-party listener analytics you own, export, and build on.
Podcast platform for publishers & media
You build the audience. Stop letting platforms keep the data.
One platform for every show, across every title. First-party listener data you own, certified download metrics advertisers trust, and monetization built in, host-read, dynamic ad insertion, sponsorships. EU-hosted, so your audience data stays yours.
Sound familiar?
Five reasons media companies feel stuck in podcasting
Monetization lives in four different tools
Host-read in a spreadsheet, dynamic ads in an ad server, programmatic elsewhere, reports stitched by hand.
Springcast unites host-read, dynamic ads, and sponsorships. Sell once.
Ten shows across five brands is a nightmare
Each title has its own team, player, and feed, and you juggle logins, exports, and brand drift.
Springcast runs every brand from one platform: separate workspaces, roles per title.
Advertisers want certified metrics, not vanity numbers
Your team pitches reach; the advertiser wants certified downloads, and the deal stalls on trust.
Springcast gives analytics built to IAB guidelines your team can defend.
GDPR makes US ad-tech a liability
Post-Schrems II, your DPO flags every US ad-tech vendor and tracking pixel powering your monetization.
Springcast keeps listener data first-party and EU-hosted in the Netherlands.
See how publishers monetize on Springcast
First-party data, certified-style metrics, and monetization across every title. Explore listener analytics →
What's included
Built to own your audience and monetize it
First-party listener analytics
Retention, geography, device and behavior, data you own and export. Not a number on someone else's app.
Dynamic ad insertion (DAI)
Insert, swap, and target ads across the back catalog without re-uploading. Run each as a campaign with its own CPM, budget cap and revenue dashboard.
Episode micro-sites
An SEO-ready web home per episode, with player, show notes and transcript. Findable in Google, not just inside the apps.
Certified download metrics
Analytics built to IAB measurement guidelines. The numbers advertisers buy against.
Social attribution
See which listeners came from LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook, and prove channel ROI.
Multi-brand workspaces
One platform, many titles. Separate workspaces, separate teams, separate revenue views.
Branded players per title
Each brand its own embeddable, white-label player. No third-party branding.
Per-show branding
Player colors and logo per title. No Springcast badge.
Team roles & permissions
Admin, editor, contributor, viewer. Control who sees revenue, who publishes, per workspace.
EU data residency
Listener data hosted in the Netherlands. First-party. GDPR-friendly by design.
Monetization
Host-read, dynamic ads, sponsorships. Sell, deliver, and report in one place.
Monetization fragmentation is the daily tax on a media audio team. Three revenue mechanics, three tools, one painful month-end. Springcast consolidates them.
Host-read. Manage which placements run in which shows, schedule campaigns, and report delivery without a spreadsheet. The team books a sponsor and the platform tracks it.
Dynamic ad insertion. Insert, swap, and target ads across new episodes and the back catalog without re-uploading audio. That last part matters: a sold campaign monetizes your archive, not just this week's release. An episode from eight months ago keeps earning.
Sponsorship management. Book sponsors, track flighting, and produce delivery reports advertisers trust. The point isn't "we have ads." It's that your team sells once and the platform handles delivery and reporting across every title, so the commercial director stops doing arithmetic in a spreadsheet at 11pm on the last day of the month.
We'll be straight with you: Springcast is not a giant programmatic ad network. If you need a marketplace of demand, that's a different tool. What we give you is the machinery to deliver and report on the demand you bring, and the data to prove it worked.
See pricing →- ✓ Dynamic ad insertion across the back catalog
- ✓ Host-read placement management
- ✓ Sponsorship booking and delivery reporting
- ✓ Campaign reporting in one export
- ✓ Monetize new episodes and archive alike
Audience ownership
First-party data you own. Certified metrics advertisers trust.
Here's the whole argument on one line: on Spotify and Apple, you get a download count. On Springcast, you get an audience you can analyze, prove, and monetize.
First-party data. Listening behavior, retention curves, episode drop-off, geography and device, collected first-party, owned by you, and exportable via CSV and API. You can pull it into your CRM, your media kit, your audience-development planning. It's your data, not a borrowed number.
Certified metrics. Analytics built to align with IAB measurement guidelines. Downloads are deduplicated and filtered the way advertisers expect, so when your ad-sales team puts a number in a media kit, the buyer believes it. Verified reach closes deals that "trust us" never will.
Social attribution. See which listeners arrived from LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook. Now you can prove which channels drive listening and subscriptions, and decide where to spend your promotion budget. Editorial and commercial finally argue from the same data.
You own the relationship. When a listener subscribes, that's your audience, not a number rented from a consumer app. If you ever leave, the data and the subscribers come with you. That single fact changes how much your audience is worth.
Explore listener analytics →- ✓ IAB-guideline analytics
- ✓ Retention, geography and behavioral data
- ✓ Social attribution (LinkedIn / Instagram / Facebook)
- ✓ Exportable (CSV + API)
- ✓ First-party, EU-hosted
- ✓ You own the listener relationship
Scale
Every show. Every title. From one platform.
Media houses don't run one show. They run portfolios. A magazine group might have ten titles, each with a podcast, each with its own team and brand identity. Springcast is built for exactly that.
Multi-brand workspaces. Each title, or brand, gets its own workspace, with separate shows, teams, and revenue views. The sports-title team doesn't see the finance-title's sponsors. The food editor doesn't accidentally publish to the travel feed. Clean separation, by design.
Team roles. Admin, editor, contributor, viewer, scoped per workspace. Control who publishes, who reviews, and who can see revenue. A freelancer on one title never touches another.
Branded players per title. Every brand gets its own white-label embeddable player with its own colors and logo. No "Powered by Springcast" badge anywhere. Listeners see your brand. Always.
One contract, decentralized control. Centralized billing, one contract, one invoice, but each title runs its own audio operation day to day. This is the layer that turns "we have some podcasts" into "we run a podcast network." And it's the layer generic hosting tools quietly ignore.
Explore multi-workspace →- ✓ Separate workspace per brand or title
- ✓ Team roles scoped per workspace
- ✓ Branded player per title
- ✓ Per-show branding (player & page)
- ✓ One contract, decentralized control
- ✓ Revenue views isolated per brand
Honest comparison
How Springcast compares for publishers and media
An honest comparison on the criteria media companies evaluate. Megaphone, Acast, and Art19 are strong platforms, built around large ad networks and marketplaces. If your evaluation is about owning your data, controlling your brands, and avoiding lock-in, the picture looks like this.
| Feature | Springcast | Megaphone (Spotify) | Acast | Art19 (Amazon) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU data residency (Netherlands) | Yes | No (US) | Partial (varies) | No (US) |
| You own & export first-party data | Yes (CSV + API) | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Dynamic ad insertion | Yes | Yes (large network) | Yes | Yes |
| Large programmatic ad network | No (bring your own demand) | Yes | Yes (marketplace) | Yes (Amazon) |
| Host-read & sponsorship management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IAB-guideline metrics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Social attribution | Yes | Limited | Limited | No |
| Multi-brand workspaces | Yes | Enterprise tier | Limited | Limited |
| Branded player per title (no badge) | Yes | Limited | Ad-supported player | Limited |
| Custom domain | Not yet | No | No | No |
| No vendor lock-in (RSS redirect) | Yes (301) | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Pricing transparency | Public | Sales-only | Sales-only | Sales-only |
Where the others win: if you need a large programmatic demand marketplace, Megaphone and Acast are purpose-built for that, and Art19 plugs into Amazon's. Springcast isn't an ad network, it's the platform that gives you ownership of your audience, your data, and your brands, with the tooling to monetize the demand you bring. If owning the relationship matters more than renting the biggest marketplace, that's the trade we're built for.
Pricing
Priced for media. Transparent.
Business tier, from €195/month
For publishers and media houses running multiple shows across brands. First-party analytics, monetization tooling, multi-brand workspaces, branded players, certified-style metrics, dedicated support. Invoicing available. PO-friendly. All prices excl. VAT. 14-day free trial available.
See pricing →Custom network packages
For media organizations running many titles, or with specific SLA, audit, or integration requirements. We scale with your portfolio, not against it.
Good to know
Questions media buyers ask
Yes. Listener data on Springcast is first-party, collected by you, owned by you, and exportable via CSV and API. Use it for ad sales, audience development, and reporting. It is not locked inside a consumer app you don't control. Hosted in the Netherlands, within the EU.
Springcast analytics are built to align with IAB measurement guidelines. Downloads are deduplicated and filtered the way advertisers expect. We'll walk you through the exact methodology during the demo, so your ad-sales team can stand behind the numbers.
Yes. Dynamic ad insertion lets you insert, swap, and target ads across new episodes and your archive without re-uploading audio, so a sold campaign monetizes your whole catalog, not just the latest release. Targeting options (geo, show, listener segment) confirmed during the demo.
Yes. Each brand or title gets its own workspace, with separate shows, teams, revenue views, and branded players. One contract and invoice, decentralized day-to-day control. The sports team doesn't see the finance team's numbers, and a freelancer on one title never touches another.
No, and we're honest about it. Springcast isn't an ad network. If you need a large programmatic demand marketplace, Megaphone or Acast are built for that. What Springcast gives you is the tooling to deliver and report on the demand you bring, host-read, direct sponsorships, your own programmatic, with data you own.
Yes. Every title gets a white-label embeddable player (no Springcast badge) with its own colors and logo. Listeners see your brand, not ours. Custom domains are not available yet.
Yes. Data is first-party and hosted in the Netherlands. No reliance on US ad-tech pixels for core analytics. A full DPA is available. For a European publisher, that means the data you monetize doesn't become the data you have to explain to your DPO.
No lock-in. A standard RSS redirect (301) keeps your subscribers when you migrate. You export episode files in original quality, metadata, analytics history, and subscriber lists. Your audience is yours, including on the way out.
Yes. Metrics export into media kits and reports in formats ad-sales teams already use. Certified-style download numbers and retention data sit alongside social attribution, so the pitch becomes "verified reach," not "trust us."
Springcast attributes listeners to the social channel they came from, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, so you can prove which channels drive listening and subscriptions. It helps editorial and commercial teams decide where to invest promotion, with data instead of hunches.
Real podcasters. Real results.
What Springcast looks like in practice
"As a storyteller and content maker, you want to work as seamlessly as possible. Springcast makes that easy — so you can focus on your real work: telling stories."
Publishing without technical hassle, so all the attention goes to the story.
Martijn Aslander · Storyteller & content maker
"Our podcasts are now far easier to find on Spotify — and they’re being listened to more as a result."
The move to Springcast PRO was clearly guided, with transparent communication at every step. The PRO environment is clear and easy to use.
Gemeente Utrecht · Government
"With Springcast PRO, all our employees can listen to our internal podcasts even more easily."
Thanks to the migration service, our existing podcasts were converted quickly, so we could go live right away.
Kindergarden · Internal communications
Back catalog
Publishers on Springcast monetize their back catalog with dynamic ad insertion, not just new releases, turning an archive into recurring inventory.
Stop renting your audience. Own it. Monetize it.
First-party data you own, certified-style metrics advertisers trust, and monetization across every title, from one platform built in Europe.