Comments on: The Best Podcast Hosting Services Compared

By: Mike Russell

Mike Russell — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:10:44 +0000

That’s great to hear your confirmation. I will check out that thread too – looks like an interesting one – thanks Jonathan!

By: Jonathan Baillie Strong

Jonathan Baillie Strong — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:29:06 +0000

Thanks for clarifying that Mike, I’ve also followed that up with Spreaker and they agree that the clients podcasts would have to accept to be under your own brand name.

I also found some further discussion about Archive.org here, with a couple of points that hadn’t occurred to me before: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeffreyPowers/posts/eocRaMW6n6o?cfem=1

By: Mike Russell

Mike Russell — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:50:24 +0000

Thank you for the comment Jonathan and it’s very interesting to hear your experience with Archive.org especially as a backup option. I agree that you should certainly host/backup in more than one place. I’m throwing all my raw and produced podcasts into a Dropbox for Business account which is great as I have few size restrictions.

As for Spreaker being a great place to host multiple client podcasts it’s possible although I’m not sure the user experience was created with that use in mind. You’d need one overall account which could be either your name or your company name and those clients would need to be OK with the idea that they’d essentially be visible under your brand name. Also, remember there is currently a maximum total hosting limit, on the top paid plan, of 1,500 hours which is plenty but it could fill up fast if you had a few hundred clients

Let me know how you get on Jonathan!

By: Jonathan Baillie Strong

Jonathan Baillie Strong — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:39:40 +0000

Thanks for this episode, very insightful! I had no idea that that a solution to host multiple podcasts existed (Spreaker)…
Do you know if that work if I was running a podcast production service and wanted to host several client podcasts on one account?

I do have a different opinion about archive.org as a free solution – although I’ve heard a lot of people complain about the speed as well as saying that it’s a risky idea to host with them if they go out of business, my experience has been different – I haven’t been able to notice the difference in download speed between archive.org and other providers. For an example of a popular podcast hosted on archive.org, there’s the Daily Tech News Show by Tom Merritt https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/daily-tech-news-show/id790864884?mt=2)/.

As for whether or not they will be around for ever, archive.org been going since 1996 and you could say the same argument applies for any hosting provider – many paid-for solutions have folded and will continue to go out of business. I would suggest hosting your files on at least 2 servers (or backed up locally) at the same time to avoid this situation (using auphonic is a good way to make that process easy). So if, for say, you’re using spreaker, you could also back up files on archive.org for free, just in case.

By: Mike Russell

Mike Russell — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:40:11 +0000

Awesome list of essential places for podcasters to be Ileane. I didn’t think of Mixcloud for podcasting – that’s an interesting one!

By: Ileane

Ileane — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:33:43 +0000

Hi Mike,

I try to get my podcast found where ever there is a community surrounding the host. For example I use Spreaker like you and I’ve been with them from the start. They even interviewed me once upon a time.
But for my iTunes feed I use Libsyn. Here are a few other places you can find Ms. Ileane Speaks:
SoundCloud
MixCloud
audioBoom

Thanks for the list of hosts! Chat soon.