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Podcast Brands & Organizations


Podkind – Podcast Production by Cameron Stack

The Best Preamp by Cloud Microphones

The Best Microphone Arm by Elgato

Captivate – Acquired by Global Media & Entertainment Limited

Podpage by Brenden Mulligan

Consulting.fm by Podkind.co


Advertising & Growth

Ad Aures by Benjamin Bellamy

Ad Results Media by Marshall Williams, Russell Lindley, Steven Shanks, Kurt Kaufer, and Michael Kropko

AdLarge by Cathy Csukas

Adopter Media by Glenn Rubenstein

AdsWizz  – Acquired by SiriusXM

Audiohook by Jordan Bentley

Audiomy by Auddy

Audion by Arthur Larrey and Kamel El Hadef

DAX by Global Media & Entertainment Limited

Gumball by Headgum

Havas Edge by Havas Group

Libsyn Ads by Libsyn

Midroll  – Acquired by SiriusXM

Oxford Road by Dan Granger

PAR – Podcast Ad Reps – Acquired by Libsyn

PodcastClosing.com

Podcorn – Acquired by Audacy

Podmuse by Businesswise

Podnods (Known as Sounder.fm) by Sounder

PodSearchAD

Right Side Up by Tyler Elliston

Sesamy by David Goldhill

Sonic Integrated Marketing

The Radio Agency by Mark Lipsky

Voxnest – Acquired by iHeartMedia


Analytics & Measurement

Chartable – Acquired by Spotify

Claritas

Edison Podcast Metrics by Edison Research

Edison Research by Larry Rosin and Joe Lenski

OP3 by John Spurlock

Podsights – Acquired by Spotify

Signal Hill Insights by Jeff Vidler

SRDS by Walter Botthof and Alvin “Al” Beirnes

Veritonic by Scott Simonelli

Podcharts by Podchaser

Podscribe by Peter Birsinger

Podrover by Podchaser

Podtrac by Mark McCrery and Robert Freeland

Rephonic by James Potter

Sonnant by Tony Simmons

Veritone by Ryan Steelberg

Voxalyze by Alexis Hue and Marian Zange


Podcast Hosting & Publishing

Megaphone – Acquired by Spotify

Whooshkaa – Acquired by Spotify

Transistor by Justin Jackson

RSS.com by Alberto Betella and Benjamin Richardson

Podhome by Barry Luijbregts

Ausha

Buzzsprout by Higher Pixels

Castos by Craig Hewitt

Podserve by Tyler

Podbean by David Xu and Henry Zhang

Acast by Karl Rosander, Måns Ulvestam and Johan Billgren

Pippa – Acquired and Absorbed by Acast 

Art19  – Acquired by Amazon

Libsyn by Libsyn.com

Omnystudio – Acquired by Triton Digital & iHeartMedia

Captivate by Global Media & Entertainment Limited

Podcast Mirror by Blubrry by Blubrry

PowerPress by Blubrry by Blubrry


Marketing & Social Media

Fanlist by Pat Cheung

Barometer by Tamara Zubatiy and Grant Nelson

Kinzen – Acquired by Spotify

The Split Kit by Christine Weston

myWebLog

Usocial

PodLink – Acquired by Podsight, Spotify

Backtracks by Jonathan Gill and Kevin Wright

Podgagement by Daniel J. Lewis

VidIQ by Robert Sandie, Todd Troxell

TubeBuddy – Acquired by BenLabs


Content Creation & Editing Tools

Descript by Andrew Mason

Wavve by Calm Capital

StreamYard – Acquired by Bending Spoons

Headliner by Neil Moddy and Oliver Wellington

Riverside by Gideon and Nadav

Audacity by Muse Group, The Audacity Team

Episodes.fm by Doug Lasater

Restream by Alex Khuda, Andrew Surzynsky


Website & Design Tools

Podpage by Brenden Mulligan

PodcastPage by Tom

Hostlinger

Namecheap by Richard Kirkendall

Carrd by AJ

99Designs – Acquired by VistaPrint

Affinity by Ray Zhou and Shubham Goel


Productivity & Organization

AirTable by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas

Fathom Analytics by Jack Ellis and Paul Jarvis

Notion by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last

Trello – Acquired by Atlassian.com

Flightpath by Jon Fox

Manadge by Triton Digital


E-commerce & Business Tools

Shopify by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, Scott Lake

VistaPrint by Robert S. Keane


Newsletters & Publications

Beehiiv by Tyler Denk and Benjamin Hargett

Substack by Chris Best, Jairaj Sethi, and Hamish McKenzie

Directory.FM Newsletter by Directory.fm

Wav.plus by Cameron Stack

Wav.Plus – Podcast & Audio Job Board by Cameron Stack

Podnews by James Cridland

Podcast Business Journal by Podnews

Hot Pod – Acquired by Vox Media

Pod The North by Kattie Laur

Podcast The Newsletter by Lauren Passell

The Audio Drama Gazette by Anne Baird and Tal Minear

The Fiction Podcast Weekly by The Podcast Host

The Weekly Tweak by Ashley Hamer

The Squeeze by Skye Pillsbury


Media & Industry Publications

Podcast Magazine by Steve Olsher, Under New Management

Sounds Profitable by Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster

Inside Radio by iHeartMedia

Podnews Live by Podnews

EarBuds by Jason Fox

Great Pods by Imran A

Hurt Your Brain by Erik Jones

The End by Evo Terra

Vice Media by Shane Smith, Gavin McInnes and Suroosh Alvi

Radioinfo Asia by Steve Ahern

The Podcast Sessions by Rutendo Nyamuda


Awards & Recognition

Australian Podcast Awards by Haymarket Media Group

The Webby Awards by Tiffany Shlain and Maya Draisin Farrah

iHeartPodcast Awards by iHeartRadio

British Podcast Awards by Haymarket Media Group

The Podcast Awards by Todd Cochrane

Irish Podcast Awards by Haymarket Media Group

Independent Podcast Awards by whynow Media and Em McGowan

The Signal Awards by The Webby Awards

Canadian Podcast Awards by John Leschinski

Black Podcasting Awards by Lance John

Golden Crane Awards by Andrew Wang and AAP

Hot Docs Festival by the Documentary Organization of Canada

IDA Awards by Linda Buzzell

International Women’s Podcast Awards by Naomi Mellor

Latin Podcast Awards by Felix A. Montelara

Peabody Awards by the National Association of Broadcasters

The Ambies by The Podcast Academy

The Shorty Awards by Greg Galant, Adam Varga, and Lee Semel of Sawhorse Media

The Whickers by Alan Whicker

Third Coast International Audio Festival by Julie Shapiro


Industry Organizations

AudioUK – CEO Chloe Straw

IAB

The Podcast Academy by Hernan Lopez

Writers Guild of America by Allen Rivkin

Pew Research Center by Andrew Kohut


Discovery & Search Tools

PodScan by Arvid Kahl

PodHunt by Mubashar Iqbal

mowPod by Mike Wiston

PodRoll  by Ken Beyer and Jason Cox

Listen Notes by Wenbin Fang

Podcast Index by Adam Curry and Dave Jones


Monetization & Support Tools

Fourth Wall by Eli Valentin, Will Baumann, Walker Williams

Supercast – Acquired by Tiny Capital

Patreon by Jack Conte, Sam Yam

Tipeee by Michael Goldman, Samuel Nomdedeu, Laurent Rousselet

Buy Me A Coffee by Jijo Sunny, Joseph Sunny, Aleesha John

Ko-If by Nigel Pickles, Simon Ellington

Glow – Acquired by Libsyn

Value 4 Value Calculator


Merchandise & Print-on-Demand

Printify by James Berdigans

StickerApp by Henrik Huber, Hugo Ljungberg, Ludvig Persson, and Carl Bengtsson

StickerMule by Anthony Constantino


Finance & Business Services

Chase Freedom Card by JPMorgan Chase Bank & Co

Chase Ink Business (Cashback Card + $800 Bonus) by JPMorgan Chase Bank & Co


Podcast Players & Apps

Overcast by Marco Arment

Sovereign Feeds by Steven Bell

RSSBlue by Dovydas Joksas

3Speak.TV by Dan Hensley and Matt Starkerz

TrueFans by Sam Sethi

Podlove Podcast Publisher

Conshax by Pascal Mehrwald

Podchaser  – Acquired by Acast

Apple Podcasts by Apple

Spotify by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

YouTube by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen

YouTube Music by Google, Alphabet

Amazon Music by Amazon

Pocket Casts – Acquired by Automattic

Player FM by Maple Media

Audacy by Audacy, Inc.

iHeartRadio by iHeartMedia

SiriusXM by Liberty Media

Pandora  – Acquired by SiriusXM

Castro  – Acquired by Tiny Capital

Fountain by Oscar Diehl Merry and Nicholas Malster

Snipd by Kevin Smith, Ferdinand Langnickel, and Mikel Corcuera Lejarreta

Podverse by Mitch Downey

AntennaPod by Daniel Oeh

Podcast Addict by Xavier Guillemane

CurioCaster by Steven Bell

Breez by Roy Sheinfeld, Roei Erez, and Yaacov Slama


AI & Automation Tools

ArtsAI by Claritas

OpusClips by Young Z

GuestLab AI by Sharath Kuruganty

Snackable.ai  – Acquired by Amazon

PodcastAI by Edward Brawer

Podsqueeze by João Amaro

Podium by Ken & Paul

Magellan AI by Cameron Hendrix and Rex Madden

ElevenLabs by Piotr Dąbkowski, Mateusz Staniszewski

Swell AI by Cody Schneider

Wondercraft by Dimitris Nikolaou, Youssef Rizk and Oskar Serrander

Castmagic by Blaine Bolus and Ramon Berrios


Equipment & Hardware

RØDE by Peter Freedman, Freedman Group and RØDE

Sennheiser by Sennheiser family

Elgato by Corsair Gaming, Inc & EagleTree Capital

The Best Webcam by Elgato

Cloud Microphones by Rodger Cloud

Logitech by Daniel Borel and others

Zoom Recording Devices by Shareholders, Zoom Corp and Shunsuke Kudoh

Focusrite by Phil Dudderidge and Focusrite PLC

Equipment Guide by Setup.fm

Shure by Shure Inc

TASCAM by TEAC Corp, Yoshihisa Yamashita, Hiroshi Matsuo and Yoneo Rikimaru


Holding Companies & Corporate Entities

PODGO – Acquired by Libsyn

SiriusXM Media by SiriusXM

Maple Media by Michael Ritter

Automattic (Parent Company of PocketCast) by Matt Mullenweg

Higher Pixels (Owner of BuzzSprout) by Tom Rossi, Marshall Brown

Triton Digital by iHeartMedia

Businesswise by Vadi Efe

Haymarket Media Group by Lord Heseltine

ATRESMEDIA by José Manuel Lara Hernández and Fernando Lara Bosch


Specialized/Niche Tools

Podcast 2.0 Twitter List by Adam Curry and Dave Jones

Taddy Podcast API by Daniel Mathews

Musixmatch by Massimo Ciociola, Gianluca Delli Carri, Francesco Delfino, Giuseppe Costantino

Callin by – Acquired Rumble

MediaVault

PeerTube by Chocobozzz

BlogTalkRadio – Acquired by Spreaker

Steno.fm by Matt Davis

podStation by Mark Latham

PodBrowser by Inrupt Inc


Discontinued/Scrapped Services:

Stitcher – acquired & scrapped by SiriusXM

Google Podcasts – scrapped by Google

RadioPublic – acquired & scrapped by Acast

Breaker – shutdown (was owned by Maple Media)

Scout.fm – acquired by Apple (discontinued)

Pop Up Archive – acquired by Apple (discontinued)

Podcast Sins by Cameron Stack