Podcast hosting

All podcast content on our platform is organized into a 3-layer hierarchy: Provider At the top is a provider, which represents the account that publishes the content. This is typically the name of the organisation. Streams Each provider can ...

Large publishers have several employees involved with publishing and managing their podcast content and others involved indirectly in reporting and monetising. Our platform supports several user roles aligned to the various type of tasks performed. ...

All podcast episodes published on our platform are made available as 3 quality profiles to end users. Different quality levels are employed to enable a better experience for users on slow (or expensive) internet connections while still allowing ot...

Archived episodes are only visible to content administrators and cannot be viewed or played by normal users. These episodes will never be displayed on our website, an RSS feed or an embedded player. Important Embedded p...

Our platform supports podcast episodes with very long durations, but special rules apply to episodes longer than 1 hour in length. Larger audio files impact both listeners and hosting infrastructure. With this in mind, the following rules apply to...

What are unlisted shows ? "Unlisted shows" is a feature that can be used to publish podcast content that is publicly available, but requires users to have the a direct link to the content page or listen via an embedded player. How is an unlisted...

To evaluate our podcast service or migrate an existing show to us, we can use the the RSS feed to import existing episodes into our platform. When we import episodes via RSS feeds the number of episodes imported is limite...

What is syndication ? We always recommend that publishers send users directly to their own website or app when driving listenership campaigns, but the podcast eco system consist of various large "syndicators" which can deliver podcast content from...

Our platform supports the Podcasting 2.0 namespace elements in our podcast feeds. What is the Podcasting 2.0 namespace ? It is a set of fields that can be included in RSS feeds to improve the richness of podcast syndica...

Using PodcastIndex Every podcast show (channel) can use the additional Podcasting 2.0 fields , but has to be listed on the public PodcastIndex directory to support: Podroll suggestions . A show can only be selected as a recommendation in the...

Using podrolls Podrolls is a Podcasting 2.0 features feature that allows a show to promote up to 10 other podcast shows. Only shows added to the PodcastIndex directory can be used as podroll items. When podroll...

How does it work ? Our platform uses the OpenAI "Whisper" model to automatically create transcripts from podcast audio. Machine learning technology applies neural network models to audio content to detect speech and convert it into text. Model...

Publishers can deliver their own baked-in ads and sponsorship messages without limitation, but opting in to our advertising features allows delivering dynamically stitched ads on all podcast files. Publishers can deliver ads on their own content for...

Using music in podcasts are only legal when you have the rights to do so . Uploading copyrighted material in your podcasts to which you do not have rights can lead to your podcast being removed from our platform, and we may remove the accounts of...

Third-party podcast trackers uses the HTTP redirect functionality so that any request for an audio file goes to their servers first, before redirecting back to our servers. This allows them to track when a file is requested by an end-user, while red...

When inactive content is shared on Facebook, it will pick up whatever is on our front page instead of the shared page. This is also cached by Facebook, so that even sharing again after the content has been made active will still show the incorrect...

This article describes how to move a podcast show from iono.fm to another hosting platform. We try to make it easy for our customer to migrate to another hosting platform, but please let us us know how we could improve our service if you do deci...

Publishers with compatible automation tools can upload audio files to an FTP location to publish them as podcast episodes. This is especially valuable for radio stations that publish short and recurring items as podcasts, for example: news, traffic ...

iono.fm does not engage in podcast creation services such as recording of audio content. For convenience, this page lists several of our customers, (in no particular order) that do provide audio recording and creation services. Disclai...