About us
We got a bandwidth bill that ended a show
Longform started after a friend's podcast was killed by its own best month.
Origin
Priced out of your own success
A documentary series we knew got recommended by a national newspaper. Two hundred thousand downloads in four days, and a hosting invoice eleven times the normal one. They stopped publishing. We thought that was an absurd way for a medium to work, so we built a host where delivery is simply not a variable.
- Unmetered on every plan since day one
- Measurement methodology published in full
- You can export everything and leave in an afternoon
First hundred shows
One server, one very large disk.
IAB certification
First independent host in the region to get it.
Dynamic ad insertion
Built after three networks asked the same question.
Transcripts for everyone
Included rather than an add-on.
Podcasting 2.0 namespace
Chapters, transcripts and funding tags.
18.4 PB a month
41,200 shows, still flat pricing.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.