Longformsince 2016

Features

The whole toolkit

Hosting is the easy part. These are the pieces that actually take time to build.

Feed management

Schedule episodes, embargo them per territory, run seasons, publish trailers and bonus feeds, and roll back any feed change within 24 hours.

Ad server

Your own inventory or a marketplace. Targeting by country, app, device and listening history bucket, with frequency capping and competitive separation.

Transcription and chapters

Word-level timings, speaker diarisation and automatic chapter detection you can edit. Published as WebVTT and JSON.

Membership

Tokenised private feeds, Stripe-backed subscriptions, and a member portal you can host on your own domain.

Attribution

Prefix redirects for measuring third-party campaigns without letting anyone else count your audience.

Distribution

One-click submission to 19 directories, with the review status of each pulled back into the dashboard.

Against a per-download host

CapabilityLongformMetered host
Bandwidthunmeteredper GB or per download
Cost of a viral episode€0 extraoften 10–40× the plan
IAB v2.2 certifiedsometimes
Transcriptsincludedpaid add-on
Dynamic ad insertionincludedrevenue share
Private member feedspaid add-on
Data exportfull, any timevaries
Feed rollback