Megaphone

Megaphone is Spotify's enterprise podcast hosting and monetization platform, originally an independent company that Spotify acquired in 2020. Pricing starts at $99 a month and scales up from there for networks, broadcasters, and publishers with significant audience size.

Enterprise customers get a Technical Account Manager, 24/7 support, API access, and a Metrics Export Service for piping data into business intelligence stacks. The platform is designed for shows averaging 20,000-plus downloads per episode and assumes you have a real monetization motion behind your audio.

The killer features are dynamic ad insertion and the Spotify Audience Network. DAI lets you swap ads in and out of back-catalog episodes, target by geography, demographic, and listening behavior, and run campaigns that wouldn't be possible with baked-in ad reads.

The Spotify Audience Network gives Megaphone shows direct programmatic access to advertiser demand on the largest podcast platform in the world, which is genuinely valuable revenue for shows at scale. Analytics depth and ad reporting are about as deep as the category gets.

The trade-offs are obvious: Megaphone is not for indie podcasters or hobbyists. The $99/month entry point is the floor, real Megaphone customers spend significantly more, and the platform's complexity assumes a producer or ops person whose job is running it.

Spotify ownership also means the platform's optimization priorities skew Spotify-first, which matters less if you're a network with diversified distribution but more if you're a small show with primarily Apple Podcasts listeners. For networks and 20K-plus shows, it's the standard. For anyone smaller, save your money.