Podcast hosting
Upload your episodes and we keep them, build the RSS feed, and serve every download to the people listening in Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the other podcast apps. You choose who pays for that: our advertisers, or you.
On the Free plan each episode carries a few short ads from our network, and those ads are the reason it costs nothing. The Podcast and Network plans carry none of ours. If your show has sponsors of its own, those two plans are also where you sell them into your episodes.
Plans and prices
All three publish the same feed, to the same apps, from the same servers. What changes is how many shows you run, how much audio you keep, and whose ads your listeners hear.
Free J700
$0a month
No setup fee. Short ads from our network play in your episodes.
Podcast J701
$9a month
Or $90 a year, which saves $18.
Network J702
$29a month
Or $290 a year, which saves $58.
Every plan: no cap on downloads, under fair use, and no setup fee. Paying for a year costs ten months, on Podcast and on Network.
Ads, both kinds
Free hosting is paid for by short ads from our network. We set how many there are, the same for every free podcast, and they cannot be switched off. They go in when an episode is downloaded, so you never edit them into your audio and they never stay in your files.
If your listeners should hear no ads but the ones you choose, the Podcast plan at $9 a month takes ours out.
Free plan, per episode
On the paid plans the ad slots are yours to sell. The spots are put into each episode as it is downloaded, so a campaign you book today plays in everything already published and stops on its end date.
A pre-roll, mid-rolls at the episode's breaks and a post-roll. Add break times to an episode, or have one placed every so many minutes, in a pause in the speech.
A sponsorship plays in every download it is sold for. A standard campaign works towards an impression goal, paced evenly to its end date or as fast as it can. House promos fill the slots nobody bought.
Pick the podcasts and the countries, cap how often one listener hears a campaign in a day, set priorities and weight spots against each other. Two campaigns from the same advertiser never share a break.
Every spot is brought to -16 LUFS, the loudness podcasts are mixed to, so an ad never jumps out.
One counts only when a listener was sent the whole spot, and once per listener, break and episode in a day.
On Network each advertiser gets a printable report of their campaign, ready for the sponsor who asks what they paid for.
Apple Podcasts and Spotify
Your show gets one RSS feed, carrying the tags Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podcasting 2.0 apps read. Each directory needs to be told about it a single time; from then on every episode you release reaches subscribers on its own, a few minutes after it goes out.
Name, description, square artwork between 1400 and 3000 pixels, Apple Podcasts categories, language, the owner's name and email, and a support or donation link if you have one.
Upload the audio and write the show notes, with clickable links, season and episode numbers, a type (full, trailer or bonus) and an explicit flag. On Podcast and Network add chapters and a transcript, and schedule the release; on Free, publish now or pick a date.
Follow the links in the panel to each directory. New episodes need nothing more from you.
Moving a show
Give us the RSS address of the show at your current host and we import it, on any plan, Free included. There is nothing to download and upload again by hand.
Download statistics
We follow the IAB podcast measurement guidelines: one app on one device that fetches at least a minute of an episode, or all of a shorter one, counts once in a day. Crawlers and repeat fetches are left out, and no listener's IP address is stored.
On every plan
The cheaper plans are not a cut-down feed. These come with all three.
A show that suddenly finds an audience is not billed for it. Downloads are unlimited under fair use.
Upload as long as you keep making it, up to 2,000 episodes per show, within your plan's storage.
A public page on serverroom.net with your artwork, description and every episode with its notes, plus subscribe buttons for Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro and AntennaPod, and one that copies the feed address.
Back 15 seconds, forward 30, a choice of speed. Copy its iframe code from the panel and paste it into any web page.
Newest first, or in order for a serial. Lock the feed, mark the series complete, or hide it from Apple.
Episodes are stored and served from our servers in New York. There is no third-party host behind the feed.
For radio stations
The Premium and Platinum radio plans include podcasting and podcast ads. Any show in the station's Programs tab can be published as a podcast, each episode cut without its station breaks, and a recorded live show becomes an episode in one click.
Answers
Yes: $0 a month and no setup fee, for one show with 10 GB of storage. It is paid for by short ads from our network, which play in your episodes.
Short spots from our network: one before the episode, and one at each of its breaks, or every 15 minutes in a pause when the episode has none. Nothing plays after it ends. They cannot be turned off on Free; the Podcast and Network plans carry none of our ads.
On Podcast and Network, yes. You set up campaigns for your sponsors and the spots are inserted when each episode is downloaded, before it, in its breaks or after it. Network adds a printable report for each advertiser. The Free plan's slots belong to our network.
Free is $0. Podcast is $9 a month or $90 a year, for 3 shows and 50 GB. Network is $29 a month or $290 a year, for 20 shows and 250 GB. No plan has a setup fee.
Submit your feed to each of them once, with the links in the panel. For Spotify you sign in with a Spotify account and enter the code it emails to the owner address in the feed. For Apple you add the feed in Apple Podcasts Connect, signed in with an Apple Account. After that, new episodes show up in the apps by themselves.
Yes, on every plan. Give us the RSS address of the show where it is now and we import it.
Up to 2,000 episodes per show, within the plan's storage. Downloads have no cap, under fair use.
To the IAB podcast measurement guidelines: one app on one device fetching at least a minute of an episode, or all of a shorter one, counts once a day. Crawlers and repeat fetches are left out, and no listener's IP address is stored.
No. These plans are for podcasts alone. If you do run a station on our Premium or Platinum radio plan, podcasting is already part of it.
Start on Free at $0 and keep it there, or take our ads out from $9 a month.