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Podchaser: new features and launches

We confirmed 12 product launches from Podchaser since October 2020. The latest, Transcripts in episode search, became available March 19, 2025. We also record 1 funding round, 1 acquisition and 1 new company.

Updated . Launches from 2016 to March 19, 2025.

Podchaser, owned by Acast, sells a podcast database to PR teams and agencies. Podchaser Pro searches podcasts by reach, demographics and chart position, with role-tagged contacts and exports. An Alerts add-on monitors podcasts for mentions of a brand or topic, and sponsor history shows who advertises on each show.

Site
podchaser.com
Founded
2016
Category
Podcast booking
Status
Active
Price
demo-gated; Podchaser says most engagements start ~$5K/yr for independent consultants.

Every dated launch, newest first

  1. Transcripts in episode search

    Available March 19, 2025.

    Podchaser Pro searches the spoken words of nearly 10M episode transcripts across 150k English podcasts.

    Features: Media database, Media monitoring.

    Source: Podchaser (Transcripts in search).

  2. Tell Me Why

    Announced Dec. 14, 2024.

    AI assistant in Podchaser Pro that scores a podcast's fit against a user prompt and generates a tailored outreach pitch.

    Features: Pitch writing, Journalist research.

    Source: Podchaser Pulse (Beehiiv newsletter).

  3. Political Skew Filter

    Available Oct. 28, 2024.

    API filter that labels podcasts Left, Right or Neutral using AI models that read each show's content and recent episodes.

    Features: Media database.

    Source: Podchaser.

  4. Performance+

    Available Nov. 16, 2023.

    A recommendation engine that picks the podcasts likely to perform best for direct-response ad campaigns.

    Sources: Podchaser (Performance+), Podnews (press release).

  5. Airchecks

    Announced Oct. 12, 2023.

    Scans podcast episode audio to flag ad reads, brand mentions and competitor mentions for campaign verification.

    Features: Media monitoring.

    Source: Podnews.

  6. Predictive Demographics

    Announced Sept. 28, 2023.

    Predictive language modeling that analyzes a podcast's spoken language to predict its audience's age and gender.

    Features: Media database.

    Sources: Marketing Dive (press release), Podnews.

  7. Collections+

    Announced June 8, 2023.

    AI-powered tool that automatically sorts podcasts into verticals/collections for advertiser targeting, beyond manual classification.

    Features: Media database.

    Source: Podnews.

  8. Brand Watchlist

    Available April 3, 2023.

    Pro tool to track a brand's estimated podcast ad spend and which podcasts it sponsors, with a weekly email.

    Features: Media monitoring.

    Source: Podchaser (Brand Watchlist).

  9. Estimated Rate Cards

    Available Jan. 10, 2023.

    Podchaser Pro shows estimated pre-, mid- and post-roll ad costs on each podcast insights page.

    Features: Media database.

    Source: Podchaser (Estimated Rate Cards).

  10. Podchaser Alerts

    Available Nov. 30, 2022.

    Daily email alerts when a tracked keyphrase is mentioned in new podcast episodes, with the timestamp.

    Features: Media monitoring.

    Source: Podchaser (Podchaser Alerts).

  11. Acast acquires Podchaser

    Announced July 18, 2022.

    Acast announced acquisition of Podchaser for $27.2M upfront plus up to $6.8M in earn-out; deal closed Aug 1, 2022.

    Source: TechCrunch.

  12. Podcast Sponsors and Ad Spends (beta)

    Available April 28, 2022. In beta.

    Sponsor history and estimated ad spend for the top 5,000 podcasts and 1,000 brands, as a Pro add-on.

    Features: Media database.

    Source: Podchaser (Sponsors & Ad Spends).

  13. Podchaser raises $4M Series A

    Announced Jan. 19, 2021.

    Podchaser raised $4 million in a Series A round led by Greycroft to build out its podcast database.

    Source: TechCrunch.

  14. Podchaser Pro

    Available Oct. 27, 2020.

    A service for PR and ad professionals with podcast reach, contacts, demographics, a Power Score, notes and pitch lists across 1.4M+ podcasts.

    Features: Media database, Journalist research.

    Source: Podchaser (Introducing Podchaser Pro).

  15. Podchaser founded

    Announced 2016.

    Podchaser founded in 2016 by Bradley Davis and three co-founders as an "IMDB for podcasts"; Davis was based in Louisville, Ky.

    Source: Oklahoma OCAST news.

Methodology and corrections: what counts as a launch, how each one is checked, and how to report an error.

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Cite as: Newsprint, "Podchaser: new features and launches", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/podchaser/, updated 2026-10-28

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