# Podcast monitoring and podcast data APIs compared

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/podcast-data/
Updated: 2026-10-26
Category: Podcast data
Map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/

8 companies on the social monitoring map.

Podcast data tools let you search what is said on podcasts. They transcribe episodes, alert you when a brand is mentioned and return show data such as audience estimates and contacts.

Listen Notes and Taddy sell podcast APIs. Podscan transcribes episodes and sends mention alerts. Podcast Index is an open directory with a free API key. Rephonic adds listener estimates and contacts.

## Podcast data

- [Audioscrape](https://www.audioscrape.com/): Audio intelligence layer: searchable corpus of about 38 million podcast episodes across 450K+ shows, 170,000 hours transcribed with speaker attribution; search by speaker or company mention. REST and hosted MCP. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-audioscrape
- [Listen Notes](https://www.listennotes.com/api/): Podcast search and metadata API (Listen API / podcastapi.com). PRO adds full episode transcripts for fetch. Publishes llms-full.txt and a coding-agent skill. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-listen-notes
- [Pod Engine](https://www.podengine.ai/): Podcast search engine and audience data: what is said in episodes, estimated listeners across audio and YouTube, brand mentions, chart positions, social metrics and AI content analysis, with a self-serve API and an MCP server. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-pod-engine
- [Podcast Index](https://podcastindex.org/): Open podcast directory API (search by term, episodes by feed). Free API key; MIT-licensed spec. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-podcast-index
- [Podscan](https://podscan.fm/): Podcast-intelligence service monitoring millions of podcasts, transcribing episodes, alerting on mentions, and exposing search, analytics, REST API, firehose, and MCP tools. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-podscan
- [PodZeus](https://www.podzeus.com/): Podcast sponsor intelligence and brand monitoring over about 7,500 ad-carrying podcasts and 196,000+ transcribed episodes: timestamped ad reads and promo codes, keyword and competitor alerts by email or webhook, transcript search, trends and a REST API. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-podzeus
- [Rephonic](https://rephonic.com/): Podcast audience and contact data with a developer API: listener estimates, demographics, searchable transcripts (45m+ episodes) with speaker IDs, sponsors, charts, contacts. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-rephonic
- [Taddy](https://taddy.org/developers): Podcast API with request bundles and included episode transcripts; webhooks on Business. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-taddy

## Other categories

- [Social listening suites](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/social-listening.md): 67 companies.
- [Mention alerts](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/mention-alerts.md): 31 companies.
- [Social analytics](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/social-analytics.md): 28 companies.
- [Listening agents](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/listening-agents.md): 25 companies.
- [Trend signals](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/trend-signals.md): 18 companies.
- [Creator analytics](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/creator-analytics.md): 44 companies.
- [Social data APIs and scrapers](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/social-data-apis.md): 42 companies.
- [Video and transcripts](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/video-monitoring.md): 35 companies.
- [Agent-first data and MCP servers](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/mcp-servers.md): 17 companies.
- [LinkedIn and people data](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/linkedin-data.md): 10 companies.
- [Podcast data](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/podcast-data.md): 8 companies. (this page)
- [Search APIs](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/search-apis.md): 9 companies.

## The full map

[The social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#cat-podcast-data): all 334 companies in 12 categories, open at this one.