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Podscan is a podcast monitoring and data platform that transcribes and analyzes millions of episodes as they are published, turning raw audio into searchable, structured intelligence. It was founded by developer and entrepreneur Arvid Kahl, author of "Zero to Sold" and "The Embedded Entrepreneur," after he struggled to find an affordable, reliable way to track mentions of key terms across podcasts for his own marketing work. What began as a personal side project grew into a dedicated platform once he realized how many teams faced the same blind spot, and it has since been built openly as a bootstrapped, transparency-first business that took on seed funding in 2024 to accelerate its roadmap. Plans run from $100 to $2,500 per month, with custom enterprise pricing above that.
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Product Range
The platform centers on real-time keyword alerts, full-text transcript search, and sponsor-mention tracking across more than 4.9 million monitored podcasts and 70 million tracked episodes. Higher tiers add audience demographics, brand-safety risk scoring, a Firehose API for streaming data at scale, an embeddable player, and add-ons for listener engagement metrics and bulk data exports. A REST API and MCP integration let developers and data teams pull transcripts, entities, and sentiment directly into their own systems.
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Customer Benefits
Every plan starts with a 10-day free trial and no credit card is required to sign up. Paying annually instead of monthly saves two months of billing on any plan, and recently founded or bootstrapped companies can qualify for 50 percent off their first year after a quick approval process. Teams that only need short-term access can instead buy a one-time Day Pass or Research Pass for full Premium-tier features without a subscription.
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Shopping Experience
Support is handled by email on the Premium and Professional plans, with priority email and live chat added on the top Advanced tier, and the team also offers hands-on integration help for larger accounts. Alerts and saved lists can be pushed into existing workflows through webhooks and tools like Zapier, IFTTT, and Make, and subscriptions can be upgraded, downgraded, or switched between monthly and annual billing at any time. Anyone on a paid team automatically gets full access, so members do not need separate individual subscriptions.
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Why Choose Podscan Inc
Few monitoring tools cover as much ground as Podscan, which tracks tens of millions of episodes with alerts that typically arrive within ten minutes of publication. Its combination of transcript depth, audience demographics, and GARM-based brand-safety scoring gives investment, PR, and brand teams primary-source insight that generic media-monitoring tools do not offer. Being built and run publicly by an established bootstrapped-business author also means the roadmap stays closely tied to real user feedback rather than a distant product team.
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