The roster monitoring question for podcast hosts

The problem

Podcast hosts complicate roster monitoring, for a reason specific to them. Podcast hosts measure their audience in downloads that only the host and the hosting platform can see, which shapes roster monitoring. Worth knowing about podcast hosts, since roster monitoring inherits it: no public number exists for podcast audience size, so every estimate is an estimate. There is 1 runnable example of roster monitoring for podcast hosts below.

Traditional Search Tools

• Apple Podcasts and Spotify charts, for podcast hosts. Free, and chart position is the only public proxy for size.
• Social Blade. Free daily history of follower counts for public accounts. It tracks numbers and nothing about links, managers or newsletters.
• Influencer CRMs such as GRIN or Upfluence. They track the creators you already work with, inside their own workflow. Priced for brands running a program, and they watch what their own data model holds.
• A shared spreadsheet. Free and familiar, and only as current as the last person who opened every profile.
• Recheck the list on a calendar. Open every profile on the roster once a month and compare it with last month's sheet. It works for thirty creators. At three hundred it is a part time job and the changes still get missed.

Preconfigured tasks

A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.

• Track Podcast Shows for Newsletter and Link Changes

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• Creator Change Monitor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.