Podcast hosts: audience vetting without the guesswork

Where this starts

Podcast hosts skew audience vetting, for a reason specific to them. Start from this: podcast hosts measure their audience in downloads that only the host and the hosting platform can see, and audience vetting follows. On podcast hosts, audience vetting rarely catches this: no public number exists for podcast audience size, so every estimate is an estimate. If you would rather try it than read about it, Creator Profile Reader does audience vetting for podcast hosts today.

Traditional Search Tools

• Apple Podcasts and Spotify charts, for podcast hosts. Free, and chart position is the only public proxy for size.
• HypeAuditor. Audience quality scores and fake follower estimates per account, with demographic splits. The most cited tool for this check, priced per report or per month.
• Social Blade. Free history of follower and view counts on the main platforms. It shows a suspicious jump clearly and says nothing about who the audience is.
• Asking for native analytics. A screenshot of the creator's own dashboard is the only source of real demographic data. Ask for it every time, and expect a few to decline.
• Read the last twelve posts. Open the profile, note views, likes and comments on the last twelve posts, and divide by the follower count. Ten minutes per creator, and it catches most bought audiences.

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.

• Read Podcast Show Profiles From Apple and Spotify Ids

Mamba Labs Apify Actors

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• Creator Profile Reader1 preconfigured task on this page's job.