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Podbean

Who runs Podbean, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest podcast hosting alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Captivate

Measured from Podbean’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Podbean

Podbean podbean.com

Podbean podcast hosting and monetizing platform helps you start a podcast. All the tools you need to create, promote and monetize your podcast.

Wikidata: podcast hosting service

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Podbean tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

More than all 16 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 7 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS
Marketing and email tracking

Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
- HubSpotUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Podbean

Fewer trackers than Podbean No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Podbean match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Podbean adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 18 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 38 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js
CSS & UI: Bootstrap asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap/5.1.3/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js
Fonts: Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag('config', 'AW-
Microsoft Advertising UET page source: bat.bing.com/bat.js
X (Twitter) Pixel page source: static.ads-twitter.com/uwt.js
Marketing automation: HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
Live chat & support: Freshworks TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sendgrid…
CDN: cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lazysizes/5.3.2/lazysizes.min.js
Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630ef8990652d8-HAM
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Email delivery: Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sendgrid…
SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:sendgrid…
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS fred.ns.cloudflare.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=NCt9Rrxp9sG6TMOZ
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=SQWa5rdBQaxJejqd8YebIC9qXpPDzXLcwY00QfJojK8

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.