Engage
Make an invite-only podcast for your employees or community.
Protect
Add or remove access on a user-specific level for total control.
Measure
Track how engaged your listeners are with detailed analytics.
Unique RSS Feed
Private RSS Feed
Private Embed Player
Secure Microsite
Explore the four methods of private podcasting
Embed your podcast on your intranet
The Authenticated Embed Player can embed podcast episodes to your organization’s intranet, employee portal, or a subscribers-only website. This method is highly secure and difficult to access.
Generate RSS feeds for every listener
Keep your podcast out of directories
Restrict listening to a secure microsite
We’ve had a great experience with Resonate—it’s allowed us to create a podcast that we can restrict to a known list of people, while still allowing them to listen in the same way as they do with all their other podcasts. This has been a huge boon to adoption, and Resonate made it possible.
Ian Varley, Principal Architect, Salesforce
How it works
Create a private show
Choose a professional hosting plan in Resonate, then upload your content and mark your show as private.
Invite listeners via email
Send invitations to the specific people who you want to access your show, generating a unique RSS feed for each listener.
Upload new private episodes
Upload new episodes for your listeners, and only your listeners, so they can privately enjoy the content in their favorite app.
Measure your engagement
See how many people are listening to your private podcast, manage access over time, and watch engagement numbers soar.
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Professional Hosting
Create a private podcast to create deeper connections with a trusted audience of people, and revoke access whenever you want.
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Each team member is fabulous! I have NEVER not had great response.
Carol Sanford, Host of Business Second Opinion
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Private podcast hosting FAQs
There are many excellent use cases for private shows. Here are a few:
- Employee Onboarding: Train new employees and foster healthy culture with onboarding and training courses.
- Town Halls & Team Meetings: Repurpose confidential content from organization town halls, team meetings, and calls.
- Sales Team Training: Train your sales team, share product updates and crucial information to the (mobile) frontlines.
- Organization Announcements: Keep your remote team aligned and engaged with announcements, updates, and messages from leadership.
- Monetize with Paywalled Content: Publish exclusive content like extended interviews, exclusive episodes, or a members-only podcast on your website.
- Take the University Classroom on the Go: Share lectures and other educational content to your students, and collect data for accountability.
- And so much more…
If you want to share information with a specific, trustworthy group of people, a private podcast is for you.
By definition, there is no such thing as a completely “private” podcast. Audio that can be downloaded over a network can be recorded and shared. But there is a spectrum of audio accessibility and privacy. Private podcasts are more protected and more difficult to access. Standard podcasts available in Spotify are the least protected and very easy to access with an app.
While even private podcasts can be recorded and shared in other mediums, there are strong limitations that can be set up to prevent that audio from being visible to people in the first place before they are able to record or distribute it separately.
Yes. Developers can use the subscribers API endpoint to manage their private podcast hosting subscribers. Read the full Resonate API documentation to learn more.
Private and internal podcasts are used for an incredibly wide range of purposes. Here are a few of the most common examples:
- Corporate or internal communications
- Paid subscriber-only content
- School and educational institution content
- Paid courses
