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Private Podcast Hosting Software

Craft company culture with a private podcast

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.

Private Podcast Hosting Features

Choose from four levels of privacy and accessibility

Unique RSS Feed

Get a unique RSS link for every subscriber, so you can grant and revoke access whenever you like.
  • High privacy, high accessibility

  • One unique RSS feed per user

  • Listen in your favorite podcast app

  • Invite users via email

Private RSS Feed

Prevent Apple and other directories from indexing your podcast.
  • Low privacy, high accessibility

  • One RSS feed for all users

  • Listen in Apple Podcasts or your favorite app

Private Embed Player

Embed episodes to your intranet, employee portal, or subscriber-only website.
  • High privacy, low accessibility

  • No RSS feed

  • Listen via embed player only

Secure Microsite

Ask listeners to create a password-protected account on Resonate before accessing your podcast microsite.
  • High privacy, low accessibility

  • No RSS feed

  • Listen via microsite only

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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

This method generates a unique RSS feed for every single subscriber of a podcast. It gives the creator full control to grant and revoke access to users after your podcast has been published.
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Keep your podcast out of directories

This method notifies podcast directories like Apple, Spotify, and Amazon not to index your podcast. Anyone with your feed link can subscribe to the show in their favorite podcast app, making this great for shows who want some light privacy, but aren’t concerned if a friend-of-a-friend can hear the show.
Private RSS Feed (No-Index)

Restrict listening to a secure microsite

Restricted Subscriber Microsite’s make listeners create a password-protected account on Resonate before logging onto your podcast microsite. This option logs all of the data from the Resonate Embed Player and keeps your audio off of all other platforms.
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Ian Varley, Principal Architect of SalesForce

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

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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.

Book a call to get a custom quote.

  • Unlimited Episodes

  • Unlimited Downloads

  • Analytics Dashboard

  • Detailed Embed Player Analytics

  • Embed Player

  • Live Chat, Slack, and phone support

  • Private Slack Channel with Resonate Team

  • Premium Podcast Microsite Themes

  • Dynamic ad insertion

  • Embed player branding removed

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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


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