Hey all, I took a hiatus from podcasting during pandemic as it was all hands on deck for health care professionals. But I am bringing back one of my cancer podcasts.

I am looking around at the hosting world now (last podcast was on Libsyn for 5 years after picking it over Buzzsprout and podbean for features i liked and wanted at the time) and I see Spotify purchased Anchor FM

Spotify for Creators is free. so no monthly cost. it also lets you participate in a few Spotify programs that are limited to people who use it, unlike if you use Transister or Libsyn and then add your podcast to Spotify.

I did some googling, but spotify is so good at SEO almost all the hits come from them or posts on blogs clearly sponsored by them.

so whats the catch? what are the downsides? is there something in the Terms of Service I missed? is there people who have used it but had bad experiences?

I know some other services offer landing pages, but I dont need that. I can code and enjoy maintaining my own site anyway with full control and multi-page events etc. I did enjoy the ability to customize the player with libsyn for embeding on my site, but now there are so many javascript based players that can take any feed I dont think I am worried about that. but please do let me know about other missing features for why you wouldnt recomend spotify for creators.... else I think I am going to relaunch on there.

Is this the best distribution platform? What other platforms are y’all using? I am irritated already because I am unable to edit just the basic description of the show. Seems like a very basic thing lol I can change the name, the image etc.. but that description is NOT budging. So I’m annoyed and wondering what else there is that’s actually decent, but also, is this something anyone else has run into? I’m not tech illiterate either, it’s just so odd.