Gosh, I've been in the podcast space since early 2014, actually had a bi-weekly BlackBerry podcast called Upstream—which evolved into the official-unofficial podcast for BlackBerry with over a quarter million downloads and a diehard community).
Anyway all I'm saying is... I've tried almost every podcast hosting solution on the market over the past decade, from Castbox to Podbean to Soundcloud. Free and paid solutions (many of which have gone out of business when the VC capital ran out), even trying to simply use YouTube (you still need proper podcast hosting for an RSS feed to supplement that approach).
Transistor has been the only podcast platform that I haven't regretted getting onto after using for a couple years—in-fact, I'm still the happiest customer and supporter.
Their podcast Build Your SaaS (where they documented their entire journey transparently from the early days of just being an MVP) is what first put them on the map for me:
Original waitlist invite email from April 2018
What makes them different? Well, they were clear about not going the VC path (very much in-line with co-founder of Fathom Analytics, Paul Jarvis' Company Of One methodology).
Transistor has built a super impressive, yet clean and simply product, that gives you a super clean and modern podcast website as well (if you're actually investing in creating a podcast, don't half-ass your hosting/website, it's frustrating and obvious).
The custom podcast website that's automatically created for you
We still use Transistor to this day and plan on staying on them as long as they are around (which I'm willing to bet is going to be longer than most of their competitors) 🙂
