Captivate

Captivate is a podcast hosting platform founded by Mark Asquith under Rebel Base Media. It provides infrastructure for creating, hosting, and growing podcasts, serving individual creators, businesses, and organizations that manage multiple shows or networks. The platform supports unlimited podcasts on a single account and accommodates various formats including interview shows, solo podcasts, co-hosted programs, news podcasts, short-form content, storytelling, and private member podcasts.

The platform offers tools aimed at helping podcasters monetize their shows, build their brand, and grow their audience. It includes features for guest booking, interview management, and team collaboration through a dashboard built to handle multiple podcasts, networks, and team members. Captivate also provides IAB-certified download and audience statistics.

Captivate supports dynamic content insertion, allowing shows to alter audio content based on listener device, approximate location, or other derived data, which can be used for advertising or localized content. It serves both public podcasting use cases and private podcasting needs, such as internal business communications or client and member-only content. The platform is used by independent podcasters as well as businesses producing branded or client podcasts.