Assess Spotify for Creators and Megaphone API availability for podcast publishing automation

Steps

1. Understand the platform distinction: Spotify for Creators (formerly Anchor) is the self-serve hosting tool for individual podcasters, while Megaphone is Spotify's enterprise podcast publishing and monetization platform — they have separate interfaces and different API availability
2. For Megaphone: Megaphone provides a publisher-facing web interface and has limited public REST API documentation; enterprise customers can inquire about API access through their Megaphone account team — there is no publicly documented self-serve API for episode publishing as of mid-2026
3. For third-party hosting platforms connecting to Spotify: Spotify activated a Distribution API in mid-2026 allowing participating hosting platforms (including Libsyn, Podigee, Audioboom, and others) to publish video and audio directly to Spotify — access is granted at the platform level, not to individual podcasters
4. For Spotify for Creators users, no public API for episode publishing or management is available — all management is through the web dashboard or the Spotify for Creators mobile app
5. For RSS-based distribution: any podcast host that generates a valid RSS feed with enclosure tags can submit the feed to Spotify via the Spotify for Creators dashboard — Spotify ingests the feed and reflects new episodes automatically after approval
6. For programmatic ad insertion on Megaphone: Megaphone's Streaming Ad Insertion (SAI) product enables dynamic ad delivery; advertising integration is managed through Spotify's ad stack and direct sales channels, not a public API