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
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
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
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
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
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
Known gotchas
There is no publicly documented Spotify podcast publishing API that individual developers can use to create or update episodes — automation must go through your hosting platform's own API, which then syndicates to Spotify via RSS or the Distribution API
Megaphone is an enterprise platform and API access, pricing, and feature availability are negotiated per contract — public documentation is sparse and may not reflect what is available to your account tier
Spotify's Distribution API is for hosting platform operators, not for individual podcasters or developers — integration requires a formal partnership with Spotify
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