Podcast hosting platform for shows you sell in your own app
A podcast hosting platform on Flicknexs delivers audio shows inside your own branded site and apps, sold by subscription or per episode, with no RSS feed.
Flicknexs hosts audio shows as tracks, albums and playlists inside your own website and apps, sells them through your subscription plans and per-episode prices, and does not publish an RSS feed to any podcast directory.
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Quick answer: A podcast hosting platform stores audio episodes and delivers them to listeners. Flicknexs is a different kind of host: your shows play inside your own branded website and apps, behind your own subscription plans or per-episode prices, with no ad share. It does not generate an RSS feed and does not submit shows to podcast directories.
Flicknexs provides podcast hosting platform as part of its white-label OTT platform. Flicknexs hosts audio shows as tracks, albums and playlists inside your own website and apps, sells them through your subscription plans and per-episode prices, and does not publish an RSS feed to any podcast directory.
Why a podcast hosting platform on Flicknexs is not a directory feed
Start with what Flicknexs is not, because the phrase podcast hosting platform usually means a service that stores your audio, builds an RSS feed and pushes it to the big podcast directories. Flicknexs does not do that. There is no RSS feed generator in the platform code and no submission to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any other directory. If your whole plan is to be found in those apps and earn from dynamically inserted ads, you need a feed host, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What Flicknexs offers is the other half of the podcast business, the half those directories never give you.
That other half is ownership. On Flicknexs the audio module gives you tracks, albums, artists, categories, languages and playlists inside your own branded website and apps. An album works as a show or a season, a track as an episode. Every episode carries its own access rule: free, included in a subscription plan, or sold as a pay-per-view purchase. The listener signs up on your site, pays through your gateway, and listens in your app. You see who they are, what they finished, and what they paid, and no platform takes a cut of your revenue.
The technical shape of a directory podcast is set by the Apple Podcasts requirements page, which specifies the RSS tags, artwork sizes and audio formats a feed must carry to be accepted. It is worth reading even though Flicknexs does not produce that feed, because it shows what a directory listing is: a public file that anyone can subscribe to for free. A paid, private show inside your own app is a different product with different rules, and the same audio file can serve both if you keep a free public feed elsewhere and the full or extended show on Flicknexs.
What the audio module gives a podcast operator
Eight things the Flicknexs admin and apps do for a podcast that lives inside your own product. Nothing here involves an RSS feed or a directory.
Tracks as episodes
Upload each episode as an audio track with title, artwork, description, language and category.
Albums as shows
Group tracks into an album that stands for a show or a season, ordered by episode.
Artists as hosts
Create an artist record for each host or guest and attach it to the tracks they appear on.
Categories and languages
Tag each track with an audio category and a language from the admin catalogs.
Playlists
Build admin playlists for curated runs and let listeners keep their own playlists inside the app.
Per-episode access rules
Mark an episode free, include it in subscription plans, or set a pay-per-view price.
Subscriptions and pay-per-view
Sell plans and single episodes through the payment gateways you connect, with no commission taken.
Audio home page
A dedicated audio home page in the site and apps lists shows, artists, categories and playlists.
Source: Flicknexs platform documentation and architecture specification, 2026-09-03.
How podcast hosting works on Flicknexs, piece by piece
The audio module was built for music and spoken audio on demand. Here is how each piece maps to a podcast, and what the listener sees in your app.
An episode is an audio track with its own page
You upload the audio file in the admin, add a title, artwork, a description, a language and a category, and attach the artist records for the host and guests. The track gets its own page in the site and apps with a player, the description and the related tracks. Because it is a catalog item like any video, it also carries access rules and country rules of its own rather than inheriting a single setting for the whole show.
A show is an album, a season is an album too
Albums group tracks in order. The simplest mapping is one album per show, with episodes added to the end as they publish. Shows with distinct seasons can use one album per season and share the same artist and category so they sit together on the audio home page. The album page shows artwork, the track list and the artist, and a listener can play it from the top or pick an episode.
Hosts and guests are artist records
The artist record was designed for musicians, and it fits a podcast host without changes: name, photo, biography and the list of tracks they appear on. A network with several shows can give each host an artist page, and a guest who appears on three shows gets one page that collects all three appearances. Listeners who like a voice can follow the trail from one show to the next without leaving your app.
Access rules decide who hears what
Each track has an access setting: free, included in one or more subscription plans, or sold as a pay-per-view item with its own price. A common pattern is the first episode of a season free, the rest inside the plan, and a long bonus interview sold on its own. The setting lives on the episode, so changing a single episode never touches the rest of the show, and a free episode stays free when the plan price changes.
Playlists carry both curation and personal queues
Admin playlists let you publish a curated run, such as a starter pack of the ten best episodes across all shows, on the audio home page. Listener playlists let each account keep its own queue inside the app. Both are the same audio module feature, seen from the two sides of the product. There is no external subscription mechanism, because the listener account itself is the subscription.
The audio home page is your podcast storefront
The site and the apps include an audio home page that lists albums, artists, categories and playlists. For an operator who runs both video and audio it is a second entrance; for an audio-only operator it can be the front door. Shows, hosts and categories arrange themselves from the metadata you entered, so a new show appears in the right places as soon as its first track is published.
How to set up a podcast in the Flicknexs admin
Five steps, in order, from an empty audio section to a paid show. Do the first four with a test episode before you publish a real one.
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Create the categories, languages and artists
Open the audio section of the admin and add the categories your shows belong to, the languages you publish in, and an artist record for each host. Do this before uploading any audio, because a track picks from these lists and a track saved without them is harder to find later on the audio home page.
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Create the album for the show
Add an album with the show name, the show artwork and a description. Attach the host artist. If the show runs in seasons, decide now whether each season becomes its own album; it is easier to create the structure first than to move tracks between albums after they have listeners and playlists pointing at them.
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Upload the episodes as tracks
Upload each episode audio file as a track, give it the episode title, episode artwork if it differs from the show, the description with any show notes, the language and category, and attach it to the album and the artists. Check the order inside the album so a listener who presses play on the album hears episode one first.
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Set the access rule and price on each episode
Open each track and choose free, subscription plans, or pay-per-view with a price. Set your free sampler episodes to free. Assign the paid episodes to the plan that should include them. If you sell a single episode, enter its price and check it in a test purchase through your connected gateway before publishing the album.
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Publish, then check the audio home page and playlists
Publish the album and the tracks, then open the audio home page on the website and in a device app. Confirm the show appears under its category and artist, that the free episode plays without login and the paid one asks for a plan or purchase. Build an admin playlist if you want a curated entrance for new listeners.
Limits, tradeoffs and what podcast hosting on Flicknexs does not do
Read this section before you move a show. Each item is a real gap, stated as it is.
No RSS feed and no directory submission
The platform code does not generate an RSS feed and does not submit shows to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any other directory. Listeners cannot subscribe to a Flicknexs show from a general podcast app. If discovery in those apps matters to you, keep a free public feed on a feed host and use Flicknexs for the paid, extended or ad-free version of the same show in your own app. The two can coexist; Flicknexs does not replace the feed.
No offline listening
Episodes stream from the delivery layer when the listener presses play. There is no download for offline listening in the web player or in the device apps. For a commuter audience that listens underground or on flights this is a real limitation, and you should say so in your own help pages rather than let listeners discover it. Streaming does keep every play inside your access rules and your analytics.
No dynamic ad insertion for audio
The advertising features in Flicknexs, ad tags and server-side ad insertion, are built for video and for linear channels. There is no dynamic ad insertion into audio episodes and no ad marketplace. If sponsorship is your revenue model, the sponsor read is baked into the file as it is on most shows today, and the money from listeners comes from subscriptions and pay-per-view rather than from ads.
Podcast analytics are platform analytics, not directory downloads
You get player sessions with watch time and completion, device breakdowns, and revenue reports by month from the video analytics module, and they cover audio plays inside your app. You do not get download counts in the form podcast advertisers expect, because there are no feed downloads. Sponsors who want a standard download figure need a feed host; subscribers and buyers are what Flicknexs measures.
The vocabulary is music vocabulary
The audio module names things albums, artists and tracks. Your listeners see the labels you give the items, so a show reads as a show, but you will work with music terms in the admin. This is cosmetic, and it is mentioned so nobody expects a screen labeled Podcasts. The structure underneath, ordered items in a collection with a creator record, is what a podcast needs.
A worked example: a business interview network with three paid shows
A realistic operator: a small network that runs three interview shows and wants to sell a members tier without giving a share to a directory.
The network keeps its three shows on a free feed host for discovery, with a short public edit of each interview. On Flicknexs it publishes the full-length interviews, an extra members-only question round, and a monthly live call. Each show is an album, each host an artist, and the members-only tracks sit inside one subscription plan. The first full episode of every show is set to free so a visitor who arrives from the public feed can hear the difference before paying. Everything is uploaded from the admin in an afternoon by one producer.
The network starts on the plan with phone apps, because its listeners are on phones. F2 Super includes 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly, and adds native Android and iOS mobile apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Plans are flat fees and Flicknexs takes no commission on your revenue; payment-gateway fees are between you and your gateway. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Members pay through the gateway connected on the payment gateways page, and the monthly subscription report shows what came in.
Six months in, the network adds a pay-per-view archive: the earliest hundred interviews, sold as single episodes for people who do not want a plan. Those tracks get a pay-per-view price while the current season stays inside the subscription. The audio home page lists the archive as its own album, an admin playlist called Start Here collects ten strong episodes across the three shows, and the analytics report shows which hosts drive the most listening hours, which decides where the next show goes.
Pre-launch checklist for a show on Flicknexs
Run this list on a test show before you tell listeners anything.
- Categories, languages and an artist record for every host exist before the first track is uploaded.
- One album exists per show or per season, with artwork sized to look right on the audio home page.
- Every track has an episode title, description, language, category, artist and album, and the album order is correct.
- Sampler episodes are set to free and a logged-out visitor can play them on the website.
- Paid episodes are assigned to the right subscription plan and a test account in that plan can play them.
- Any single-episode pay-per-view price has been checked with a real test purchase on your connected gateway.
- Your help page tells listeners plainly that shows play inside your app and are not in podcast directories.
- Your help page states that episodes stream and are not downloadable for offline listening.
- The audio home page shows the show under its category and artist on the website and in one device app.
- The monthly subscription and pay-per-view revenue reports in analytics show your test purchases correctly.
How podcast hosting fits the apps and your revenue
Audio inside Flicknexs uses the same apps, plans and gateways as video, so the rest of your product applies to it.
Every plan includes the website; the Android and iOS apps arrive with F2 and the television apps with F3 and above. A podcast audience mostly listens on phones, so the phone apps are the ones that matter, and the audio home page, album pages, artist pages and listener playlists all appear inside them. The audio streaming platform page describes the same module for music and radio, which is useful if you plan to mix spoken shows with music or a scheduled audio channel. The ott app builder page explains how the apps are branded and published under your own name.
On the revenue side, a podcast on Flicknexs earns from subscription plans and pay-per-view episodes through the gateways described on the payment gateways page, and the coupons and discounts page covers promotion codes for a launch offer on Stripe checkout. Because there is no ad share and no commission, the price a listener pays is the price you keep, minus the gateway fee and, for purchases made inside the store-billed apps, the store fee set by that store. The video paywall page explains free-preview and per-title rules in more depth; they apply to audio items in the same way.
Which plan includes podcast hosting
Standard layers
The audio module, with tracks, albums, artists, categories, languages, playlists and the audio home page, is part of every plan, from the web-only Professional plan to F4 Enterprise. Subscription plans and pay-per-view prices on audio items are part of every plan as well. F1 Standard is the web-only plan, with 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. That is the entry point for a show that lives on your website only.
Pricing & billing
F2 Super includes 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly, and adds native Android and iOS mobile apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. For most podcast operators this is the plan to start on, because it is the first with phone apps. F3 Premium includes 1 TB of storage and 10 TB of bandwidth monthly, and adds Android TV and Fire TV apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Plans are flat fees and Flicknexs takes no commission on your revenue; payment-gateway fees are between you and your gateway. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details.
Annual savings
Yearly billing on F1 to F4 costs less per month than monthly billing; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Storage counts the audio files you upload; bandwidth counts the streaming your listeners do, and audio files use far less of both than video, so the allowances on our pricing page go a long way for a spoken-word catalog.
Conclusion: what to do next
Already on Flicknexs
If you already run Flicknexs for video, open the audio section of the admin, create one category, one language and one artist, and upload a single test track into a test album. Play it on the website and in your phone app. That half hour tells you whether the audio home page and the album layout suit your show before you plan a launch or move a catalog.
Choosing a platform
If you are choosing a host, decide first which half of the podcast business you are buying. A feed host gets you into directories and sells ads. Flicknexs gets you a paid show inside your own apps with your own subscribers. Many operators need both and use them together, with a public feed for discovery and Flicknexs for the paid product. Ask any vendor which half they do, and expect a plain answer.
Before a rights call
Read the companion pages before you decide. The audio streaming platform page covers the same module for music and online radio. The audiobook page describes long-form paid audio, which shares most of the mechanics. The payment gateways page and the video paywall page explain plans, per-item prices and free-preview rules, and the ott app builder page shows how the apps are branded.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about podcast hosting on Flicknexs.
Every plan includes the audio module, so the cost is the plan. F2 Super includes 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly, and adds native Android and iOS mobile apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. There is no per-download charge and no ad share.
No. Flicknexs does not generate an RSS feed and does not submit shows to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any other directory. Instead you get a show that plays inside your own branded website and apps, behind your own subscription plans or per-episode prices, with your own listener accounts and no ad share. Keep a feed host for directory discovery.
Yes. Each episode is an audio track with its own access rule: free, included in one or more subscription plans, or sold as a pay-per-view purchase with its own price. Mix them within one show, for example a free first episode, a subscription season and a bonus interview sold on its own, and change any episode alone.
No. Episodes stream from the delivery layer when a listener presses play, on the website and in the device apps, and there is no offline download. State this on your help page so commuters and travelers know before they subscribe. Streaming keeps every play inside your access rules and your analytics.
Use albums. One album per show is the simplest structure, with episodes added in order; shows with distinct seasons can use one album per season sharing the same artist and category. Each host or guest is an artist record attached to their tracks, so a network with several shows gets host pages that collect appearances across shows.
Yes. The audio module has admin playlists, which you publish on the audio home page as curated runs, and listener playlists, which each account keeps privately inside the app. A new listener can start from your curated starter pack and build a personal queue from any episodes they are entitled to hear.
Flicknexs has ad tags and server-side ad insertion for video and linear channels, not dynamic ad insertion into audio episodes. A sponsor read baked into the audio file works as it does anywhere. Listener revenue on Flicknexs comes from subscription plans and pay-per-view purchases through your own gateway.
Player sessions with listening time and completion rate, device and platform breakdowns, logged devices per account, a watch-hours report per user, and subscription and pay-per-view revenue reports by month. You do not get directory download counts, because there is no feed; what you measure is subscribers, buyers and how much they listen.
Yes. Geo-fencing works platform-wide and per title, and audio items carry their own block or allow country lists. A viewer country is read from the request IP through a geolocation lookup, so a licensed-territory show can be limited to those countries while the rest of the catalog stays open.
The audio home page, albums, artists and playlists are part of the site and the apps, including the Android TV and Fire TV apps on F3 and above. Most spoken-word listening happens on phones, so plan around the Android and iOS apps first and treat television as a bonus for a living-room audience.
Yes, and it is the pattern that fits most operators. Keep a short or ad-supported public edit on a feed host for directory discovery, and publish the full, extended or early episodes on Flicknexs behind a plan. Link from the public show notes to your Flicknexs site so listeners who want more know where to go.
Storage and bandwidth are the practical limits, and the allowance for each plan is stated on our pricing page. Spoken-word audio files are small compared with video, so a long back catalog of hour-long episodes fits comfortably in the storage on the plans with phone apps. Check our pricing page for the exact allowance.