Best podcast hosting for marketers

There are roughly 20-30 serious competitors in the podcast hosting space, but only 5-7 of them explicitly target marketers as their primary user. The common failure mode is building for podcasters first and marketers second—this creates bloat around production tools that marketers don't care about and gaps in what they actually do care about: listener attribution, revenue tracking, and content repurposing. Most platforms still treat podcasts as isolated audio files rather than conversion channels. The real opportunity is building a hosting solution that treats podcasts as demand-gen assets first—one that natively integrates with CRM platforms, provides UTM-level granularity on listener behavior, and gives marketers 1-click clip extraction tied directly to social scheduling tools. A founder entering this space should focus on the workflow problem, not the hosting problem. Anchor and Buzzsprout solved hosting years ago. What's unsolved is the marketing operations layer—the spreadsheet that lives in every marketer's brain about which episodes drove leads, which audience segments engaged with which topics, and how to serialize one episode into 40 pieces of content across platforms.