🆚 iHeart vs. Spotify for Creators

Type

Audio streaming service
Audio streaming service

About

iHeart is an American audio streaming platform that combines live radio, podcasts, and music streaming, available on hundreds of platforms and connected devices.

It provides access to more than 3,500 live radio stations, millions of podcasts, curated playlists, and personalized artist stations, and supports features such as song rating feedback, custom stations, offline listening, and on-demand playback on paid plans.

Spotify for Creators is a free platform for creating, hosting, and distributing podcasts and video shows, formerly known as Anchor, that combines publishing, audience management, and monetization tools in one service.

It provides free hosting with RSS distribution to major listening platforms, supports both audio and video podcast publishing, and includes audience analytics with engagement features such as comments and polls.

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Headquarters

San Antonio, Texas, United States
Stockholm, Sweden

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Ad-supported, max 6 skips per hour per station, up to 15 skips per day
Plus
Web or Google Play $4.99/month
App Store $5.99/month
All Access
Web or Google Play $9.99/month
App Store $12.99/month
Free version ✔️ Podcast hosting
Podcast Subscriptions
Payment processing fee 5.5%
Foreign exchange fee 0.8%-1.6%

Categories

Audio Streaming › Rank #12
Audio Streaming › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Spotify for Creators audio streaming service is 1.8 times more popular than iHeart.
Total websites

Market share

Audio Streaming

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Spotify for Creators is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Brazil, while iHeart is more popular in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Brazil
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Spain
Japan
Czech Republic

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Spotify for Creators is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and education and reference, while iHeart is more commonly used on entertainment, Internet radio and TV, and travel sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Finance/Banking
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,127
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Rank
#1,061
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See also

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