Zeno.FM is not another podcast directory you tick off a list. It is a global radio network with programming from 248 countries and roughly 40 million monthly listeners — an audience most podcast marketing never touches, because it lives in diaspora communities, in-car dashboards, feature phones and language-specific radio streams rather than in the top-ten charts of Western podcast apps.
Our Zeno Media podcast submission services get your show properly inside that ecosystem: the feed audited and fixed first, the account and import handled correctly, the metadata written for how Zeno's own search and apps work, and the same feed syndicated across every other directory that matters. If you run a live radio show, we also build the pipeline that turns each broadcast into a published episode — legally and cleanly.
Half the confusion around this platform comes from listicles that file it under "free podcast submission sites." That is not how it works, and getting this wrong wastes weeks.
Zeno Media is a New York-based audio streaming company founded in 2011, whose flagship product is Zeno.FM. Its original mission was connecting niche and diaspora communities back to their hometown radio stations and native-language programming — listeners and broadcasters concentrated in West Africa, the Caribbean, Central Asia and Latin America, many of them now settled in the United States, the UK and Canada. It carries roughly 25,000 streams.
The critical distinction: Zeno.FM is a host and a listening platform, not an open crawler. Unlike Listen Notes or Podcasts.com, it does not discover and index public RSS feeds from around the web. There is no "submit your external feed" form that gets you into the Zeno apps. The door into that audience is a Zeno Tools account with your show hosted or imported inside it.
That single fact changes the whole job. This is not form-filling. It is an architecture decision — full migration, or a controlled secondary presence — followed by careful technical execution.
We put this near the top because clients keep being quoted from outdated pages.
Listening to and discovering stations and podcasts on Zeno.FM is free and needs no account. Podcast hosting is presented by Zeno as free, unlimited, with monetisation available and analytics going back up to a year.
However, free streaming plans were discontinued in January 2025. Live radio broadcasting now requires a paid plan — Starter, Prime or Premier — with a 7-day trial available on Starter, and pricing localised by country. Add-ons including a branded mobile app, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, and the Podcast Bot automation are paid extras. Monetisation is not included during a trial.
So: if you are a podcast-only creator, your listing costs nothing and you are paying us for the work around it. If you are a radio broadcaster, there is a platform subscription on top. We tell you which of those you are in the first conversation, before any invoice.
Zeno Tools lets you import an existing show by pasting your RSS feed URL under "Import from URL." It works well. But Zeno's own documentation is explicit about a limitation that quietly breaks shows: the import function only brings in episodes that exist up to the date you import them. It is a one-time copy, not a live sync.
Miss that, and here is what happens. Your Zeno listing freezes at the import date. Listeners who followed you there see a show that apparently stopped publishing. Your back catalogue sits in two places with two sets of file URLs, splitting your download numbers across two systems, so neither figure is the one you can show a sponsor.
We handle this as a deliberate architecture choice made before anything is imported:
Both are valid. Choosing the wrong one is what costs you six months.
This is where Zeno is genuinely different from every other host, and where most attempts fail on rights rather than on technology.
Zeno's Podcast Bot / Podcast AI add-on records your live show automatically on your broadcast schedule, strips the music, cleans the audio, handles intros and outros, and generates titles, descriptions and show notes — publishing a finished episode without manual editing.
Read that "removes the music" line again, because it is not a convenience feature. It is a licensing firewall. A broadcast licence lets you play commercial music live to a streaming audience. It does not let you republish that music as a downloadable, on-demand podcast episode distributed through Apple, Spotify and Amazon. Music-bearing recordings are exactly why podcast episodes get pulled, demonetised or struck.
Our work on this layer covers:
We validate your RSS before touching anything: required show tags, owner email exposure, enclosure URLs, artwork specs, GUID stability, itunes:block leftovers, and whether your feed host is blocking platform crawlers at the WAF or CDN. We also check whether a stale or duplicate Zeno listing already exists from an earlier attempt.
Zeno Tools account configuration, station structure where relevant, plan sizing against your actual needs rather than the biggest tier, and correct MP3 formatting for uploads and imports.
The architecture decision above, executed with GUID preservation, 301 redirects, and manual feed-URL updates at the platforms that require them.
Zeno's apps let listeners explore by country, language, genre and creator. That means your language declaration, country of origin and category choices are ranking inputs, not admin fields — particularly for regional-language and diaspora-targeted shows. Episode titles are written to be found, not just to be clever.
Every podcast gets its own page on zeno.fm — a real, indexable URL. We optimise that page's title, description and imagery, then pair it with canonical episode pages on your own site carrying full transcripts and PodcastEpisode / PodcastSeries schema, plus rel="alternate" feed discovery. That is what gets your show quoted in Google, in AI Overviews and in answer engines, which is now a meaningful share of podcast discovery.
One feed, everywhere it should be: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pocket Casts, Player FM, Castbox, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Podcast Index, plus regional platforms — JioSaavn, Hubhopper, Deezer, iVoox — including the ones that need a manual claim or a verification code sent to the email inside your feed.
Zeno partners with major digital audio ad platforms to monetise podcasts on paid plans. We get you eligible and presentable: clean analytics, a media kit built on defensible numbers, consistent artwork, and reporting that separates Zeno's audience from your other channels instead of blending them into one meaningless total.
Zeno is a strong fit for some shows and close to pointless for others. We would rather say so now.
Strong fit: community and independent radio stations; religious and devotional broadcasters; regional-language and native-language programming; shows targeting African, Caribbean, Latin American, South Asian or Central Asian diaspora audiences; music and talk hybrids that already broadcast live; brands selling into immigrant communities in the US, UK and Canada.
Weak fit: an English-language B2B SaaS interview show with an all-Western professional audience. You will be listed, and it will not move your numbers. We will tell you to spend the budget on Apple, Spotify, YouTube and search visibility instead.
United States — the platform's deepest market and the historical centre of its diaspora listenership. In-car and smart-speaker listening matters here, which is what makes the CarPlay and Android Auto add-on relevant for station groups.
United Kingdom — significant West African, Caribbean and South Asian communities; language declaration and locale-accurate metadata do the heavy lifting.
Canada — strong multicultural broadcasting demand across major metros; bilingual metadata is worth the effort.
Australia — a smaller Zeno footprint. We usually position it as coverage rather than a primary channel, with Apple and Spotify leading.
Singapore — low volume, high value. Multilingual declaration across English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil decides whether you surface at all.
India — the practical value here is diaspora reach outward plus regional-language programming, and it pairs naturally with JioSaavn and Hubhopper. Our team is based in India, so this market is not a guess for us.
We decline work we can't do honestly. This service isn't for private or paywalled member-only feeds, which should never be submitted to public platforms. It isn't for a show with one unfinished episode — fix the show first. It isn't for anyone who wants a guaranteed chart position or a promised listener number; no agency controls either, and one that says otherwise is selling you a story. And it isn't audio production — we don't write, record or edit your show.
Step 1 — Free feed and listing audit. Technical validation, existing-listing check, honest fit assessment. No charge, no obligation.
Step 2 — Architecture decision. Full migration or secondary presence, documented with the reasoning so you can overrule us.
Step 3 — Feed remediation. Every fault from the audit fixed at your host before submission, because platforms cache what they first read.
Step 4 — Setup and import. Account, station, plan sizing, import or migration with GUIDs preserved and redirects in place.
Step 5 — Metadata and landing page build. Language, country, categories, show and episode copy, artwork specs, Zeno page optimisation.
Step 6 — Radio-to-podcast pipeline (broadcasters only). Schedule mapping, music-removal verification, human review gate, episode structuring.
Step 7 — Syndication, verification and reporting. Every directory submitted and then verified live on a real device — not marked complete because a form was filled. Then measurement setup and a reporting cadence.
Pricing is quoted only after the free feed audit, because a clean three-episode show and a 400-episode station migration are not the same job and shouldn't carry the same price.
Starter — best for new and single podcasts. Feed audit and remediation, Zeno Tools setup, podcast creation or import, show metadata and artwork compliance, Zeno landing page optimisation, plus submission to the core directory set with live verification.
Growth — best for established shows and small networks. Everything in Starter, plus full migration with GUID preservation and redirects, episode-level metadata optimisation, transcripts and canonical episode pages with schema on your own site, extended regional directory syndication including manual-claim platforms, and monthly reporting.
Enterprise — best for station groups, broadcasters and multi-show networks. Everything in Growth, plus multi-station and multi-show architecture, the full radio-to-podcast pipeline with Podcast Bot configuration and music-removal QA, monetisation readiness and media kit, branded app and in-car add-on guidance, multilingual metadata across markets, and a named account lead.
Experience. We have executed submission, migration and listing-repair work across the live podcast platform landscape — hosts, directories, indexes and closed catalogues — including the platforms that quietly went dark and still appear on "top submission sites" lists. That is why this page tells you what Zeno isn't before it sells you what it is.
Expertise. Our team works across feed engineering, platform compliance, structured data and search visibility. We read platform documentation rather than repeating blog summaries of it, which is how we knew the import is a one-time copy and that free streaming ended in January 2025.
Authoritativeness. We operate as a white-label partner to agencies as well as direct clients, across the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India. The same specialists do the work whichever route you come through.
Trust. We state plainly when a platform listing is free. We don't create fake listings, fake reviews or fake credits. We don't promise chart positions. And if the audit says Zeno is a poor fit for your show, we say so and lose the sale.
Podcast hosting is offered free with unlimited uploads and analytics. Live radio streaming is not — free streaming plans were discontinued in January 2025, and broadcasting now requires a Starter, Prime or Premier plan, with pricing localised by country.
Zeno doesn't crawl external feeds, so being in its apps means importing your show into Zeno Tools. You can keep your current host as canonical and run Zeno as a maintained secondary presence — that's the architecture decision we make with you at the audit.
It can, if handled carelessly. Zeno's import brings in only the episodes that exist at the moment you import, and it doesn't keep syncing. We prevent duplicates and split download numbers by preserving GUIDs, setting redirects where appropriate and documenting a re-import cadence.
Setup and import typically complete within a few working days once your feed is clean. Feed remediation is usually what determines the timeline, and downstream directories run on their own review queues — Apple's in particular.
Yes. That's the Podcast Bot pipeline: scheduled capture, music removal, generated show notes, then our human review gate before publishing. Music removal matters legally, not just cosmetically — a broadcast licence doesn't cover on-demand redistribution of commercial music.
No, and nobody can. We guarantee the work: a compliant feed, a correct listing verified live, optimised metadata, and honest reporting on what it produced.
Possibly — a large share of its listenership is diaspora communities settled in exactly those countries. What decides it is your subject and language, not your geography. The free audit answers this before you spend anything.
Yes. We deliver under your brand with your reporting templates, across all our service markets.
Send us your RSS feed URL and, if you have one, your existing Zeno listing. We'll come back with a written audit: every technical fault, whether a stale listing already exists, a straight fit assessment for your show, the architecture we'd recommend, and a fixed quote.
No obligation, no automated report, no guesswork — just a clear picture of what standing between your show and Zeno's 40 million monthly listeners.
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