Steven Bartlett, host and creator of The Diary Of A CEO (DOAC) and founder of Manchester’s Social Chain agency (although his press releases now use American spelling), has announced the launch of Flightcast, a new platform to help video podcasters grow their audience.
The platform, co-founded with Roxcodes, the former engineer at MrBeast, is a direct response to the fragmented and time-consuming workflows that hold back today’s top creators.
Flightcast is an all-in-one platform for distributing, analysing, and growing video podcasts across YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and more. It claims to simplify everything from multi-platform distribution to advanced analytics and is a system that Bartlett credits with the rapid growth of DOAC into fastest-growing podcast brands globally.
Bartlett said: “Flightcast brings together all of the tools we built to help us grow The Diary Of A CEO. The demand for high-quality video podcast content is skyrocketing, but the process for creators has been unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. We’re giving them back their most valuable asset – time – by simplifying every step from distribution to growth, with the most valuable analytics currently available.”
Roxcodes, Flightcast’s co-founder and CEO, brings years of experience developing tools for the world’s biggest content creators. He said: “The biggest creators hire full-time data scientists to find the 1% gains. Flightcast cuts through that with software that supports creators to quantify their data, truly understand their audience, and unlock their true potential. It’s taking the playbook of the world’s biggest creators, and delivering it to the wider industry in one platform.”
The platform launches with two standout features – firstly, a unified upload flow that consolidates all video and audio, a first in the industry. Creators can upload video to YouTube and Spotify, while sending audio everywhere else, in a single screen.
Second, a unified dashboard consolidates all analytics. Instead of juggling data across YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and other platforms, creators get a single view of performance, enabling faster insights into what is actually working.
Other key features of Flightcast include:
- One Upload, All Platforms: Distribute video to YouTube and Spotify, and audio to Apple Podcasts and all major audio platforms with a single upload.
- Unified Analytics: All video and audio metrics in one place. Not just views & downloads, but advanced stats like CTR, AVD, returning viewers & listeners, and more.
- AI-Powered, Automated Video Clips Channels: Automatically generate AI-edited clips of episodes, and automatically upload them to YouTube. Flightcast tracks which clips get views, and reports back to you on what moments are actually performing.
- AI Data Analysis: Take advantage of every ounce of data Flightcast has, and ask our AI to give you insights about your own podcast.
- AI Trained On You: Generate titles, descriptions, and chapters that actually sound like you to save hours each month.
Bartlett’s global investment fund has recently invested in a range of growing companies, including SpaceX, Whoop, Groq, Zoe, Huel, MrBeast, PerfectTed, and more.
Most recently, Bartlett announced a significant investment into Stan Store, the all-in-one creator store designed to help creators monetise their audience, becoming a co-owner of the company. The platform has enabled its creators to generate more than $250M in Gross Merchandise Value to date.
Flightcast is now available in early access at flightcast.com.
