Magellan AI vs Podscan.fm

Magellan AI is a platform for planning, tracking, and measuring audio advertising campaigns, with web and API access. Its planning tools search podcasts by keyword, network, genre, or topic, compare audiences and inventory, and help build media plans. Competitive intelligence analyzes ad activity and spend by advertiser, podcast, genre, vertical, demographic, and timeframe, with watchlists and notifications. Aircheck tools review ad content, length, and placement, flag delivery issues, and check promo codes and vanity URL reads. Pixel-based attribution tracks conversion events across podcasts, broadcast and streaming audio, YouTube, and video, with adjustable exposure and look-back windows. Audience analytics include demographic and download data; verified downloads track show and episode downloads and unique listenership. Reports can be exported or automatically sent to an S3 bucket. A free verified-download prefix provides download counts and show visibility, while full-platform access is offered through a demo request. Full-platform pricing is on request.

Podscan.fm is a podcast database and search service for finding and working with episode audio and metadata. Its REST API provides access to more than 72 million episodes from more than 4.9 million podcasts, with full-text transcript search and filters for category, language and date. Podscan says it transcribes and analyzes thousands of new episodes daily. Summaries cover topics, key quotes, guests and sponsors, while topic extraction connects named subjects across the podcast corpus. The service also offers a real-time Firehose API, custom webhooks and a Zapier integration with pre-built triggers for new scan results. Its MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP-enabled clients, using OAuth 2.1 without an API token; REST API requests use API-key authentication. A free plan and 10-day trial are listed. After the trial, alerts pause and API access stops until a paid plan is selected. Premium costs $100 a month. One-time options include Day Pass at $20, paid once and Research Pass at $50, paid once.