Mondo Metrics vs PodcastStats.com

Mondo Metrics describes itself as an analytics operating system for media companies, bringing together podcast, social, video, newsletter, web, app, and streaming analytics. Podcast reports cover downloads, unique listeners, platform insights, retention trends, and episode or show breakdowns. Social and video tracking covers views, engagement, watch time, retention, and completion across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and X. Web, app, and streaming analytics include pageviews, sessions, playback, drop-off, user paths, and conversions. MondoTrends benchmarks public posts and accounts on those five social platforms. Its tools include Mondo Scores, content-mix comparisons, Power Rankings, trend summaries, and market-account performance comparisons. Listed connections include Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GA4, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, iHeartRadio, Omny, Beehiiv, ART19, Megaphone, and Simplecast. Analysts can help set up dashboards, provide custom reports, and support integrations, tagging, and team training. A free plan is available; MondoTrends plans start at $1,000 a month, with custom pricing and a demo required.

PodcastStats.com provides podcast analytics for tracking downloads, understanding audiences and following podcast growth. Its download tracking uses IAB-compliant bot filtering and deduplication to reduce bot traffic and duplicate counts, with live updates. Reports cover geography, devices, platforms, apps, retention and engagement, including city-level geographic detail. To connect a podcast, users can add tracking URLs to an RSS feed or send data through the REST API, which offers webhooks, embeds and custom integrations. Historical data can be imported from Libsyn, Anchor and Buzzsprout. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to 10K downloads per month, with basic dashboard analytics, seven-day data retention, bot filtering and email support. Premium costs $19 a month, allows up to 1M downloads per month and adds advanced insights, unlimited retention, API access and webhooks, widgets, geographic insights and priority support. Enterprise costs $99 a month and includes unlimited downloads, white-labeling, custom integrations and reporting, multi-user accounts, a dedicated support manager and a 99.99% SLA guarantee. A 14-day Premium trial requires no credit card.