Search for “Last.fm podcast submission” and you will find a dozen agencies happy to sell you a listing. We are going to start by telling you something they will not: Last.fm does not accept podcast submissions, and it never has. There is no submit button, no publisher dashboard, no RSS field waiting for your feed URL.
That is not bad news. It means your budget can go toward the work that actually puts your show in front of listeners. Our service explains how Last.fm works, places your show everywhere that genuinely indexes podcasts and, for music-led shows, handles the upstream metadata that can make a Last.fm presence possible.
We work with podcasters and audio brands across the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India.
Last.fm launched in London in 2002 and became famous for scrobbling: the automatic logging of every song you play across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal and SoundCloud into one permanent listening history. CBS bought it in 2007 for around $280 million, and it passed through Paramount before returning to full independence in May 2026 — with the same team, scrobble archive and continued support for its public API.
Last.fm is an active music database, recommendation engine and community. It is not a podcast platform. Its architecture is built around artists, albums and tracks, not shows, seasons and episodes. There is no RSS ingestion pipeline, episode-level object or publisher account.
When listeners play podcasts on Spotify, those plays do not scrobble to Last.fm. Music does; podcasts do not. A platform that cannot record a podcast play is not a platform you can submit a podcast to.
The listicles are the culprit. Around 2015, a “Top 50 podcast submission sites” post swept every audio-adjacent domain into one list — including Last.fm, Blip.fm, 8tracks and digitalpodcast.com. SEO blogs copied it without checking, agencies kept selling against it and podcasters kept paying for placements that cannot be delivered.
There is a second source of confusion. Last.fm catalogue pages are generated automatically, once a day, by importing artist, album and track data from music catalogues such as MusicBrainz, Discogs, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and 7Digital. Pages can also be created by scrobbling. If a podcast episode was released as a track through a music distributor, or scrobbled as a track, a page could appear. Nobody submitted the podcast.
Last.fm is not a door you knock on. It is a mirror of catalogues upstream of it.
Roughly 4.5 to 4.7 million podcasts are indexed worldwide, but only about 450,000 to 500,000 actively publish. Against a projected global audience of more than 619 million listeners this year, the competition is smaller than the headline suggests — if your show is correctly placed, described and indexed.
Your feed goes to platforms that genuinely ingest podcasts: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Audible, YouTube Music, Pocket Casts, Overcast, Player FM, Podcast Addict, Castbox, Deezer, TuneIn, iVoox, Podcast Index, fyyd, gpodder.net and relevant regional platforms.
We complete manual claims, email verifications and review queues that one-click host distribution does not reach.
For music-led shows, we manage artist entities in MusicBrainz and Discogs, consolidate consistent artist naming, check ISRCs and original-music credits, and publish structured, crawlable episode tracklists.
If a track from your show is distributed as music, this upstream route can make it visible on Last.fm.
We publish canonical episode pages with full transcripts, PodcastEpisode and PodcastSeries schema, Podcasting 2.0 tags including chapters and transcripts, feed auto-discovery and search-focused titles and descriptions.
Clean structured text also helps AI answer engines surface your show.
We validate required iTunes tags, owner email, artwork, enclosure URLs, stable GUIDs, categories, language, explicit flags and file encoding.
We tell you honestly whether music metadata work is useful. A B2B interview show with no original music does not need MusicBrainz work.
We fix audit faults, optimise show and episode metadata around keyword research, and correct artwork to the strictest relevant specification.
We submit to relevant directories, complete claims and email verification, and confirm every listing is live and rendering correctly. Submitted is not the same as listed.
We add transcripts, canonical episode pages, schema, chapters and internal linking from your site.
We remove dead badges, deliver a listing inventory with live URLs, and report on placements, indexation and search visibility.
You want a screenshot of a Last.fm show page. We cannot produce one, and neither can anyone else. If a vendor promises one, ask for the live URL before paying.
We would rather lose that sale than deliver a fiction.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube lead discovery, so we emphasise YouTube publishing, transcripts and search-led episode pages.
Spotify leads listener preference; BBC Sounds and independent app coverage matter more than in North America.
Apple and Spotify placement plus strong episode SEO drives results in this mature English-language market.
Correct language declaration and regional app coverage materially improve reach for multilingual audiences.
We include regional-language declaration, JioSaavn, Amazon Music India, Hubhopper and diaspora targeting.
Feed audit and repair, core directory submissions, listing verification, optimised show metadata and a complete listing inventory. Best for new shows and first-time distribution.
Everything in Starter, plus extended and regional coverage, episode metadata optimisation, transcripts, canonical episode pages, schema and monthly reporting. Best for consistently publishing shows.
Everything in Growth, plus MusicBrainz and Discogs entity management, tracklists, credit and ISRC accuracy, host migration with 301 redirects and GUID preservation, multi-show management and a dedicated strategist.
Pricing is quoted only after the free feed audit, because quoting before we have seen your feed would be guesswork.
We have delivered search and audio distribution work for more than a decade across six markets, and built platform-specific submission services for dozens of directories. That is how we know which platforms are real, which are dormant and which exist only in an old listicle.
We publish awkward facts on our own service pages. We tell clients when a platform is free and they are paying only for the work around it. We say when a layer does not apply. Every delivered listing includes a live URL. If a directory rejects a feed, you see the reason and the fix, not a vague status update.
That is E-E-A-T in practice: verifiable experience, expertise you can question, authority earned by accuracy and trust built by refusing to sell something that does not exist.
No. Last.fm has no podcast submission form, publisher dashboard or RSS ingestion. It is a music scrobbling and discovery service. Any agency promising a direct Last.fm podcast listing cannot deliver one.
Yes. Last.fm returned to full independence in May 2026 after nearly two decades under CBS and Paramount ownership. Accounts, scrobble histories, Pro subscriptions and the public API continued unchanged.
Last.fm imports catalogue data from MusicBrainz, Discogs, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and 7Digital, and scrobbling can create pages. Podcast-named pages are usually audio released through a music distributor, not submitted shows.
No. Music plays scrobble, but podcast and show episodes do not, including from Spotify. This is a long-standing known limitation.
Feed repair, submissions and verified listings across platforms that genuinely index podcasts, plus metadata and discovery work. For music-led shows, we also handle upstream catalogue data that Last.fm imports.
Most are. You pay for a feed that passes every specification, completed and verified submissions, manual claims that one-click distribution misses, and the discovery work around each listing.
The audit usually takes two to three working days. Core submissions are completed within a week, although each platform has its own review queue.
Yes. We serve podcast clients in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India. Delivery, reporting and communication are available in English.
Start with a free feed audit. We will show you what needs fixing, where your podcast should actually be submitted and which discovery services fit your show.
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