Podcast Keyword Alert Monitoring
Find the episodes where hosts and guests mention your product, compare competitors, or discuss the problem your company solves—without listening to every show.
- AI-generated transcripts and episode descriptions
- Around 35,000 episodes scanned each day
- Alerts typically available within 15 minutes
- Slack, email, RSS, API, webhooks
We wanted to know when buyers were already discussing the category. That is when we started using Your Company to find those conversations.
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Can Syften monitor podcast mentions?
Syften monitors new podcast episode descriptions and AI-generated transcripts for the terms in your filters. It scans around 35,000 episodes per day and typically makes alerts available within 15 minutes of release, although processing time varies with load.
Use type:podcast to isolate podcast results, then route each useful excerpt to Slack, email, RSS, API, or webhooks.
Know which episode and timestamp deserve attention
Find brand, competitor, category, founder, and domain mentions without listening to every episode yourself.
A transcript excerpt is not a guaranteed verbatim quote
Audio-to-text can mishear uncommon startup names, domains, and invented words. Verify the original audio before publishing or correcting someone.
Podcast mentions worth hearing
The useful signal is rarely the keyword alone. It is who said it, why it came up, and whether the surrounding conversation gives your team something intelligent to do next.
Brand and founder mentions
Hosts, guests, and customers naming your company, product, domain, or founder inside an episode.
Competitor comparisons
Conversations about alternatives, migrations, pricing, limitations, and why a team chose one tool over another.
Category and problem language
How operators describe a problem, workflow, or desired outcome before they name a product category.
Relevant hosts and guests
People already discussing your market, customers, technology, or point of view in a credible long-form setting.
Content and message research
Repeated questions, objections, examples, and phrases that can improve articles, landing pages, sales material, and positioning.
Timely human follow-up
Mentions where a thoughtful thank-you, source, clarification, or introduction would help the host, guest, or listener.
How podcast monitoring works in Syften
Keep podcast discovery separate from broader community alerts, make ambiguous names more precise, and send each excerpt to someone who can listen and decide what it means.
Choose the names and language
List product names, domains, founders, competitors, category phrases, customer problems, and topics worth hearing in context.
Limit the filter to podcasts
Add type:podcast when a filter should match only episode descriptions and AI-generated podcast transcripts.
Reduce ambiguous transcript matches
Use exact phrases, exclusions, or AI qualification when a short name has ordinary meanings or is often transcribed incorrectly.
Send the excerpt to a listener
Deliver the match to Slack, email, RSS, API, or webhooks so the right person can verify the audio and follow up.
A transcript match tells you where to listen
Podcast descriptions are reliable text supplied with the episode. Body transcripts are generated from audio and can mishear unusual company names, domains, accents, or invented words.
That does not make transcript monitoring useless—it changes the workflow. Treat the excerpt and timestamp as a fast route into the original episode, then verify the audio before quoting, correcting, or contacting anyone.
The host's written summary can confirm the topic, guest, products, and links explicitly included with the episode.
The matched words and nearby sentences reveal the likely context and give you a timestamp to investigate.
Listen around the timestamp before treating the excerpt as an exact quote or acting on a sensitive mention.
Podcast keyword alert examples
These are Syften filters. Keep exact brand discovery, competitor research, and broad category language separate so each alert has a clear owner and review standard.
Exact company or product name
"Your Company" type:podcastFind podcast descriptions and transcript excerpts that contain an exact multi-word name.
Spoken domain mentions
yourproduct.com type:podcastFind episodes where a domain appears in the description or is recognized in the transcript.
Competitor discussions
competitor type:podcastFind episodes that name a known competitor, then listen for the surrounding comparison or decision story.
Category language
"social listening" type:podcastFind long-form conversations using the category or problem phrase your market already understands.
How small teams discover demand before the demo request
We started watching public conversations because buyers often described the problem weeks before they contacted a vendor...
Use exact phrases and longer names before adding AI qualification. Common words can be especially noisy in transcripts, while unusual names may need several spelling variants. The filter-building guide covers exact phrases, exclusions, tags, and AI qualification.
Search, media intelligence, and mention alerts solve different jobs
Choose based on whether you are researching one show now, measuring broad media impact, or waiting for a specific episode and transcript match to happen.
Research a known show or topic on demand
Useful when you remember to search and know roughly what you want. It does not continuously route transcript matches across new episodes.
Analyze broad coverage and reporting
Useful when reach, sentiment, campaign reporting, and a wider media program matter. It can be more system than a small team needs for precise alerts.
Receive focused episode mentions automatically
Useful when transcript and description matching, source-specific filters, recent archive checks, AI qualification, and routing to Slack, email, RSS, API, or webhooks matter.
The useful feed is smaller than the podcast universe
Syften is a strong fit when someone on the team can listen around the timestamp, understand the context, and turn the mention into a thank-you, research insight, correction, source, introduction, or thoughtful pitch.
Operating since 2019
Check out what our customers are saying
At Rewardful, we're huge believers in word-of-mouth marketing. I've used most of the social monitoring tools on the market and most have a lot of noise in the results or miss important conversations happening online. Syften returns the most relevant social mentions with the least amount of noise out of all the tools I've tested so far. Their community listening is the best on the market and I love how you can fine tune by source.
I love that Syften monitors all the communities I am part of but don't have enough time to check all day. Now, I can check my email and see conversations happening on Twitter, Reddit, Indie Hackers, and many more places. It's incredibly useful. Worth every dollar.
We use Syften to react to people saying things about us on the internet every single day. It's a set once and forget tool that just helps your team keep your pulse on whatever it is you care about.
Syften is awesome. I use it for my business so I can monitor the brand, and participate in online discussions which can help us attract new customers. I also use it personally to keep track of niche subjects that I'm interested in like emerging tech and products.
We love Syften at PostHog and find it incredibly useful for listening to our open-source community. The Slack integration enables our entire team to find ways to connect with our users, whether it's the Marketing team sharing new content or the Engineering team answering technical questions. The filtering system is especially powerful and helps us separate the signal from the noise.
I've written a couple books and like to keep an eye on how and where folks are talking about them. Syften has helped me catch several key conversations that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. Even on the days without any notable alerts, I'm still happy to know that I haven't missed anything. A very useful tool.
Syften has become integral to our business. It allows us to monitor *and* respond in real-time using their super simple webhooks. For example, when people mention our competitors being expensive on Twitter, Syften finds it and enables us to respond instantly with Zapier. It's paid for itself many times over. It even helped us secure $5M in funding for one of our community members. Michael has been overwhelmingly supportive over the past 18+ months we've been a customer and we couldn't be more grateful.
I use Syften every day and have been for a year. I looked at various other social listening tools but they were mostly aimed at big brands and enterprise customers and carried a hefty price tag. Syften tracks all of the major networks that I'm interested (even ones the big tools don't) and it's affordable for businesses of every size. Every day I get an email digest of people talking about my product for me to take immediate action on.
I gather the mentions I get from Syften and add them to our customer sales and partner presentations to show how our product is gaining mindshare amongst users on Reddit and forums. These slides are very impactful.
Syften has been a great tool to understand in which communities my website is being mentioned, or topics relevant to my business. It allowed me to engage in meaningful discussions and to identify some important actors in my niche.
Syften has enabled us to keep an eye on the topics related to our product. We can easily track posts about discount codes, email marketing, and e-commerce. We can then suggest using our service, or just be helpful answering questions on subjects that we are familiar with.
Pricing
It pays for itself if you find just one customer (easy)
Entry
Keep an eye out for your product name
- Communities filters: 3A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 100/day
- Web filters: 1The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 5/day
- Archive search: 7 daysSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
Standard
AI filtering, API access, more filters, more archive, Slack integration, and optional Twitter and YouTube support
- Communities filters: 20A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 200/day
- Web filters: 5The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 20/day
- Archive search: 1 monthSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
Syften PRO
More matches, more filters, unlimited archive, API access, and webhook support
- Communities filters: 100A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 500/day
- Web filters: 20The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 50/day
- Archive search: unlimitedSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
- WebhooksPush new matches to your own endpoint. Click to read more.
- MCPConnect Syften to AI tools that support MCP. Click to read more.
Tailor made
We also offer custom solutions built just for you, whether it's integrating Syften into your product or supplying your marketing team with the right data.
Frequently asked questions
What does Syften monitor for podcast alerts?
Syften monitors podcast episode descriptions and AI-generated transcripts, then matches them against your filters.
Transcript matches can be imperfect because audio-to-text conversion is imperfect, especially for unusual startup names, domain names, and invented words. Episode descriptions are more reliable.
How fast are podcast alerts?
Podcast alerts are typically available within about 15 minutes of an episode being released, but timing can vary with load and podcast processing.
How many podcast episodes do you scan?
Syften scans around 35,000 podcast episodes per day. The live stats on this page show the recent volume Syften has processed.
How do I limit a filter to podcast results?
Add type:podcast to the filter. For example, yourproduct type:podcast only alerts on podcast transcript and description matches.
Can I exclude podcasts from a noisy alert?
Yes. Add NOT type:podcast when podcasts are too noisy for a broad filter.
That is useful when a common word appears often in transcripts and you only want written community matches.
Can Syften summarize podcast episodes?
Syften is focused on keyword alerts. If you want episode summaries with excerpts, try Aurilix.
Can I use replyto: on podcasts?
No. Podcasts do not have reply threads, so replyto: is not supported for podcast matches.
Do you support other communities, or just podcasts?
Syften monitors the public web and these communities:
- The public web (articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and competitor blogs)
- X/Twitter
- Indie Hackers
- Hacker News
- GitHub
- ProductHunt
- The Stack Exchange family
- Forums
- Lobste.rs
- Dev.to
- Steemit
- Various Slack communities
- Newsletters
- YouTube
- Podcasts
- Bluesky
- Mastodon
I have more questions.
Use the chat widget or email us at hello@syften.com (we'll reply within 24 hours).
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