To monitor podcast mentions of your company or a competitor, you need a service that transcribes new episodes as they come out and checks the spoken words against your query, because mentions almost never appear in titles or show notes. On Audioscrape you search for the name, click “Alert me on new results”, and every newly transcribed episode or public meeting that matches lands in a daily or instant email with the speaker, the quote and a link to the second it was said. Pro and Enterprise workspaces can receive the same matches as signed webhooks into Slack, Teams or their own systems.
Why media monitoring tools miss podcasts
Most monitoring products index text: articles, press releases, social posts. A host recommending your product in passing at minute 37 of a two-hour episode is invisible to them. Catching it requires transcribing the episode and matching against the transcript. Audioscrape transcribes public podcasts continuously and checks each new transcript against standing queries at index time.
How to do it with Audioscrape
1. Build the query. Go to search and type the name. Use quotes for exact matches and boolean operators to control noise:
"Acme Robotics"
"Acme Robotics" OR "Acme Robots" NOT "Acme Anvils"
"Acme Robotics" from: 2026
Look at the results and the sidebar facets. If the name is a common word, add a distinguishing term or restrict to a category of podcasts. Do this before setting the alert, because a broad alert fills your inbox.
2. Set the alert. Click “Alert me on new results” on the search page. Enter your email and confirm the link. No account is needed for an email alert. Repeat for each competitor, each executive, and each product name. Entity pages (for example a company at /entity/{slug}) and person pages also have the alert button, which is useful when the knowledge graph already tracks the company.
3. Choose delivery. From /alerts you can switch each alert between a daily digest and instant delivery, pause and resume it, or delete it. Each email carries the episode or meeting title, who said it, the transcript snippet and a deep link to the moment, plus a one-click unsubscribe.
4. Webhooks for teams. On Pro and Enterprise, open your workspace’s Integrations tab and add a feed. Matches are POSTed as HMAC-signed JSON with a delivery log, test fire and replay. Point it at a Slack, Discord or Teams relay, or at your own pipeline.
5. Review history. The same query, run manually with a date range, gives you the backlog: everything said about the company in the indexed corpus before you set the alert. Entity pages add mentions over time and related entities, which shows who tends to be discussed alongside you.
With an AI assistant. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to https://mcp.audioscrape.com and ask “Who mentioned Acme Robotics on podcasts this week, and what did they say?” The assistant calls search_audio with recency: "last_week", and search_entities or get_entity_graph for the company’s position in the knowledge graph. For a recurring report, have your agent run the search on a schedule; the REST equivalent is POST /api/search with a date_range filter.
What you get
- Matches from spoken text only, so a mention in an episode description that was never said aloud does not fire, and a mention in the audio that never made it into the notes does.
- Speaker, snippet, timestamp and source link for each match.
- Coverage across podcasts and public government meetings, plus your own uploads if you want to monitor internal recordings in a workspace.
- Plan limits: keyword alerts are 15 on Starter, 50 on Pro and unlimited on Enterprise; webhooks are on Pro and Enterprise. Current numbers are on the pricing page.
Limits and honest caveats
- Alerts fire when an episode is transcribed, not when it is published. Popular shows are prioritized, so a mention on a large show typically arrives within a day and a small show can take longer.
- Not every podcast is indexed. If a show that matters to you is missing, submit its RSS feed at /submit.
- Transcripts can mis-hear brand names, especially invented ones. Add likely mis-spellings as OR terms if you notice misses.
- Audioscrape does not monitor social video platforms. It covers podcasts, public meeting recordings, and audio you upload yourself.
Doing it without a tool
Subscribe to the handful of shows in your category and skim new episodes. That works for five shows and fails at fifty, and it never catches the unexpected mention on a show you did not know existed.
Plans and limits: /pricing. Facts for AI agents: /docs/for-agents.