I run a podcast hosting company. I have had over 1000 current and former customers who have their podcast on Spotify.
Unfortunately my customers have had to submit it themselves because unless you know someone at Spotify they won't give you API access to submit podcasts.
I have tried their customer support multiple times but the lower level people are a dead end. Anyone have any contacts at Spotify they could maybe refer me to?
Thanks.
Have you tried finding a "partnership" or "biz dev" person on LinkedIn? I find those people are usually pretty responsive.
Submitting to Spotify requires accepting their terms. So I don't think you can automate that. I think Google and Apple podcasts are the same right.
Spotify has about 20-30 or so what they call "partnered aggregators". These people can submit podcasts for their users to Spotify as well as use the API to get download/listen statistics. You can get access but you have to know someone above the low level customer service.
A fellow Indiehacker was able to do it because he had connections. I am hopefully looking to do the same.
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-get-api-access-from-big-tech-41bf4dea26