Move aside Substack – Ghost and Transistor team up to offer private podcasts

Move aside Substack – Ghost and Transistor team up to offer private podcasts

Transistor.fm

March 25, 2026

Create members-only podcasts with Ghost CMS and Transistor.fm

Ghost is an open-source alternative to Substack’s blogging, newsletter, and subscription platform. Many have been waiting for Ghost to offer an official option for private podcasts. Now, Ghost publishers can integrate with Transistor right in their dashboard.

This integration allows Ghost publishers to offer private podcasts as a members-only perk.

Critically acclaimed publications like 404 Media and Lever News already use Ghost and Transistor together to make private podcasts a key perk for paying subscribers.

There’s a video tutorial of how it works here:

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Audio Primes: The People Who Listen to Podcasts

Thursday, April 16th at 2PM EST

In this webinar, Sounds Profitable unveils Audio Primes, a new audience segment sponsored by RSS.com and drawn from The Podcast Landscape 2025 study. These are podcast consumers who listen to at least three-quarters of their content as audio, and they defy every stereotype you might have about them. We'll walk through who they are, how they consume media, what drives their remarkable loyalty, and why they function as the word-of-mouth engine of the entire podcast ecosystem. Join Tom Webster, Partner at Sounds Profitable, and Alberto Betella from RSS.com as they present original research you won't find anywhere else. Whether you sell ads, make shows, or build platforms, you'll leave with a clearer picture of the audience that matters most and a better understanding of what to do about it.

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