By Radio News Now Staff
Southern Cross Austereo’s LiSTNR is moving more than 150 podcasts to Flightcast, giving the young platform its largest network customer and making video-first distribution a major part of the deal.
LiSTNR says Flightcast will support distribution across audio, video and social platforms. The network is owned by Southern Cross Austereo, Australia’s largest commercial-radio company, and operates a substantial catalog of original and partner podcasts.
Flightcast was launched in October 2025 by Steven Bartlett and RoxCodes. The LiSTNR agreement moves it from serving individual creators and smaller publishers into enterprise-scale audio-network infrastructure.
What the announcement does—and does not—establish
Podnews reports that LiSTNR currently uses Triton Digital’s Omny Studio for podcast hosting. Neither the LiSTNR announcement nor Flightcast’s public description fully explains which Triton services will remain after the migration.
It would therefore be premature to call the transaction a complete hosting, advertising or analytics loss for Triton. Podcast technology stacks are often divided among multiple vendors handling hosting, feed delivery, dynamic ad insertion, measurement, video, social publishing and monetization.
Why U.S. operators should pay attention
The agreement shows how quickly podcast distribution is becoming a unified audio-video-social workflow. A commercial radio group is no longer choosing only where to host an MP3 feed; it is choosing the system that turns each program into material for podcast apps, video platforms and short-form social channels.
- Who controls the RSS feed and redirect if the relationship later ends?
- Which vendor owns or can export listener, viewer and advertising data?
- Who handles dynamic ad insertion and campaign reporting?
- Can the network publish video and audio on different schedules without duplicating work?
- What happens to archives, analytics and subscriber continuity during migration?
RNN analysis
A 150-show migration is more than a software purchase. It is a test of whether commercial-radio groups can build one production chain for audio, video and social distribution without surrendering control of their feeds, data or monetization.