Flightcast Automates YouTube-to-Spotify Video Distribution for $100 a Month

Flightcast, the video-first podcast hosting platform co-founded by Steven Bartlett and CEO Rox Codes, announced on Nov. 3, 2026, an automated YouTube-to-Spotify distribution offering that lets creators publish existing video catalogs and automatically syndicate future YouTube uploads, according to the company's press release and reports by NetInfluencer, Sounds Profitable, PodcastingToday, The Podosphere and Podcast News Daily. The service is priced at $100 a month and adapts titles, descriptions, thumbnails, chapters and links for Spotify, Flightcast said, pointing to the Spotify Partner Program as an added revenue path for video already produced on YouTube.

Nov 08, 2026 - 14:24

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Flightcast, the video-first podcast hosting and distribution platform co-founded by The Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett and chief executive Rox Codes, announced on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, a new automated YouTube-to-Spotify distribution offering that lets creators publish existing YouTube video catalogs to Spotify and automatically syndicate future uploads, according to a Flightcast press release published by Podnews. NetInfluencer, PodcastingToday, The Podosphere, Podcast News Daily, Sounds Profitable and Brazil’s CASTNEWS also reported the launch.

The company said creators can connect a YouTube account to Flightcast, then select individual videos, playlists or an entire catalog to publish to Spotify. Once the accounts are connected, future YouTube uploads are automatically syndicated to Spotify, the release said, removing the need to download, reformat and upload videos one by one. Flightcast priced the offering at $100 per month.

How the YouTube-to-Spotify tool works

Flightcast said the tool handles full catalog migration, automatic syndication of new YouTube videos, and platform-specific formatting. Titles, descriptions, thumbnails, chapters and links are automatically adapted for Spotify, according to the release, PodcastingToday, NetInfluencer and The Podosphere. The company said creators can connect a YouTube account, pick the content they want to distribute, and “get your first videos on Spotify in minutes.”

Flightcast’s product page for the feature, at flightcast.com/youtubers, describes the same workflow: creators connect YouTube and Spotify channels, choose videos, playlists or their whole catalog, and newly published YouTube videos are pulled and uploaded to Spotify automatically. The page lists the service at $100 a month.

CASTNEWS, citing a Flightcast setup guide last updated June 15, 2026, before the November announcement, reported that the company’s synchronization from YouTube to podcast platforms checks a connected channel every six hours and does not include YouTube Shorts.

Pricing and wider distribution

The $100 monthly price was reported by NetInfluencer, The Podosphere and Sounds Profitable as well as the company’s release. CASTNEWS noted that Flightcast’s public pricing table lists $100 a month as the cost of its Pro plan, which is capped at up to 100,000 combined RSS downloads and Spotify streams a month, and that a “YouTube to Podcast” feature appears on the $100 Pro plan and the $250 Legend plan but not on the $50 Basic plan. The November announcement itself did not call the new offering the Pro plan, CASTNEWS added.

Creators who use the offering retain full access to Flightcast’s broader hosting and distribution tools, the company said, including video distribution to Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and Amazon Music and audio versions on other major podcast platforms. CASTNEWS, citing a Flightcast FAQ updated June 14, 2026, reported that a 30-day full refund is voided if a creator activates automatic synchronization or imports YouTube videos, and that creators already hosting on an audio service other than Spotify for Creators or Megaphone must migrate entirely to Flightcast to distribute video and audio together.

Revenue claims and the Spotify Partner Program

“YouTube creators are sitting on years of video that could have a second life on Spotify,” Codes said in the release, a quotation also published by NetInfluencer, PodcastingToday and Podcast News Daily. “Spotify now pays video creators a share of premium subscription revenue through the new Spotify Partner Program. As a result, there’s a lot of appetite for good video content, and potentially massive untapped revenue for these creators.”

Flightcast presented the tool as a way for creators to generate additional revenue from video they have already produced, through Spotify distribution and the Spotify Partner Program. Sounds Profitable, summarizing the announcement, noted that Podnews cautioned that any Spotify earnings depend on the company’s eligibility rules. CASTNEWS, citing Spotify’s creator help center, reported that applying through Spotify for Creators requires, among other criteria, at least three published episodes, 2,000 hours of consumption on Spotify in the previous 30 days and an audience of 1,000 on Spotify in the same period, counted on Spotify rather than on YouTube. The same report said each video episode needs at least one ad break to generate Premium video revenue, and that Spotify calculates that revenue with a proprietary formula.

Company background and earlier video tools

In its release, Flightcast described itself as a video-first podcast hosting and analytics platform that lets creators and media companies publish once and distribute across YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and RSS.

NetInfluencer reported that Flightcast operates within Steven.com, Bartlett’s media holding company, which closed an eight-figure funding round at a $425 million valuation in October 2025. The outlet said backers included Slow Ventures, Apeiron Investment Group, Gary Vaynerchuk and Alex Hormozi, and that Bartlett retained more than 90% ownership in the round.

The Nov. 3 launch follows other video-focused releases from Flightcast this year, according to NetInfluencer. In September, the company expanded its advertising tools so publishers can run a single video ad campaign across Spotify, Apple Podcasts and RSS-based video feeds. In May, it added full video support for Apple Podcasts and HTTP Live Streaming publishing for all customers, after Apple’s February video podcast announcement.

YouTube and Spotify’s competing podcast audiences

NetInfluencer placed the Spotify push in the context of competition between the two platforms for podcast audiences. The outlet cited Edison Research figures reported in July showing that 29% of weekly podcast listeners aged 15 and older in the United Kingdom named YouTube as the service they use most for podcasts, ahead of Spotify at 28%, the first time YouTube had taken the top spot in that U.K. data.

The same day’s Sounds Profitable Download separately summarized a new Audion and YouGov study based on a September survey of 1,000 French adults, which found YouTube was the top audio listening platform in France, used by 61% of listeners, ahead of Spotify at 38%.