Track Podcasts MCP Server

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answering

Track Podcasts is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Podcast sponsorship data from transcribed audio: who sponsors which shows, brand ad history, trends.

Uptime history 5 days of history · worst day 99%

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

425 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Track Podcasts missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add podcast-sponsors --transport http https://trackpodcasts.com/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://trackpodcasts.com/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.podcast-sponsors]
url = "https://trackpodcasts.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "podcast-sponsors": {
      "url": "https://trackpodcasts.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "podcast-sponsors": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://trackpodcasts.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

brand

get_brand_podcasts

Which podcasts a brand advertises on. Returns the shows where that brand's ad reads were detected, newest first, with the exact total even when the list itself is truncated for the plan. Accepts a brand name, slug or domain (a domain is the most reliable). Returns candidate brands when the name is ambiguous.

busiest

get_busiest_categories

Which advertiser categories are buying the most podcast ads right now, by ad reads detected, with the number of brands and shows behind each. Aggregate only — it does not list the brands in a category.

coverage

get_coverage_info

How much of podcasting this dataset actually covers: shows indexed, episodes transcribed, and the real number of brands and shows with detected ad reads. Call this before stating any sponsor finding as complete, and to explain why a show or brand might be missing.

show

get_show_sponsors

Who sponsors a given podcast. Returns every brand whose ad read was detected in that show's transcribed episodes, with how many reads, whether they were host-read or network-inserted, and when they were first and last heard. Accepts a show title, a trackpodcasts.com slug or a URL. If the title is ambiguous it returns candidate shows to choose from instead of guessing. Detected ad reads only — brands that were merely mentioned are not included.

sponsor

get_sponsor_activity_summary

How a brand’s podcast advertising has moved month by month: shows reached, ad reads detected and organic mentions, for up to 36 months. Use this for trend questions ("is this brand spending more?", "when did they start?"). Months with no detections are returned as zero, which means nothing was detected rather than that the brand stopped.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://trackpodcasts.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	360 ms	3 min ago

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Track Podcasts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Track Podcasts do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_brand_podcasts, get_busiest_categories, get_coverage_info, get_show_sponsors, get_sponsor_activity_summary. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Track Podcasts working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 425 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Track Podcasts?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Track Podcasts need an API key?

No. Track Podcasts completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Track Podcasts?

It answers our handshake in 425 ms on average, which is faster than 32% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.