Can we publish a podcast on our SharePoint intranet without a public RSS feed?

Yes. An embedded player on the page and an authenticated feed both work without a public RSS URL, and nothing is listed in the open podcast directories unless you choose to publish there as well.

Do listeners need a second login?

No. Single sign-on and SAML through your existing identity provider are supported, so employees press play with the account they already use for the intranet.

Can we still let people listen on their phone during the commute?

Yes. That is what the authenticated feed is for. It behaves like a normal podcast subscription, with queueing and resume, while the listener stays signed in and the feed stays out of the public directories.

What can we measure without identifying individuals?

Reach, listen-through and drop-off are reported in aggregate by department, location or audience group. There is no named-listener or per-employee tracking, so no individual listening record exists.

Where is the audio and the listening data stored?

All customer data is stored in Germany and processed within the EU, with data processing agreements available for your security review. Where a customer requires a different location, that can be selected.

Integration

Your Internal Podcast. On The SharePoint Intranet. Without Public MP3 Links.

Episodes sit on the intranet pages your colleagues already read, played through an embedded player or an authenticated feed rather than a file link. Listeners are recognised through single sign-on, and reach is reported per audience group rather than per person.

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A Hypecast player embedded on a SharePoint intranet page, alongside the written news content it belongs to.

Integration

Can we publish a podcast on our SharePoint intranet?

Yes. A show can reach SharePoint in three ways: an embedded Hypecast player on an intranet page, an authenticated feed listeners subscribe to, or a link from a news post into the show page. All three run on the same signed-in identity, so access follows employment rather than a shareable file URL, and listening is reported in aggregate for the audience groups you publish to.

Why teams pick this integration.

The intranet stays the front door

The episode sits next to the written article, the campaign page or the leadership update it belongs to, so people meet the show where they already look for company news.

Access follows the account

Listeners are recognised through single sign-on rather than through a link that can be forwarded. When an account ends, access ends with it, and no public RSS URL has to exist for the show to run.

Listen-through, not page views

Internal shows average a 78 percent listen-through rate (Hypecast platform data, measured across customer programmes after their first six months). You see where attention drops across an episode, not only that a page was opened. Reporting stays aggregated, with no named-listener tracking.

How it works.

1
Embed the player on a page
An editor places a Hypecast player on any intranet page: the latest episode on the news homepage, the full archive on a learning site, one leadership episode on a campaign page. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is stored as a loose file.
2
Or hand out an authenticated feed
For people who prefer to listen while commuting, each show also exists as a private, authenticated feed. It behaves like a normal podcast subscription, except the listener signs in and the feed is not listed in the open directories.
3
Or link out from a news post
A short news item can simply link to the show page, which is the fastest route when the intranet team wants no new components on the page. Access, reporting and archive stay the same in all three cases.

We already have SharePoint, why not upload MP3s?

For a single recording it works. Someone uploads the file to a document library, embeds it on a page, and colleagues press play. If your plan is one town-hall recording a year, that is the honest answer: you do not need anything else.

It breaks once the recording becomes a series. There is no episode feed, so every new episode is a manual page edit and nobody can subscribe. There is no mobile listening worth the name, because a file in a document library does not queue, resume or download for the commute. There is no aggregated analytics beyond a page view, so you cannot tell whether people finished the episode or left after ninety seconds. And there is no access model beyond the page itself: once someone has the file URL, the audio has left your permission structure.

The three paths above solve exactly those four gaps while leaving SharePoint as the place people go. The intranet keeps its role, and the audio gets a feed, a player, an access model and reporting that a comms lead can take into a review.

Use cases.

News homepage

The newest episode embedded above the written summary, so the show is part of the weekly reading habit rather than a separate destination.

Learning and enablement site

The full archive on a learning site, grouped by topic, so an onboarding series stays available long after the launch week.

Business unit portals

Each unit embeds the shows that concern it, while governance and reporting stay separated by workspace.

How do the three options differ?

Uploading MP3s to SharePoint, a hosting tool with an RSS feed, and Hypecast solve different parts of the problem.

How do the three options differ?
Criterion	MP3 upload on SharePoint	Hosting tool RSS	Hypecast
Episode feed and archive	Files in a library, no feed	Yes, as a public or link-shared feed	Yes, an authenticated feed per show
Public RSS required	No feed at all	Yes, or a shareable secret link	No
Listener authentication	Page permissions only, the file URL travels	None; whoever holds the link can listen	Single sign-on per listener
Mobile listening	Plays in a browser, no queue or resume	Yes, in any podcast app	Yes, in the app or the authenticated feed
Publishing workflow	Manual page edit per episode	Upload and publish	Multi-stage approval and audit trail
Analytics	Page views	Downloads, anonymous	Listen-through per episode and audience group
Security documentation	Covered by your Microsoft agreement	Rarely published	ISO 27001 certified, GDPR, DPA, data stored in Germany

Security & compliance

Single sign-on and SAML through your existing identity provider, role-based access and an audit trail on every publication. ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, with data processing agreements available for procurement. All customer data is stored in Germany and processed within the EU, and another location can be selected where a customer requires it.

ISO 27001GDPRSSO / SAMLRole-based access

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