For the past four years, the Matt Forney Show—as well as the MP3 downloads of Matt Forney Live—have been hosted on SoundCloud. I transitioned to hosting the show on SoundCloud after originally using my own site in order to expand its reach as well as make it easier to get the show onto the iTunes Store and other platforms.
However, SoundCloud has been aggressively deplatforming right-wing users for the past two years. Numerous podcasters on the site, from Red Ice to Roosh, have either been heavily censored or banned outright. This is even more galling when you consider that SoundCloud is a paid platform: despite charging podcast hosts $13 a month to upload their shows, the site arbitrarily bans users without refunds or recourse.
While I haven’t been persecuted by SoundCloud that much compared to others—I’ve only had one of my podcasts banned so far—I know it’s only a matter of time.
Because of this, I’ve moved The Matt Forney Show to Anchor, a new podcast platform that has a superior set of features and is less censorious. As of this writing, all of my old podcasts have been removed from SoundCloud (since I need to pay a monthly subscription to keep them up), and old and future episodes of the show will exclusively be published on Anchor. I recorded a short podcast explaining the move:
If you followed The Matt Forney Show or listened to the MP3 downloads of Matt Forney Live via SoundCloud, you’ll need to subscribe to the Anchor page here in order to keep listening. If you’re subscribed to the show via the RSS feed or an external app such as the iTunes Store, you don’t need to make any changes.
Thanks to those of you who have listened to The Matt Forney Show and Matt Forney Live all these years, and stay tuned, because the show will go on.