Fountain

Connect your Fountain-hosted podcast to bring episode download totals into Sponsy. You can fetch metrics from a slot, use automatic sync, or include the fetch step in an automation.

Connect your account

You need a Fountain API key that can read your hosted podcast feeds and their statistics. If you do not already have a key, ask Fountain for API access. Fountain's API documentation describes bearer-key authentication but does not document a self-service key creation screen.

1. Open Settings → Integrations → Fountain in Sponsy.
2. Enter your Fountain API key and connect the account.
3. Open your podcast publication's Settings → Integrations.
4. Select Fountain, then choose the podcast feed to use for this publication.
5. Set the reporting timezone to match the calendar dates you use for episodes. The default is UTC.

Keep the API key private. Sponsy uses it to read feeds, episodes, and statistics. The integration does not publish episodes or change your Fountain account.

Choose which placements use Fountain

If the publication has more than one metrics connection, choose Fountain as the source for the podcast placements that should use it. You can make that assignment in the placement editor or the integration's Placement metrics section. See placement metrics sources.

How episodes are matched

Sponsy finds published episodes whose publication date matches the slot's date in the integration's timezone. Make sure the slot is dated for the episode's release day.

If there is no matching episode, the sync reports that no episode was found. If several episodes match the same day, Sponsy reports an ambiguous match so you can check the setup. It does not choose an episode based on its title or guess between same-day releases.

What the metric means

The imported number is Fountain's total downloads for the matched episode. It is not a count of unique listeners, verified ad impressions, or people who heard the sponsored segment. The slot date identifies the episode; it does not limit downloads to that day.

Each successful refresh replaces the saved download total with the latest value. An error keeps the previous metric. Fountain does not supply newsletter-style opens or link clicks through this integration.

Fetch and troubleshoot

Open the slot's metrics tab and choose Get slot metrics to test the connection. After confirming the right episode is found, enable the publication's automatic sync setting or use a metrics-fetch action in an automation.

• Key rejected or no feed access: check that the key is valid and has access to the hosted podcast. A key for another Fountain account will not expose your feed.
• No matching episode: check the episode's published date, the slot date, the selected feed, and the reporting timezone. Unpublished episodes do not match.
• Several episodes on the same day: the current date-based matcher needs one episode for that date. Enter the intended episode's downloads manually for that slot, then contact Sponsy with the slot and episode links so we can help.
• Downloads differ from another podcast dashboard: compare the same episode and metric. Fountain's download total is not a unique-listener or ad-delivery measurement.

Fountain is a new integration. If a feed or statistic behaves differently for your account, send Sponsy the slot and episode links. Do not include your API key.