[citation needed] They established the company as Emayhem in 1998, as an art collective / publishing platform created for Pittsburgh artists and musicians to share their work online.
They morphed that business into a web design firm called Webmayhem in 2000 and in 2004, they started the Emayhem Radio Podcast and created their first RSS feed.
In an effort to save money, Mansueto leased some cheaper servers and laced them together, effectively creating a content delivery network (CDN).
This CDN would become the first podcast hosting platform, allowing independent creators to upload media and syndicate it.
[citation needed] The founders named this new venture “Liberated Syndication” with the goal of allowing creators the freedom to have their voices distributed and heard everywhere.
[7][non-primary source needed] By 2021, the company served more than 75k podcasting customers with more than 7 million active episodes.
In November 2021, Libsyn's AdvertiseCast Marketplace acquired certain assets of Podgo Media LLC, a firm representing smaller podcasters giving those publishers access to some of the largest brand advertisers in the sector.
[15][non-primary source needed] In Feb 2021, Libsyn acquired Auxbus, another podcast creation platform.
[16] [non-primary source needed] The company relaunched Auxbus as Libsyn Studio, a program designed to guide podcasters through planning and creating content.