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By invitation & contract

Podcast infrastructure you hold in your own hands.

Demesne hosts, delivers, and measures audio and video on AWS — engineered so your media and your audience data never leave your control. Premium. Contract-only. A deliberately small roster.

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de·mesne
/dɪˈmeɪn/ · noun
Definition
The land a lord holds and works in his own hands — rather than leasing it out to another.
A near-homophone of domain, and an exact description of the wedge: your work, and the evidence of it, kept under your own roof.
The premise

The streaming era made your audience someone else's asset. We invert that.

  • Your audio lives where you choose.Centrally, or entirely inside your own AWS account. The choice is a flag, not a renegotiation.
  • Your listener data is never harvested.Never resold, never pooled into someone else's ad graph. In sovereign mode it never leaves your account at all.
  • We operate; you own.We run the infrastructure and the measurement. Custody of the raw material stays with you.
Two ways to hold

One platform. Two forms of tenure.

The same delivery, the same white-glove measurement. What differs is custody — and that is the entire point.

Allodial Tier · Sovereign

Held outright.

Free of any overlord.

Your audio and your listener data live entirely in your own AWS account. We operate cross-account and never take custody. Raw media and raw events never cross your boundary — only the aggregated rollups you choose to surface.

  • Media & raw event lake in your account
  • Client-held KMS keys & region pinning
  • Cross-account operation, least-privilege
  • The legal antonym of tenancy — you are not a tenant
By arrangement · flat contract fee
Managed Tier · Hosted

Held in trust.

Operated end to end.

We host and run everything in our AWS environment, isolated per client from day one. The same IAB-authoritative measurement and the same service — with none of the operational surface on your side.

  • Fully managed delivery on AWS
  • Per-tenant isolation & encryption
  • Same dashboard, same standards
  • Switchable to sovereign by a single flag
By arrangement · flat contract fee
Measurement
The number is the product. A wrong one is worse than a missing one.

Delivery is plumbing. What you actually buy is measurement deeper than any mainstream host — counted to the IAB standard, and answerable.

Authoritative
Nightly IAB batch, recomputed from a retained raw lake — so history can be re-derived when the rules change.
Clean
Bots, crawlers and edge-security traffic excluded; range requests aggregated into one logical download.
Yours
The raw, replayable event lake is retained and partitioned by tenant — never queried live, never discarded.
Both media
Audio and video, measured the same way from the first episode.
Terms of the holding

How we work — and what we decline to do.

I

A flat contract fee.

Never a percentage of what you earn. For high earners, the absence of a cut is itself the offer.

II

Admission by introduction.

No self-serve signup, no open market. A deliberately small roster — by design, not by limitation.

III

AWS-native, end to end.

Built on infrastructure-as-code, reproducible per client. Onboarding is one reviewed, parameterized deploy.

IV

The promise is never broken.

In sovereign mode, your raw audio and raw listener data never leave your account. There is no exception clause.

Enquiries

Admission is by introduction.

Demesne is not sold on the open market. If your work warrants it — and the fit is mutual — we will find the conversation.

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