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Podbean Reviews & Product Details
Podbean is a podcast hosting and management platform built to empower businesses to create and publish online podcasts, live stream audio shows, and promote marketing campaigns. It provide customization options. The platform allows easy integration with social media channels and easily engage with Podbean audience comments.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Podbean Pros and Cons
- • Offers unlimited storage on paid plans.
- • Supports PodAds and Premium Podcasting for revenue generation.
- • Offers mobile app support
- • Supports live streaming
- • Limited features under the free plan
- • No automatic audio enhancement
- • Basic analytics
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I love the value and reliability of PodBean. We have used Podbean for around 18 months and currently host a weekly podcast with 73 episodes and moderately heavy traffic. PodBean has been reliable and affordable.
I have almost no complaints about PodBean. I would like to see more customizable themes and slightly more control over the look and feel of the podcast website, but overall I am very happy.
We host a weekly podcast. We have posted 73 episodes with an average length of 35 minutes, and we have moderate and steadily-growing traffic. The hosting has been rock solid and very affordable.
I began podcasting almost two years ago. When I started, I used another hosting site which left me craving more. PodBean is unbelievably easy to fire up. Whether you're a podcast newbie or a seasoned veteran, you'll be publishing episodes in no time, with many customizable options. Every step of the way is explained, and you can crank out up to 10 hours with their free plan (upgrades are available in 3 other tiers). There are opportunities to monetize your podcast for serious creators, and the app has special features that I've never seen on other podcatchers.
It is very hard to find a detailed explanation for refunds and cancellations on their annual premium plan. I would like to consider this upgrade, but not before I can appropriately research it.
I wanted a simpler podcasting experience. No nonsense, no fuss. If I do wish to upgrade, it's only going to cost me $9 a month, and I will receive the upgrades I need and want. I'm appreciative that they don't charge you an arm and a leg to move to the first premium tier.
The backend interface makes this one of the easiest to use podcasting platforms out there. They also facilitate a lot of the ways to post so they make it easy to push your podcast to iTunes (No easy feat without help) and they also connect you to Spotify which is another difficult to navigate interface. The download metrics are easy to make comparisons across platforms and episodes as well as geographic data.
There are some hidden features on the back end that should not be hidden- for instance there is a limitor on episodes that is auto enabled and that means if you post over that number of podcasts then the earlier episodes will be removed. This is NOT an easy setting to find so I had to reach out to support (who was helpful and very fast to respond!) but it seemed odd that it was so difficult to find.
We are posting and hosting our podcast! We also use this platform to monitor who is downloading and what platforms we do best with.
Ease of Use, customer service, dashboard is easy to navigate and support is prompt and helpful
Can't reach people without internet access.
Reaching a wider audience
For the technologically hopeless PodBean is easy to use and navigate. Staying current on trends and products is important in higher education. Podbean allows schools to share what they are doing easily and cheaply. More importantly for small colleges, it is a resource that we can use that wont hurt our budget. What I love is despite the lack of cost, there was enough energy put into this app that makes it easy to navigate. My colleges who care barely download an app have learned how to use PodBean without any trouble.
The auto download and delete is not always functioning correctly and can fill up my memory quite fast if I am not paying attention.
Since larger colleges are using PodBean to share and discuss trends and resources.
I loved that podbean allowed me to distribute my show to a wide variety of platforms from one easy place. It also provided really useful analytics on our show listeners from each platform and showed us the country, time, and other variables of who was listening.
It was a little bit pricey and we could have paid a lot more if we wanted even more features, but overall it was a useful service that did the job it was intended for.
I used podbean to distribute my podcast to several platforms at once, track the analytics of my show to determine who listens where and when, and store the recordings for each of my episodes in one convenient place. It also allowed me to type one description for each show and distributed that to each platform which saved a lot of time.
I've been using Podbean for over 2 years now and its a great hosting platform. The dashboard is clear and I have everything available to me that I need.
I would like to be able to customize the dashboard a little bit more.
With PodBean, I can easily upload my weekly podcast episodes so that I can move on to the next episode.
For first-time podcasters getting started, PodBean is well laid out, easy to use, and has some great tools to get started with your show.
It's a little basic and lacks in some of the advanced analytics that some other hosting sites have.
It's easy to use and host your podcast on. It has a low monthly cost for hosting which makes it great for new podcasters.
PodBean is very easy to use and simply to navigate and upload podcasts.
There are times when it is glitchy and not as responsive.
Getting our podcasts out to a larger audience.