Podbean Reviews

Podbean.com is a popular platform for podcast hosting and distribution. Here are some of its key features and benefits:

• Easy Publishing: Podbean's intuitive interface makes publishing a podcast as simple as a few clicks.
• Unlimited Audio & Video Hosting: There are no limits on downloads, episodes, or recording time.
• Professional Podcast Website: Podbean includes a free podcast website with your account.
• Scheduled Publishing: You can upload your audio and schedule episodes to post at designated times.
• Cover Art Creator: You can generate your custom cover art in a few clicks.
• Distribution & Promotion: Podbean helps with tools to get your podcast in front of potential listeners.
• Social Media Auto Sharing: You can automatically post your new episodes to social networks.
• Amazon Alexa Integration: Your new episodes will be available on Alexa devices via the Podbean Alexa skill.
• Email Integration: You can collect email addresses and automatically share your new episodes to your subscribers via Podbean’s Mailchimp integration.
• Podcast Statistics: Podbean provides comprehensive statistics to help you track how your podcast performs.
• Monetization Opportunities: Podbean offers a variety of monetization tools, including Ads Marketplace, dynamic ad insertion technology, and Apple Podcasts Subscriptions Integration.

Podbean offers a range of pricing plans for podcast hosting:

• Free Plan: Podbean offers a free podcast hosting service.
• Unlimited Audio Plan: This plan costs $9 per month if billed annually or $14 if billed monthly. It offers unlimited audio podcasting, unlimited storage space, unmetered bandwidth, and distribution to all major podcast apps.
• Unlimited Plus Plan: This plan starts from $29 per month if billed annually or $39 if billed monthly. It is best for video podcasts and podcast monetization.
• Business Plan: This plan starts from $99 per month if billed annually or $129 if billed monthly. It is best for podcast networks and business podcasts.

All the paid plans offer advanced features such as custom design, your own domain, advanced podcast stats, and more. Please note that all Podbean subscription plans include a 7-day free trial.

Podbean.com accepts all major credit cards and debit cards as payment methods. If you have a payment card connected for your hosting fee, charges will be automatically attempted from your card when they occur. If you use other payment methods (ACH, Wire Transfer, etc.), you will be notified each time an invoice is generated and ready to be paid. On the “Payment” page, you can view or update your payment method, get invoices for your billing activities, check your account balance, and review all of your account's transactions. You can also view the current balance of your account on the “Payment” page. If the number is negative, it shows the amount that you owe for ad activities, which the system is unable to process the payment. Please click on "Replace Card" to update your payment info. If you make payment with card, the account balance is usually made up of funds returned from the ad campaign budget that is not used up. If you make payment with ACH or wire transfer, the corresponding amount will be recharged to your account balance. The current balance shows the remaining credit that can be used for your future advertising costs. All your transactions are displayed down on the “Payment” page with detailed information. You can filter your transactions by transaction type and time. Transaction type: You can filter to see all transactions, or just your payments, costs, adjustments, or refunds. Time: You can filter to see transactions of all time, or whichever of the most recent 12 months.