Record and Host a Podcast with Podbean

Starting a podcast has never been easier. Podbean is an easy and powerful way to create and promote your podcast. With Podbean you can publish your audio and video podcasts in a few quick steps. Your podcasts are easy to distribute and can reach Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, the Podbean Podcast app and more. Measure your success with industry-leading podcast statistics so you can track how your podcast is doing and get insights into your audience.

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Publishing

You’ll love how easy it is to get your podcast up and running. Podbean gives you all the tools you need for managing your podcast.

  • Easy Publishing: Get started without the learning curve. The intuitive interface makes publishing a podcast as simple as a few clicks.

  • Unlimited Hosting: No limits on downloads, episodes or recording time.

  • Professional Podcast Website: Podbean includes a free podcast website with your account. Choose from a variety of professional themes that you can customize to fit your needs.

  • Scheduled Publishing: Convenient publishing on your timetable. Upload your audio and schedule episodes to post at designated times.

  • Mobile Podcast Publishing: Publish podcast episodes right from your phone.

Distribution & Promotion

You want to get your voice heard. Podbean helps with tools to get your podcast in front of potential listeners and help you grow your audience.

  • All Destination Podcast Distribution: Easily get your podcast on all the places people listen, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and podcast apps.

  • Embeddable Players: Professional-looking, customizable players to embed your podcast on your websites and blogs. Single-episode and multitrack players in different sizes, shapes, and colors.

  • Social Media Auto Sharing: Podbean can automatically post your new podcast episodes to social networks once you connect them with your Podbean account. Podbean can also generate videos for use on Facebook, YouTube, and more

  • Amazon Alexa: As soon as you publish a new episode, it will be available on Alexa devices via the Podbean Alexa skill.

  • Podbean App: Your new episodes are instantly available in the Podbean apps for iOS and Android.

Podcast Statistics

Podbean’s comprehensive statistics give you all the insights you need to track how your podcast performs.

  • Downloads and Trends: Podbean not only provides you download numbers for each episode but also shows you the trends to better understand how your podcast is performing with your audience.

  • Top 10 Episodes: Podbean automatically summarizes all your downloads data and presents you the top 10 episodes for various date ranges. Easily identify which episodes get the most listeners and spot patterns to grow your audience.

  • Listener Geographies: See where your listeners come from on the map. View where your podcast is popular and your listener distribution so you can include relevant information, target sponsors and more.

  • User Agents: The user agents chart tells you which devices and apps your audience uses to get your podcast. Knowing the top apps, you can check your podcast there and explore opportunities to engage with listeners or further grow your audience.

  • Downloads by Time of Day: Wondering what days and times are best to release new episodes? Downloads by time of day shows you which days of the week and at what times your podcast gets the most listens. Make sure episodes are out in time to take advantage of peak listening.

  • User Retention: Podbean provides unique user retention data to let you know how attractive your podcast content is to your listeners. The graph shows the percentage of listeners retained over the recent weeks.