To say that Blubrry Podcasting is the host with the most is an understatement. We know, and hopefully, you know too that our hosting options are the best in the business. Yet sometimes it feels like we’re just not getting the word out as well as we should. We’re working on that!
Thus, here’s a breakdown of each of our hosting options and a few mentions of the other great services that make us the best in the biz. This is a great place to start if you or your friends are ready to start a podcast, switch or change up your hosting and/or expand your use of services and features.
A reliable podcasting hosting platform is at the heart of successful podcasting, ensuring effective content delivery to the target audience. Depending upon the requirements of a podcaster, the hosting platform of choice differs significantly. This difference stems from the level and depth of services offered. At Blubrry, we have every podcaster’s every need covered — and that includes college students, who get a 50% discount their first year of hosting.
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Standard Hosting ($12/mo, $120 annually)
The Standard Hosting Plan offers 125MB of storage each month. It’s a great place to start if you’re a newbie or looking for a limited plan. It also offers a free WordPress site, programmatic advertising opportunities, a free media kit updated daily, Podcasting 2.0 features, a listener demographics survey and, of course, our industry-leading support.
Advanced Hosting ($20/mo, $204 annually)
For not a whole lot more money each month, Advanced Hosting offers great tools and features including those with Standard Hosting and benefits such as Advanced Statistics, 400MB of storage a month, additional themes and plugins, dynamic advertising opportunities, video-to-podcast audio conversion, and access to the Thrive Bundle add-on, which includes Blubrry’s Podcast AI Assistant, Blubrry PAI.
Professional Hosting (Starting at $100)
With unlimited storage and unlimited account sharing, Pro Hosting offers all of the above, plus a network tool, full dynamic ad insertion (as in, you pick the ad placement), and a bunch more. Pro hosting is scalable for any network size and is a dedicated plan for those who have multiple shows, require additional storage (including video) and more. All the tools you need to monetize and showcase your shows while monitoring audience growth.
Private Podcasting (Starting at $150)
Private Podcasting gives you all the perks of pro, plus an internal solution for announcements, training, speakers, interviews, educators, and exclusive or bonus content. Private Podcasting also offers all the benefits of professional hosting and includes Vid2Pod video-to-podcast conversion service and, with the Thrive Bundle add-on, Blubrry’s Podcast AI Assistant, Blubrry PAI.
Blubrry’s podcasting hosting platform offers several other services to help podcasters enjoy their podcasting experience, such as the benefits of standard and advanced statistics, unlimited downloads, and a custom embed player, to name just a few.
We ensure that podcasters’ have a choice in using their own domain for their podcast. Our focus on monetization assistance with programmatic advertising, free WordPress site perks with the PowerPress plugin, and free episode switching set us aside from the crowd of podcast hosting platforms.
In addition to all the perks mentioned above, we hope you’ll check out our inexpensive add-ons, such as:
- Premium Podcasting – Monetize, treat your greatest fans and make new ones by enabling the premium subscription option.
- Transcription and closed captioning – Our web-based podcast player uses transcription products integrated with Rev, making every word actionable and accessible.
- Media Mastering – Our Media Mastering by Auphonic allows you to submit unmastered audio and process it into a mastered audio file that meets current podcast standards.
- Thrive Bundle – This outstanding add-on, for only $10 a month and offers:
- Our complete AI package, Blubrry Podcast AI Assistant (PAI), featuring podcast planning, podcast production, social clips and highlights creation.
- Dynamic Ad Insertion pre-roll to promote previous episodes or events in addition to ads.
- Episode comparison – compare five episodes with the trending episodes feature, and you can see which ones had a faster uptake from listeners.
- Listener and subscribers tracking, see if your show is growing and adjust.
- The Average Daily Plays Statistic is a unique metric that gives you insights to show your podcast’s growth and long tail consumptions.
- Quicklinks additional features with external hyperlink support, V4V, donation, & analytics to engage with your audience.
- Apple Podcast reviews within the Blubrry stats dashboard allow you to promote your accolades on social media.
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