Buzzsprout

Buzzsprout is where your episode files live. You upload a show, add a title and notes, then publish or pick a time. The apps read it from there. Get listed once. After that, new episodes go out on their own. You also get a simple website, captions you can edit, chapter marks, and download counts. Video is a different plan. Extra ads and AI tools sit on the side. You can ignore them.

It is for a first season, or one show, when you want a checklist and a real person at support. It is not for a network. Extra-show plans stop at five or ten shows, and those shows share the allowance for the billing period. If you need lots of feeds, or charts wired into other tools, people already leave.

The appeal is a publishing workflow with hosting, an episode website and support in one service. Check the upload allowance and archive policy against the length and frequency of your show. Support responsiveness has not been independently benchmarked here.

Monthly upload time is one limit to check. Leftover monthly time does not carry over; annual plans use a yearly pool. You spend it when you upload, not when the episode goes live. Yearly plans cannot buy extra minutes. You jump to a bigger plan. A second show used to mean a second bill. You can share a few shows now, but there is still a ceiling. Charts stay simple: downloads, where, which app. No map of where people quit. Video means a different plan. Review names and technical terms in AI-generated copy.

Publish one thing before you get listed. A short trailer counts. Do that about a week before launch. Buzzsprout will not submit you by itself, so you keep those listings if you leave. Moving in: copy the old episodes first. That copy does not eat this month's time. Keep the old host live 60 to 90 days. Moving out: copy into the new host, then tell Buzzsprout to send listeners there, and keep Buzzsprout live 60 to 90 days. The RSS redirects guide is the overlap rule. Your old charts stay behind. Hide the Buzzsprout site if you already have a real one.

Buzzsprout is a publishing desk with a person on the other end, not a network control room. The upload pool and the show limits are the deal. If help and a Get Listed button are what you wanted, it holds. If you need unlimited hours or many feeds, people already leave.