RSS.com

RSS.com hosts the files and sends the show to the apps. Every plan, including free, says unlimited episodes, audio, and downloads. You get a simple site and a player. Free is one local or niche show. Paid plans add program ads, extra shows, video files, and a sales desk for networks that run their own campaigns.

It is for a weekly host who wants a real forever-free host, not a 90-day teaser. It is also for a small catalog that will pay for ads and more shows. It is for video in the apps that take it, and for a shop that needs its own campaign tools. It is not only a starter host.

What people keep saying is the price. The Podcast Host's 2026 list still puts RSS.com in the best-value slot and in the free-host six. Podnews covered their program ads: they can start from about 10 downloads a month, PayPal from $1, and they say creators typically keep 70%. Joe Casabona walks host comparisons on YouTube. He also evangelizes for RSS.com, so treat that as a friendly walkthrough, not a blind review. MakerStack still calls it no-frills hosting with extras that newer apps can read.

Free is not the ads plan. Turn those ads on and listeners hear program spots. Help is clear: no download cap, but they want a card on the free account to verify it. Leave later and the feed the apps read still has to move.

Start on free. Import the old feed. Publish one episode and listen in an app. If you want ads, pay for Plus and keep those ads off until you hear a test. If you wanted ads on a free host, that is Spreaker or RedCircle. If you wanted WordPress, that is Castos. If you wanted a SiriusXM ads desk, that is Simplecast.

If unlimited files at $0, then a cheap ads and video ladder, is the job, it holds. If you wanted a specialist editor or a network sales contract from day one, pick something else.