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What is the most cost effective place to host a podcast?
By cost effective I mean both inexpensive and easy to use.
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http://www.mypodcast.com/
It's free, simple to create, and there are promotional tools available for you.
I might also suggest you record your own podcasts with your own software and upload them to use on your own domain on your own blog - you have to do more marketing to get folks to listen to you, but you have a lot more control. You can also grow your own list, email mailing list, subscribers, etc, without someone else getting their information instead.
If you decide to do your own on your own blog or website, join podcast circles and groups on other social networking sites to promote yourself and your podcast!
Hope this helps!
It's free, simple to create, and there are promotional tools available for you.
I might also suggest you record your own podcasts with your own software and upload them to use on your own domain on your own blog - you have to do more marketing to get folks to listen to you, but you have a lot more control. You can also grow your own list, email mailing list, subscribers, etc, without someone else getting their information instead.
If you decide to do your own on your own blog or website, join podcast circles and groups on other social networking sites to promote yourself and your podcast!
Hope this helps!
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This blog entry was from 2006 so the offer may not still hold, as there are also more users and the system is busier, but Jason Calacanis gives an example of a kind of podcast hosting that is done for free for promotional purposes with some free advertising for the company on there.
http://calacanis.com/2006/03/16/free-hosting-for-your-podcast/ However, this is an example of a kind of podcasting that I think would be the most cost effective, it is completely free, the host company pays for technical staff, finds volunteers and paid staff to help, and the studio and equipment is located on the company premises so you personally are not paying rental or upkeep or buying the space and have a small studio to work out of that may also hold a live audience. Jason's studio I believe had $10,000 dollars worth of equipment in it. In fact, Jason himself could not resist a studio with such great equipment and staffing and got sponsorships for shows there and also does a weekly podcast so the corporation ALSO has zero costs except for the space, Jason's show site is here http://thisweekinstartups.com/ This Week in Startups
I remember reading about it on the web when Kevin Pollack took up Jason's offer to make Kevin Pollack's Chat Show, so you can track back how it works on his website, twitter, and on the web, here is his chat show site: http://kevinpollakschatshow.com/
Another example of a corporate setting that is doing a similar thing is the sponsor of the podcast for Lisa Kudrow for a comedy about therapists which I think was the luxury car company Lexus although their podcasting central site with many shows linked to it is called another name, look in the fine print somewhere.
If you can find and get this free corporate deal, I don't know how you can find anything more cost effective.
Equipment cost for professional quality equipment and studio: zero. Advertising budget: zero as you can find a blog free, or they may provide web space for you to advertise it also the corporation will advertise your show in some way for free.
Staffing: zero, the company picks up the tab or finds volunteers
Overhead: zero, bring your own clipboard and on screen clothes, there may also be some kind of a show budget you can tap depending on your particular agreement with the company.
Quality control, editing, uploading costs: zero - professional staff or those trained to do are provided by the company.
Of course if you are located in an isolated area and not near such a studio for live podcasting, then for you it may be a great option to use whatever equipment you have, or get a mac that is high enough end to have all that built in and ready to go as they are well known for easy to use and high quality equipment especially for multimedia but that is a suggestion, and software you can find free on the web if there is not enough already loaded on your multimedia computer. The better quality equipment you have the better it will look, HD quality means higher end equipment needed and cost. I don't think you can get into corporate sponsorship setups off the street with no track record of something valuable to offer/previous experience though as you sound like you have. Kevin Pollack has made 20 films, has a large fan base, and even though he did not know anything about technology when he started that made him a good prospect for bringing value to the table for his work. Lisa Kudrow also had been in front of the camera in Friends Bratz Punky Brewster and now Bandslam so they knew she could handle in front of the camera work, also she was recommended by a producer who negotiated a brand new podcast comedy show based on her ideas. While there are other people who are not famous, yet, like Sarah Atwood who has done a lot of podcasting for others in their shows she started out and is most steady at using her Mac to film herself and upload it herself. So, you may not have all the options right away but may have more later as you learn the trade and become more established.
http://calacanis.com/2006/03/16/free-hosting-for-your-podcast/ However, this is an example of a kind of podcasting that I think would be the most cost effective, it is completely free, the host company pays for technical staff, finds volunteers and paid staff to help, and the studio and equipment is located on the company premises so you personally are not paying rental or upkeep or buying the space and have a small studio to work out of that may also hold a live audience. Jason's studio I believe had $10,000 dollars worth of equipment in it. In fact, Jason himself could not resist a studio with such great equipment and staffing and got sponsorships for shows there and also does a weekly podcast so the corporation ALSO has zero costs except for the space, Jason's show site is here http://thisweekinstartups.com/ This Week in Startups
I remember reading about it on the web when Kevin Pollack took up Jason's offer to make Kevin Pollack's Chat Show, so you can track back how it works on his website, twitter, and on the web, here is his chat show site: http://kevinpollakschatshow.com/
Another example of a corporate setting that is doing a similar thing is the sponsor of the podcast for Lisa Kudrow for a comedy about therapists which I think was the luxury car company Lexus although their podcasting central site with many shows linked to it is called another name, look in the fine print somewhere.
If you can find and get this free corporate deal, I don't know how you can find anything more cost effective.
Equipment cost for professional quality equipment and studio: zero. Advertising budget: zero as you can find a blog free, or they may provide web space for you to advertise it also the corporation will advertise your show in some way for free.
Staffing: zero, the company picks up the tab or finds volunteers
Overhead: zero, bring your own clipboard and on screen clothes, there may also be some kind of a show budget you can tap depending on your particular agreement with the company.
Quality control, editing, uploading costs: zero - professional staff or those trained to do are provided by the company.
Of course if you are located in an isolated area and not near such a studio for live podcasting, then for you it may be a great option to use whatever equipment you have, or get a mac that is high enough end to have all that built in and ready to go as they are well known for easy to use and high quality equipment especially for multimedia but that is a suggestion, and software you can find free on the web if there is not enough already loaded on your multimedia computer. The better quality equipment you have the better it will look, HD quality means higher end equipment needed and cost. I don't think you can get into corporate sponsorship setups off the street with no track record of something valuable to offer/previous experience though as you sound like you have. Kevin Pollack has made 20 films, has a large fan base, and even though he did not know anything about technology when he started that made him a good prospect for bringing value to the table for his work. Lisa Kudrow also had been in front of the camera in Friends Bratz Punky Brewster and now Bandslam so they knew she could handle in front of the camera work, also she was recommended by a producer who negotiated a brand new podcast comedy show based on her ideas. While there are other people who are not famous, yet, like Sarah Atwood who has done a lot of podcasting for others in their shows she started out and is most steady at using her Mac to film herself and upload it herself. So, you may not have all the options right away but may have more later as you learn the trade and become more established.
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The Best Places to host
1. On your own servers.
2. Dedicated Server(virtual/non virtual doesn't matter). It fast and very reliable as long as you get a good provider.
3. Shared hosting with unmetered bandwidth(. You don't necessarily have to have unmetered, you just want it very high into TBs is a minimum requirement.
(there is a problem with shared they can be very slow, because people are accessing not just your sites data, but others as well(if you didn't know already)
Tips for choosing:
Make sure you have high bandwidth, TBs are a must for podcasting, the more the better, but hosting providers usually warn you when your reaching the limit, and some allow you to change your bandwidth limit(an increase in monthly fee), which is a lot cheaper than paying for overages.
When paying pay month to month, you never know whats going to happen tomorrow to the site, or the world for that matter. Better to loose a little amount of money rather than a 12X that.
Hosting Providers recommendations:
1.Mediatemple: I consider them the best provider some of their clients include SONY,ADOBE, and MASHABLE. This provider is really good if you you go with the Dedicated Server option. Now they have a very good shared its called grid-service(there were a little kinks when they rolled it out, but its very stable now).
www.mediatemple.net
2.Dreamhost(they have a shared with unmetered bandwidth, I am not 100% sure they will allow to have host it, but it is a rock solid provider.
www.dreamhost.com
Distribution Channels(dont host, but can increase you audience size significantly)
ITUNES does not host your podcast, but you should defiantly help you gain an audience (http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/creatorfaq.html).
ODEO another good site to get you podcast out into the world.
Hope that helps, and good luck!
1. On your own servers.
2. Dedicated Server(virtual/non virtual doesn't matter). It fast and very reliable as long as you get a good provider.
3. Shared hosting with unmetered bandwidth(. You don't necessarily have to have unmetered, you just want it very high into TBs is a minimum requirement.
(there is a problem with shared they can be very slow, because people are accessing not just your sites data, but others as well(if you didn't know already)
Tips for choosing:
Make sure you have high bandwidth, TBs are a must for podcasting, the more the better, but hosting providers usually warn you when your reaching the limit, and some allow you to change your bandwidth limit(an increase in monthly fee), which is a lot cheaper than paying for overages.
When paying pay month to month, you never know whats going to happen tomorrow to the site, or the world for that matter. Better to loose a little amount of money rather than a 12X that.
Hosting Providers recommendations:
1.Mediatemple: I consider them the best provider some of their clients include SONY,ADOBE, and MASHABLE. This provider is really good if you you go with the Dedicated Server option. Now they have a very good shared its called grid-service(there were a little kinks when they rolled it out, but its very stable now).
www.mediatemple.net
2.Dreamhost(they have a shared with unmetered bandwidth, I am not 100% sure they will allow to have host it, but it is a rock solid provider.
www.dreamhost.com
Distribution Channels(dont host, but can increase you audience size significantly)
ITUNES does not host your podcast, but you should defiantly help you gain an audience (http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/creatorfaq.html).
ODEO another good site to get you podcast out into the world.
Hope that helps, and good luck!
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Libsync seems to be used quite extensively by lots of podcasts. It starts at $5 for 50MB of storage (per month) to $60 for 1500 MB of storage (per month).
http://www.libsyn.com/account/
Libsyn also provides storage calculator to determine which service level is suitable for your podcast.
Some other key features:
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- RSS Feed Creation
- Web and FTP Uploading
They also have a sandbox where you can try before you sign up.
http://www.libsyn.com/account/
Libsyn also provides storage calculator to determine which service level is suitable for your podcast.
Some other key features:
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- RSS Feed Creation
- Web and FTP Uploading
They also have a sandbox where you can try before you sign up.
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the most cost effective place to host a podcast would be itunes, because millions of people acess it every day to look for music or something new that looks interesting. its not that expensive and many people will see it and subscribe.
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