Podbean vs Voxeus

Podbean is a podcast hosting and publishing service with tools for distribution, audience statistics, monetization, and private or video podcasts. It supports RSS feeds and distribution to major directories. Its iPhone and Android apps cover recording, publishing, statistics, and listening, and episodes can be automatically shared to Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, and WordPress. The Basic Free Plan provides 5 hours or 500MB of storage, 100GB of monthly bandwidth, up to three published episodes per day, a 100MB single-file limit, and up to 20 episodes in its RSS feed. Free hosting supports MP3 and M4A files, includes basic statistics, and does not require a credit card to sign up. Paid plans add options such as audio or video publishing, private podcasts, team access, and AI tools for audio optimization, content assistance, transcripts, and podcast creation. The listed Unlimited Audio plan costs $17 a month when billed yearly. Podbean also offers advanced, IAB-certified analytics and monetization features including an Ads Marketplace, dynamic ad insertion, and Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.

Voxeus is web-based audio distribution and monetization technology for publishers, with campaign services for advertisers and agencies. Its Audio Hub provides a podcast interface with a customizable audio subdomain, playlist generator and smart player. Discovery matches podcast content semantically with published articles and can insert a personalized audio player into pages. Analytics cover listening, completion and conversion rates, episode rankings, geolocation, listening heatmaps and advertising revenue reports, with data extraction for teams. The service works on any device without an app and is compatible with all hosting providers. Monetization includes audio advertising and native ads; the Audio Hub describes its audio advertising as IAB compliant. Advertisers can buy campaigns directly or through a DSP, monitor engagement and extract data in a dashboard. Formats include audio ads, pre-roll, host-read messages, co-branded episodes, branded podcasts and native ad slots. Pricing is paid and available on request.