Per minute, Murf Creator works out to about 16 cents and ElevenLabs Creator about 18. The bigger difference: ElevenLabs lets you clone your own voice on its $6 plan, Murf keeps cloning for Enterprise. podcasthostlab.com/best-ai-voic...

Because of Youtube's introduction of "engaged views", its homepage now be like:

Running more than one show? Check whether your host charges per podcast. Transistor's $19 Starter plan covers unlimited shows under one 20,000-downloads-a-month cap, so a second show doesn't mean a second bill.

Since Aug 24, YouTube counts a view from the first frame, autoplay included. The old, stricter count is now "engaged views," and three podcast ad agencies say that's all they'll buy on. If your video podcast views jumped, this is why. podnews.net/update/engag...

Descript's $16 plan drops the watermark but caps you at 10 media hours a month. The $24 Creator plan triples that to 30. Budget for the raw recordings you upload, not the length of the finished episode.

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Buzzsprout's free plan gives you 2 hours of uploads a month, but it only hosts each episode for 90 days. Fine for testing a show. Not fine for a back catalog you want new listeners to find next year.

👀AI replicas of podcast hosts' voices beat announcer-read ads by 26% on new paid subscriptions in a test by IPVanish and Blue Wire. The real hosts still won by 9%. If you sell ads on your show, expect someone to ask to license your voice.

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