If you’re using podcasts regularly in your marketing, or are thinking of starting, you’ll almost certainly want somewhere to host them. That’s because the space, and especially bandwidth requirements of podcasting can soon become expensive if you simply add them to your website. You don’t need many downloads of a podcast that’s several MB in size to quickly exceed the basic bandwidth allowance of most traditional web hosting packages, requiring you to purchase additional bandwidth at a high rate.


This post from Tom Parish talks of an easy-to-use solution with unlimited bandwidth for podcasters he’s found at [Liberated Syndication->www.libysn.com].

Libsyn gives you a blog with a set of templates to choose from, and you can make changes to the look and feel if you’re comfortable making changes to scripts. It’s pretty easy; I made some quick changes myself. See http://www.wimaxpodcasting.com for my new Podcast series on WiMAX industry news with Tim Sanders.

Libsyn offers 4 levels of podcast syndication service for individual podcasters. Each service level contains the full set of libsyn features and unlimited use of bandwidth. This is a huge advantage over a conventional ISP account. If your podcast gets popular, you’re going to be paying very large monthly fees for bandwidth. Libsyn charges you only for your incremental storage needs each month as you add new podcasts.

All the RSS ‘stuff’ is handled for you, and they provide EXCELLENT metrics. What a great package. I don’t have enough experience with them yet to know how consistent and relaible their service is, though I’m hopeful.

Podcast Basic

$5.00 for up to 100MB per month of new storage

daily (M-F) 20-minute talk program, encoded in low-quality
weekly 30-minute mixed talk-music program
weekly 20-minute high quality music program

Podcast Standard
$10.00 for up to 250MB per month of new storage

daily (M-F) 20-minute talk program, encoded in hi-quality
weekly 60-minute mixed talk-music program
bi-weekly 30-minute high quality music program

Podcast Advanced

$20.00 for up to 525MB per month of new storage

daily (M-F) 35-minute talk program, encoded in hi-quality
daily 30-minute mixed talk-music program
bi-weekly 60-minute high quality music program

Podcast Professional

$30.00 for up to 800MB per month of new storage
daily (M-F) 50-minute talk program, encoded in hi-quality
daily 45-minute mixed talk-music program
daily 40-minute high quality music program

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