Hubhopper vs. Substack

Hubhopper is the best tool to create podcasts and publish them from literally anywhere in the world. Also, they have a free listener platform where users can listen to the podcasts, anyone. It's really a good place to hang out, especially for our employees where we encourage them to hear podcasts of famous persons/motivators. We use Hubhopper to create podcasts from our channel and share them with our employees.

Incentivized

I think Substack is better for people who want to set up a personal-facing branded website vs people who just want to post random musings every so often. Monetization is better there than any other collective publishing platform as well as organic reach via email. Substack also allows you to build direct relationships with your readers via emails and own them 100% which is great long-term if you use it to pivot to another site or another form of writing/content creation. Substack would be less helpful for someone wanting to write as a part of a group, not individually, or someone who's unwilling to put their personal brand behind their content. It's less optimized for SEO (which other platforms allow you to do) and can be harder to curate content based on your interests (you really have to go in knowing what you want vs finding it on the fly).

Incentivized

• Can edit audio in the application itself
• Can create podcasts from the anywhere using the app
• in detailed analytics about user data

Incentivized

• Because it has a very high Domain Authority ranking relevant backlinks in a published article will help make my store more searchable.
• Substack is very easy to work in. The toolset they provide may not be as extensive as other platforms but it is certainly enough to create a meaningful, interesting post.
• Substack is very focused on creating a community of writers that support each other. They run an ongoing email campaign that reinforces their focus on building a community of writers.

Incentivized

• User analytics is really hard to interpret as the data representation is complex
• The app crashes at some point of time making the audio recorded will be lost forever
• Sometimes its hard to publish the podcasts as the app is still having some bugs

Incentivized

• editor is on the primitive side - it's wysiwyg, but missing some embed options
• integrate with google analytics
• percentage cut that Substack takes can become a burden as your revenue grows. Problems scaling.

Incentivized

It's simple and easy to use plus our employees love the app, except with some issues in the app everything is okay, and it's super easy to create and publish the podcast. Really easy to edit the audios in the platform and has the podcast listener portal used for free. Also, the player plugin is really simple and works well.

Incentivized

Medium is not so good for running newsletter. I find the mail that a user gets is very easily readable. Also as a creator it's very easy for me to track the analytics and monetise my blogs unlike Medium. Blogger is a very old technology. The kind of integrations and the support for Markdown / different media is very great in Substack.

Incentivized

• Increase in employee efficiency
• Better managing of podcasts
• Enable users to create podcasts easily
• Manage everything on the app

Incentivized

• I haven’t made any money from it
• Can be disheartening when you realise you’re putting in maximum effort for minimum audience

Incentivized