Podbean vs. Substack

Great for working and gathering information about the food industry. I use it regularly. I do not use the video function too often as it's not appropriate for my job role however, it's incredibly easy to use and seamless. The picture and sound quality are also very reliable and sharp.

Incentivized

It's well-suited for a creative writer who is comfortable writing essays or short fiction. It's especially well-suited for writers who are focused on writing essays based on personal experiences. I'm not sure it has the tools at this point for someone who wants to serialize a novel or long-form non-fiction book. I'd like to see better multi-media tools for writers/content creators who are fluent in written and audio-visual methods of communicating.

Incentivized

• It's easy to navigate and doesn't take long to find what you need.
• The process for uploading video and audio podcasts is intuitive and hassle-free.
• Configuration is intuitive and straightforward, which is appreciated.
• Access to multiple Podcasting streams.

• Content organization/discovery - really easy to search.
• Newsletter/email integration - by far better at previewing and delivering content than any other site.

Incentivized

• Better analytics data. I would like to know what players people are using most.
• More obvious limitations of number of podcasts allowed in each pricing tier. Saying Business has unlimited number of podcasts is misleading if that is for unlimited private podcasts and only 2 public.

Incentivized

• It's really difficult when multiple people are editing the blog at same time. Some things change or get overwritten due to which have to reload the page multiple times. Would like to see an experience just like in Google docs.

Incentivized

For a personal podcast, I host on WordPress with a plugin called Seriously Simple Podcasting. This solution is a bare bones solution, good if you know how to manage a WordPress website and are able to submit your podcasts manually to different apps and services. If you can afford Podbean I would suggest using it because the WordPress route takes a lot more time and technical knowledge. Podbean takes so much of the hassle and work away from the process.

Incentivized

Substack is the DTC version of traditional blogging sites - you own everything, both upside, and risk, which appeals to me more. Compared to Blogger, the ability to monetize and site interface is night and day better. Compared to Medium, which I think has a better interface and content curation abilities, Substack's advertising and promotion of your work are much better because they don't rely on premium members like Medium - it can get very click-baity there.

Incentivized

• Great ROI because we don't have to use another service or change our process for posting
• The only negative impact was on my time when I had to manually post when the WordPress plugin was broken.
• We have things automated now, so it's a great positive impact

Incentivized

• Takes much much less time to produce content that you can charge for. This wasn't doable before, or you'd have to build it yourself
• Substack has made it much easier for me to stay on top of ex-customer communications. I get repeat business more easily now.
• Substack's speed & ease mean I can offload content writing & distribution to others

Incentivized