Podbean

Podbean hosts a show and then tries to pay for it: a patron programme, dynamic ad insertion against its own advertiser marketplace, and premium episodes sold per episode or by subscription. That is a different shape from hosts that stop at the RSS feed, and it suits a show whose audience is small enough that a network will not call back. The free account exists to get a first episode published; the paid bands lift storage and open the monetization tools.

A free account publishes with limited storage. The paid bands are $12, $29, $79 and $99 a month, each showing its own annual saving of between 20 and 29 percent. The tiers lift storage and bandwidth and open the monetization tools, the advertiser marketplace and the private and premium podcast features. What each band takes from money you earn is not stated on the pricing page.

A show whose audience is loyal but too small for a network to return the call, and which would rather try three monetization routes in one place than wire up three tools. The free account suits someone testing whether they will keep publishing at all. A podcaster who only wants hosting and their own analytics is paying for machinery they will not switch on.