Getting Our Podcast Listed In iTunes And Libsyn Hosting

My podcast is on iTunes. Getting The American Fathers Podcast on iTunes wasn't difficult, but there were key decisions that had to be made.

First and foremost, which hosting company to choose?

I Chose Libsyn to host my Podcast

My main considerations in choosing Libsyn to host my podcast were:

• Ease of use
• Reliability of the service
• The feed 
• Price

Libsyn seemed to be the choice of professional podcasters that have been around for a while. 

Libsyn is also consistently listed among the top three podcast hosting companies by citizen reviewers of such services.

The price was comparable to other types of internet hosting services.  

The post Podcasat media hosting explained and compared, on the website The Audacity to Podcast, includes a helpful listing of the primary podcast hosting companies compared according to storage space. 

Comparison of podcast media hosts 

As of January, 2014, here’s how each of them stack up. 

• LibSyn offers “monthly reset storage” with unlimited bandwidth for fixed monthly fees. 
• Blubrry will soon offer “monthly reset storage” with unlimited bandwidth for fixed monthly fees. They will also offer up to 25% of padding for when you need a little extra space near the end of your term. 
• PodOmatic offers fixed storage with monthly bandwidth limits for fixed monthly fees. 
• SoundCloud fixed and unlimited storage plans, based on minutes of audio (not file size), with unlimited bandwidth for fixed monthly fees. 
• Spreaker offers fixed storage plans, based on minutes of audio (not file size), with unlimited bandwidth for fixed monthly fees. 
• PodBean offers “monthly reset storage” with limited and unlimited bandwidth plans for fixed monthly fees. 
• Amazon S3 and Rackspace CloudFiles offer unlimited storage with unlimited bandwidth for monthly fees based on how much storage and bandwidth you use. 
• Standard web hosting companies (like BlueHost or HostGator) offer fixed storage with fixed bandwidth (even though they claim “unlimited”) for fixed monthly fees. 

+David Jackson, in this YouTube video, does a great job comparing the stats offered through Soundcloud, Blugrry, Libsyn, and Podbean hosting services.
  

This is the last week of our kickstarter. Once our campaign succeeds we will begin recording and producing professional audio stories through the Libsyn service.