PodPilot360Podcast hosting that also makes your clips
PodPilot360 hosts your show: CDN-backed audio, an Apple-compliant RSS feed, chapters, download analytics, and your own episode website. That part is table stakes, and several good hosts do it well. The difference is what happens after the file lands. The same upload that becomes your episode also becomes your captioned vertical clips, your longform video, your titles and descriptions, and a publishing schedule that runs itself. As far as we know, no other podcast host does that half.
What podcast hosting actually is
Three jobs, and it is worth naming them because the word gets stretched. A host stores and serves your audio files. It generates the RSS feed that is your show’s identity in every directory. And it counts downloads, which is the only reason you can ever tell a sponsor how many people listen.
What a host does not do is publish you to Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You submit your feed URL once, yourself, and from then on both directories pull in whatever is new. The submission guide has the exact steps and the four things that get feeds rejected.
What to look for in a host
Use this on us and on everyone else. The differences between hosts are small and technical, and they only become visible at the worst moment.
An Apple-compliant RSS feed you do not have to hand-write
Apple validates categories, artwork dimensions, owner email, and enclosure tags, and it rejects feeds over any of them. A good host generates the whole feed from your episode data so a malformed tag is never something you can cause. Ask whether it emits Podcasting 2.0 tags too, because the apps that read them are the ones your most engaged listeners use.
A CDN that answers range requests
This is the technical detail that decides whether scrubbing works. Podcast apps ask for byte ranges so a listener can jump to minute 40 without downloading minutes 1 through 39. Generic file storage often refuses, and playback then fails in ways that look random and are nearly impossible to debug from a listener report. Episode URLs also have to be stable forever: a URL that changes breaks every already-downloaded episode.
Download analytics you can actually use
Downloads counted per episode and across the show, over time. Analytics come from whoever serves the files, which means they are not portable: the numbers stay with the host that recorded them. Get an export before you ever move.
Chapters
Chapter markers turn an hour of audio into something a listener can navigate. Apple Podcasts renders them, and so do the Podcasting 2.0 apps. Most hosts support them and most podcasters never add them, because doing it by hand is tedious enough to skip every week.
An episode website and an embeddable player
Somewhere to send people who are not in a podcast app yet. A page per episode with listen-on links and a player you can drop into a newsletter or a blog post is the difference between a link that converts and one that asks a stranger to figure out which app they own.
A clean way out
Ask before you buy: will you publish a permanent redirect from my feed if I leave? A host that says yes is confident in the product. A host that hedges has told you something important. We publish the redirect, and we would rather you never need it.
What PodPilot360 hosting includes
Every paid plan carries the same hosting. The plans differ in volume, not in capability.
- Built-in hosting with an Apple-compliant RSS feed. Generated from your episodes, so there is no XML to write and nothing to break by hand.
- CDN-backed audio with stable, range-supported episode URLs. Scrubbing works, the validators pass, and the URL you publish today is the URL that still resolves in three years.
- Loudness-normalized audio at −16 LUFS, the Apple standard, applied to every episode automatically rather than being your job in a mastering chain.
- Chapters on every episode, for Apple Podcasts and Podcasting 2.0, built from the transcript instead of typed out by you.
- Your own podcast website with listen-on links, sharing, and an embeddable player.
- Download analytics per episode and across your show.
- Listing on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: submit your feed once, then new episodes appear automatically. We verify afterwards that the listing took, so you are not guessing.
- Optional one-click audio cleanup: vocal EQ and long-silence trimming, if the recording needs it.
The part that is not hosting
Here is the actual argument for paying us rather than a $19 host. A host takes your finished file and puts it in a feed. It does not know your episode has a good moment at minute 12, it cannot write your YouTube description, and it has never heard of your posting schedule. So you buy a clipper, a writing tool, and a scheduler, and then you become the wiring between them.
One upload here produces the episode and everything around it: word-level transcription with speaker names, AI-picked clips each with a title, hook, and score, vertical 1080×1920 shorts with word-timed burned-in captions, a longform 1080p video as a static cover or an animated audiogram, your brand kit applied throughout, auto-generated titles, descriptions, and hashtags, a blog post and social captions, and quota-aware YouTube publishing anchored to your release date. Nothing gets moved between tabs, because there are no tabs.
Everything included on every plan
- Upload one recording, audio or video, and we run the whole pipeline automatically
- Loudness-normalized podcast audio (−16 LUFS, Apple standard) on every episode
- Optional one-click audio cleanup: vocal EQ and long-silence trimming
- Word-level transcription with speaker names
- AI-picked clips, each with a title, hook, and score
- Vertical 1080×1920 shorts with word-timed burned-in captions
- Longform 1080p video: static cover or animated audiogram
- Your brand kit applied: logo, intro and outro, and caption style
- Auto-generated titles, descriptions, and hashtags for every clip
- A blog post and social captions drafted from each recording
- Commercials that rotate into your publishing schedule
- Release-anchored auto-scheduling: shorts before and after your drop
- Quota-aware YouTube publishing with automatic backpressure
- A publishing calendar in your timezone, with one-click cancel
- Built-in podcast hosting with an Apple-compliant RSS feed
- Chapters on every episode (Apple Podcasts and Podcasting 2.0)
- Your own podcast website with listen-on links, sharing, and an embeddable player
- Download analytics per episode and across your show
- List on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: submit your feed once, then new episodes appear automatically
- CDN-backed audio hosting with stable, range-supported episode URLs
Pricing
Hosting is not sold separately, because it is not a separate thing here. Plans are priced by how many episodes you publish, not by minutes of source audio, so a ninety-minute interview costs the same as a twenty-minute solo.
Growth
$99 a month
For creators publishing every week.
- One podcast episode a week (4 every 4 weeks)
- 2 short clips per episode, posted after it goes live
- 1 commercial in rotation (weekly)
- Up to 6 scheduled uploads / day
- Priority rendering
Studio
$249 a month
For studios and high-output shows.
- Two podcast episodes a week (8 every 4 weeks)
- 3 short clips per episode, posted after it goes live
- 2 commercials in rotation (weekly)
- Up to 8 scheduled uploads / day
- Priority rendering
Agency
$499 a month
For agencies and high-volume operators.
- Up to 20 podcast episodes every 4 weeks
- 3 short clips per episode, posted after it goes live
- 3 commercials in rotation (weekly)
- Up to 12 scheduled uploads / day
- Priority rendering
Full details, including what the free tier does and does not cover, are on the pricing page.
Who this is not for
Two cases where you should buy something else, and we would rather say so now than take a month of your money finding out.
- You want hosting and nothing else. If your clips and metadata are already handled, or you do not make clips at all, a standalone host at $12 to $25 a month does the feed part perfectly well and you will not miss the rest. If you want it for nothing, our guide to free podcast hosting covers the genuinely free options and their catches.
- You are video-first with no RSS feed. Then hosting is dead weight and what you actually want is a clipper. Opus Clip alternatives for podcasters runs through that category, and PodPilot360 vs Opus Clip includes the credit math and the cases where the clipper wins.
Moving an existing show
Bring your current feed URL. Your back catalogue comes across, and your old host publishes a permanent redirect so subscribers move with you without noticing. Do not skip the redirect: without it, every existing subscriber quietly stops receiving episodes, and because nobody unsubscribes you cannot see it happen. If you leave us later, we publish the redirect for you on request.
See the output before you move anything
Upload one episode free, no card. You get the transcript, the captioned vertical shorts, the thumbnail, and the metadata, rendered end to end and yours to download. Hosting and publishing start on a paid plan, so this is a look at the work rather than a live feed. Use an episode you have already published, so you can judge the clips against moments you would have picked yourself.
No card. One episode, rendered end to end, yours to download. Publishing starts on a paid plan.
Next: how to turn one episode into a week of content, which is the same process this runs, written out so you can do it by hand.