Audio + Video
1 video podcast
72 upload hours/year
$300/year
Comparison for video podcast teams
Listenbox vs Buzzsprout for video podcasts
Buzzsprout is a strong choice for simple creators who want a low entry price, clear upload allowance, and RSS migration. Listenbox is built for teams that need explicit retained hosted-video catalog pricing and predictable archive growth.
Main difference
Upload allowance answers how much new media you can add. Hosted catalog hours answer how much generated video delivery archive stays online.
Listenbox unit
Stored hosted 1080p video hours
Retained generated delivery assets, not the original upload.
Buzzsprout unit
Video upload hours per year
Annual upload allowance for one or more video podcasts.
Listenbox prices the archive you keep online.
One retained video hour means one hour of source episode duration. Listenbox counts it once across Apple/open HLS, video RSS/MP4, segments, and generated audio. Derived outputs never multiply retained-hour usage.
The conservative reserve is 10 GB per hosted video hour. At R2 raw storage of $0.015 per GB-month, that is about $0.15 per hosted video hour-month before delivery, processing, analytics, support, and abuse review.
Plan
Price
Downloads
Hosted catalog
Starter
$30/mo
20K downloads
72 retained source-video hours
Professional
$99/mo
100K downloads
180 retained source-video hours
Business
$199/mo
250K downloads
300 retained source-video hours
Studio HD
$399/mo
250K+ downloads
450 retained source-video hours
Buzzsprout is priced around upload allowance.
Buzzsprout's Audio + Video entry is $300/year, shown as $25/month when billed annually, with 72 upload hours per year for one video podcast. Multi-podcast video plans raise the annual upload allowance for teams running several shows.
Buzzsprout also documents that existing RSS episodes imported after an upgrade do not count against the monthly upload allowance. That is useful for migration. It should not be stretched into a claim that any full video archive, such as a multi-terabyte library, is imported and hosted as video for free.
Multi-Podcast
Up to 5 podcasts
180 upload hours/year
$600/year
Multi-Podcast
Up to 10 podcasts
420 upload hours/year
$960/year
The comparison is unit, not cheapness.
Listenbox is not trying to be the cheapest video podcast host. Buzzsprout has a low, simple entry point. Listenbox is for creators and media teams who want the hosted video archive itself to be the pricing object, with Apple/open HLS, video RSS/MP4 delivery, and archive control treated explicitly.
Topic
Listenbox
Buzzsprout
Pricing unit
Retained source-video duration, counted once across every derived output.
Annual upload allowance for video podcasting.
Archive model
Plans name the retained hosted-video catalog size up front.
Strong fit when new uploads and simple migration matter most.
Delivery posture
Apple/open HLS, video RSS/MP4 delivery, and archive control.
Simple creator packaging with Apple Podcasts video positioning.
Migration read
Large retained video catalogs map to larger hosted-video tiers.
RSS migration can be valuable, but it should not be read as proof of free full-video archive hosting.
WVFRM shows why retained catalog hours matter.
A prior parse of the WVFRM RSS feed found 359 episodes and 466.7 published hours. At the conservative 10 GB per hosted video hour reserve, that is roughly 4.67 TB of generated hosted-video delivery assets.
Raw R2 storage alone would be about $70/month. That archive exceeds the 450-hour Studio catalog and needs negotiated Custom pricing.
Waveform / WVFRM example
Feed: feeds.megaphone.fm/STU4418364045 ยท Apple ID: 1474429475
Published episodes
359
Published hours
466.7 h
Generated hosted assets
~4.67 TB
Raw R2 storage
~$70/mo
Listenbox fit
Custom
Choose by catalog shape.
Pick Buzzsprout when simple creator pricing and upload allowance are the right frame. Pick Listenbox when the key question is how much retained hosted video catalog you want to keep online and control.