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Aram

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2023

The Transistor experience

Overall I am a firm believer that support is the canary in the coal mine for products. It demonstrates to me that the internal team loves the product, and this means that loving hands are making the food. Our entire team is loving the experience and we hope more people jump on board.

PROS

Hands down, some of the best customer support I've ever experienced. I mean above and beyond to ensure things were working correctly and troubleshooting our internal issues that were honestly out of scope for their team, but they dealt with it anyway.

CONS

That I didn't find them sooner. So much wasted time on our prior solution and so much lost marketing value for missing key technical issues.

Reason for choosing Transistor

Support and simplicity. Their product is on target, and their team is extremely knowledgeable in this domain. We needed experts to make sure we never need to think about these issues again and that's exactly what we got with Transistor.

Reasons for switching to Transistor

I don't want to disparage anyone, but the previous tool was clunky, slow, and created many feed errors.

Lani

Entertainment, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2022

You cannot do better than Transistor.fm

Exceptional service. I had one minor problem with a service they provide that is otherwise amazing. In five days, they had re-programmed their system to make what was already great that much better. I have never been so stunned by customer service in my life; at least, not in a good way.

PROS

--Automatic, seamless YouTube uploads. --A dedicated web page for your podcasts. --The ability to create and run your own ads and swap them out with pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll options. --Truly seamless switching from your previous host (I was terrified; they made it SO easy). --Easy distribution to all the podcast distributors I've ever heard of and many I hadn't. --The best customer service I've ever experience with any company, ever, hand to God. --Competitive prices. I pay the same amount I did for LibSyn and get so much more.

CONS

There is nothing I don't like about the software. It's intuitive, sleek and best of all - it works.

Reasons for switching to Transistor

LibSyn wasn't working for what I wanted to do. Basically, I just got hosting from LibSyn. At Transistor.fm, I got hosting and so many features I needed that I didn't even know I needed. For the same price.

Jordan

Media Production, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2023

A Great Podcast Hosting Solution, Could Use A Few Improvements

Overall, Transistor has been great for my business. Fast and easy episode uploading, management and publishing. Simple to teach clients how to manage their show as well, which frees up my time!

PROS

I've found Transistor very effective for me to manage my various client's shows. The ability to assign them as contributors to their won shows and train them on how to post their episodes and update their information has been invaluable. The GUI is simple and pleasing, and easy to navigate. Audio quality for the shows is great, and I have not had any issues shows not going live when scheduled.I had an issue once with a show being pulled off of some platforms, and Customer Support answer me immediately, informed me of a server issues somewhere in the ether, and then followed up when the issue was fixed.

CONS

I feel like the analytics are lacking. This may be less of a Transistor issue, and more of a Podcast Industry as a whole issue, but the analytics don't seems to drill down very far. If they could expand on those, I think that would put them ahead of the game from other hosting services. Additionally, I feel like the price point is very high compared to competitors, while not including much additional value. Other platforms have started adding various features without increasing their price point much - something to consider for Transistor, maybe!

Reason for choosing Transistor

A colleague was already using Transistor, so i was able to learn from them and have them help me get set up.

Patrick

Sports, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2023

Premium Podcast Feed + Multiple Podcasts on One Account

Overall Transistor is very easy to use and does what you want it to do. It's by far the best podcast host I've used.

PROS

The ability to host a premium podcast in addition to my traditional podcast feed has been huge for the initial growth of my subscriber-based business.I have been able to integrate the podcast feed with Zaper and Stripe, allowing a new payment in Stripe to auto-send an email with instructions on setting up the private podcast feed. I offer the podcast feed as a bonus feature of signing up for a paid subscription, and Transistor has made the process of doing this extremely simple. I literally haven't had to troubleshoot it once since setting it up. I also have multiple free podcast feeds that I manage under just one account. It's always been very strange to me that other providers don't allow this.

CONS

Not 100% sure how accurate the subscriber count is. The number is quite a bit lower for a long-running pod than the previous host had estimated. However, it's very possible that the previous host was incorrect.

Reason for choosing Transistor

The ability to host a premium/private podcast with payment integration is a major advantage that Transistor has over the field. You'll pay higher hosting fees to do this, but you don't owe anyone a cut of your revenue.

Reasons for switching to Transistor

The site was constantly logging me out and was a pain to use. They also only allow one podcast per account, which is bizarre.

Aj

Entertainment, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Took us to the Next Level

Transistor was made available to us via a local network and host. we were given admin permissions to run our own shows. transistor may be the best platform for hosting a network. easy to access all your shows seperately. over the course of 2 years one of our show grew to be acquired by a large network for monetization so unfortunately we had to move to their hosting. don't pass on Transistor. distribution was a breeze. easy to be setup to release to the world and start building and monitoring your audience.

PROS

easy to give admin permissions to run our own shows. transistor may be the best platform for hosting a network. easy to access all your shows seperately. distribution was a breeze. easy to be setup to release to the world and start building and monitoring your audience.

CONS

more options for dynamic ads are in the pipeline.

Reason for choosing Transistor

recommedation from friend. ease of use and learning the platform

Reasons for switching to Transistor

professional distribution and easier to use.

Merlin

E-Learning, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2022

Pros And Cons Comparisons Are Killer

I love it. And I love that you can reach out to the team and they're responsive. Big plus.

PROS

I like the cross-platform analytics the most.

CONS

The only place it's missing for me is video integration.

Reason for choosing Transistor

They gave me a fair pros and cons list vs all their competitors to help me quickly decide which was best for me.

Reasons for switching to Transistor

I wanted a service that I could see myself growing with.

Ayham

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Conscious team and business

Exceptional

PROS

How conscious they are. They are making me have faith again and not that everything is about profit and technicalities.

CONS

The website could be improved but that was already changed on their side and could be also better.

Reasons for switching to Transistor

Withe transistor you can have as many shows/ podcasts as you want for the same price/ subscription unlike how it is with many other hosts like Podbean

Bryant

Printing, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Transistor saves me so much freaking time

Transistor has paid for itself many times over in time savings and the leads it's helped us generate through our podcast. I highly recommend it if you're starting a podcast in 2023.

PROS

Transistor handles so much of the grunt work of running a podcast for us. I can't imagine trying to manage hosting our podcast files and then the distribution to Apple, Spotify, and all the other places our podcast now shows up.I was super hesitant to take up podcasting because it seemed like ‘everyone was doing it’ but the professional impact it’s had for my co-hosts and I on the Better Sign Shop podcast has been crazy. I like that the [sensitive content hidden] dogfood their own product – they run a podcast hosted on.... Transistor. And they have a lot of great content on how to start and improve your podcast on their website.I have to believe their own experiences come through in the app. It's super easy to use. It's only takes a couple minutes to upload and distribute an episode. And then I'm on to the next task on my todo list. Unlike the other podcast hosting apps I tested that seemed to be more focused solely on a "pretty" design instead of a straight forward user experience.The Transistor API is also great. We used it to pull our podcast episodes into our app so that our app users to could listen to the podcast while their were doing their work.

CONS

This is not really a knock on Transistor but more so on podcasting as a whole – podcast analytics seem like a bit of a guessing game. Probably because there's so many different players and the fact you're distributing an audio file so there's no real way to add tracking code like you can on a website. I did appreciate that they (Transistor) mention right up front that the subscriber statistics are hard to track and they provide a "best guestimate" along with an explanation of their calculation method.

Eric

Media Production, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Fantastic! I love Transistor!

Fantastic. Been with them for years now and I love it. Technical support is responsive and they are very quick to get things answered and fixed for me if anything comes up!

PROS

Extremely easy to use, very clean and simple interface, presents a lot of complicated data points in a simple way. Simple, flat pricing point. Has a very simple and clean web player for websites.

CONS

I would love to see a feature of batch uploading a lot of episodes into the system. You can create draft episodes without a file, but you cannot upload files into a "database" and then pull from that database as necessary.

Aaron

Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2023

Private podcasting made affordable and easy

They have great customer service.

PROS

Transistor made creating our internal training podcast super-easy to set up and manage. Their Zapier integration allowed me to add/remove users during onboarding and offboarding without ever needing to log into the platform, streamlining my workflow.

CONS

We only used Transistor for private podcasting, so I didn't really test out the vast majority of their features.

Jordan

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2022

Easy, Friendly, Intuitive, Powerful

PROS

It took me minutes to setup. Gorgeous interface. Everything you need and nothing more. Friendly pricing structure. AMAZING support staff.

CONS

There's no AI, ML and unicorns under the hood best I can tell.

Tiger

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2023

Awesome platform and great founders!

I like the support a lot, we. don't ask too often but when I do, they always available. Even [sensitive content hidden] still answers a lot of it.

PROS

ease of use, ability to distribute to ALL platforms, and customer support!

CONS

not all functionality is there yet for Spotify (hopefully this will be resolved soon)

Aaron

Entertainment, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Great hosts and customer service!

PROS

Really impressed with the quality of Transistor's staff. The overall set up and pricing helps running multiple shows much easier and cheaper.

CONS

There is nothing that I don't like about Transistor.

Reason for choosing Transistor

It allows for multiple shows.

Artur

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2022

Transistor.fm is the podcasting service you need.

Awesome!

PROS

Transistor.fm is the only podcasting service you need to start and run your show! [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and his team are on call 24/7 to help you fix any podcast-related issues that arise.

CONS

I have no problems with Transistor right now.

Reason for choosing Transistor

Because is the best

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