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Clips, search and AI
The clip generator, the Podspun Dataweaver, word-level search, episode insights, the built-in AI assistant your audience can ask, and the Data API.
What is the clip generator?
Any moment in any episode becomes a captioned, branded clip in about two clicks, with no video editor and no second subscription. Video shows get video clips, audio-only shows get audiograms, and you can also export plain audio. Open an episode, pick the moment, and Podspun makes the clip with your branding ready to share.
What is the Podspun Dataweaver?
The Dataweaver is the engine behind Podspun. It imports your episodes, transcribes them, indexes every spoken word, and runs search, clips, and AI over your whole catalog. It works automatically: as you publish, the Dataweaver pulls in each new episode and keeps your site, search, and clips current with no manual step.
What can my audience do on my Podspun site?
They can search for any word or phrase and instantly jump to the exact moments where you said it. There is also an AI assistant built in, so they can ask questions and get answers straight from your content. Plus, they can browse auto-generated highlights, download or share quote cards, filter episodes by tags or length, and explore summaries and analytics.
Can my audience filter or explore content?
Yes. Visitors can browse episodes by title, date, length, or tags, and explore auto-generated summaries, insights, highlights, and badges.
How does Podspun spotlight the best of my episodes?
Podspun surfaces key moments, creates quote cards you can share or download, and adds badges and tags to each episode. Every highlight, quote card, and key moment links straight to its timestamp, so fans can easily find and share your best moments.
What kind of insights does Podspun generate for my episodes?
Each episode gets auto-generated summaries, key moments with timestamps, smart tags, and analytics like words-per-minute, grade level, and listening ease. You also get a simple channel-level overview so you and your audience can understand your content at a glance.
How does the AI answer, and how accurate is it?
It answers from your transcribed catalog, not the open web, so replies come from what was said in your episodes. Accuracy tracks transcript quality and how clearly a topic was discussed. It points back to the episodes it drew from, so a listener can check the source.
What formats and shapes can clips have?
Three outputs: a video clip cut from the YouTube video (YouTube shows), an audiogram (your audio with an animated waveform), or plain audio as an mp3. Three shapes: vertical 9:16 for Reels, Stories, TikTok, and Shorts; square 1:1 for feed posts; landscape 16:9 for YouTube and X.
You can burn in captions in three styles (Clean, Bold, or Highlight with karaoke-style word boxes), place your show's logo anywhere on a nine-position grid, and choose whether video fills the frame or shows whole over a blurred fill. Set your favorites once under Preferences in Clips and Thumbs Maker and every new clip starts there.
What is the title and thumbnail suggestor?
The Thumbs tab in Clips and Thumbs Maker. It suggests titles and thumbnails in your channel's own style, tuned to what already gets views. Pick a real episode to get alternative titles and thumbnail concepts, or describe a new episode idea to get titles in your house style before you record.
Each concept comes with an AI background image; you can regenerate it from a prompt or upload your own, add your logo and text, then download the finished 1280 by 720 thumbnail or save it to My Outputs. Titles and episode-frame previews are free; AI images and exact frame pulls get 5 free a month, then come in packs.
What is Idea Studio?
An AI brainstorm for clips, inside Clips and Thumbs Maker. It reads your episodes and suggests clip-worthy moments per show, you save the ideas you like to a board, and Render all can turn up to 12 suggestions into finished clips in one go.
What does Insights show me?
Insights shows what people do on your sites: page views, unique visitors, AI questions, keyword searches, and link clicks, over 7, 30, or 90 days or all time. Tabs split it up: Traffic (all the numbers together and the view it opens on: the time range, activity over time, top pages and episodes, what people asked and searched, where visitors come from), Narrative (how your episodes are built), Ideas (AI content ideas), Email Digest (a weekly stats email), and Ask AI (ask about your audience in plain words, answered from your real search and question data).
Detailed activity is kept for 90 days, daily totals forever.
Can I get my site stats by email?
Yes. Turn on the Weekly Email Digest in the Email Digest tab of Insights and every Monday morning you get one email with your last 7 days: views, top pages, top searches on your site, and form messages. It is off until you turn it on, we skip weeks with no activity, and you can turn it off in the same place.
Can I see what visitors searched for and didn't find?
Yes. In Insights, the Traffic tab lists searches with no results: the words people looked for on your site that nothing matched. It is a direct list of content your audience wants, which makes it a good source of episode and page ideas.
What is the Narrative tab in Insights?
It reads how each episode is built. Every episode gets a tension curve (how gripping the story is minute by minute), compared against your show's average shape, with a plain-language read of what the episode does well and where attention may dip. Curiosity spikes mark the moments most likely to hook a listener, and Coach this episode asks the AI for specific suggestions. Find it in Insights under Narrative.
Is there an API for my catalog?
Yes. The Data API gives you the same indexed catalog as token-gated JSON, so you can build with your episodes and transcripts anywhere: another site, an app, or an internal tool. It is account-scoped and uses your own key. Contact us at [email protected] to get set up.
Please let us know any questions we haven't answered: email [email protected].