Clips, search and AI

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.

Podspun reads each episode for its strongest moments: pulled quotes, highlights, key moments, and hooks such as a reveal, a cliffhanger, a tease, an open question, or a conflict. Each card in Suggested clips in Clips and Thumbs Maker names the kind of moment: Quote, Highlight, Key moment, or a hook (Reveal, Cliffhanger, Tease, Open question, Conflict).

The AI reads the transcript around every moment Podspun found, chooses where the clip should start and end (opening on the hook, closing on the payoff), and rates that clip 1 to 5 for how well it works on its own: 5 grabs attention in the first seconds, pays off (surprising, funny, emotional or useful) and makes sense without the rest of the episode; 1 is filler or needs context. Hover the bars to see the reason.

The Rating dropdown beside the show picker chooses which clips show. All ratings mixes them: the ratings take turns (a 5, a 4, a 3 and so on), newest episodes first, and the same episode never shows twice within four cards. 5 only, 4 and up, and 3 and up show just those clips; pick 5 only to see your best. Make all makes the clips the list is showing, each as its own clip. The rating you pick is remembered on this browser.

A new episode is rated in the background, usually within a few minutes; until then its moments show their kind alone.

Make all, beside Refresh suggestions, makes every suggestion on screen (up to 12) in one click. Each clip uses your saved Preferences and its own show's logo, and an episode with no video becomes an audiogram. They appear in My Outputs.

In Clips and Thumbs Maker, type the word or name in the box under Find every moment, at the top of the Clips tab, and click Find moments. The Find moments window lists every time it is said, across all your episodes, grouped by episode, with the most mentions first. Exact words matches whole words only, so Nick does not match Nickelodeon. Same idea finds moments about the same thing, even when other words are used.

Tick the moments you want (up to 10), from as many episodes as you like, and click Bring these into the clip editor. The clip editor opens with them as the moments of one clip, in the order you ticked them, and you trim each one there. Episodes YouTube won't play outside YouTube are left out.

Yes. On the Clips tab, tick several cards (Use in a clip) and press Make one clip from them in the bar at the bottom, or tick moments in the Find moments window. In the clip editor, Moments in this clip sits at the top of the Trim tab. Click Add a moment and pick From this episode, From another episode, or Search all episodes (the Find moments window). A clip holds up to 10 moments and up to 3 minutes in all.

The clip plays the moments one after another. Click a moment to select it: the player, transcript and timeline then work on that moment. The arrows move a moment earlier or later, and the × removes it. Between moments chooses a straight Cut or a short Fade. If any moment has no video, the clip is made as an audiogram.

They are the optional extras in the clip editor, on the tab each belongs to. Everything goes into the clip file you download:

• Title on the video (Captions tab): a line in a white box at the top, for the first 3 seconds or the whole clip. Click a suggestion to use it, or type your own.
• Progress bar (Captions tab): a thin bar along the bottom that fills as the clip plays.
• Sound (Finish tab): Even out volume brings the clip to a steady loudness. Cut long pauses removes silences longer than a moment.
• Also make (Format tab): the same clip in more shapes. Each shape is another clip in My Outputs.

The Caption to copy, on the Finish tab, is not in the file. It is text for when you post the clip yourself, and it shows in My Outputs with a Copy button. Podspun never posts for you.

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. Four shapes: vertical 9:16 for Reels, Stories, TikTok, and Shorts; portrait 4:5 for Instagram and Facebook feeds; square 1:1 for feed posts; landscape 16:9 for YouTube and X.

Captions burn the spoken words into the clip. Pick one of six looks (Clean, Outline, Box, Spoken, Headline, Word Box), how many words show at once (1 to 6, or a whole line), and the size and position. More options sets the font, letter case, text color, a color or box for the word being said, an outline, a box behind the line, and a shadow. The colors offered are white, black and the colors of the website the show is on; the rainbow dot opens a color picker for any other. The preview shows exactly what the clip will. You can also 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.

Upload a brand logo per show under Preferences, and it goes on every clip from that show. If you have split a feed into virtual channels, each virtual channel gets its own logo, so a clip carries the logo of the show it came from.

Some YouTube videos carry limits set by their uploader: they can be blocked from playing outside YouTube, limited to certain countries, or removed from YouTube entirely. A clip can't be previewed or rendered from a video YouTube refuses to serve, so Clips and Thumbs Maker leaves those episodes out of Suggested clips instead of offering a clip that would fail.

Photo-only Instagram and TikTok posts are also left out, since they have no video or audio to cut. The episodes themselves stay on your sites either way.

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.

An AI brainstorm for clips, inside Clips and Thumbs Maker. It reads your episodes and suggests moments per show. Under Ask for clip ideas, on the Clips tab, say what you are looking for and press Get ideas; Try an example fills the box for you. Tick a card (Use in a clip) and press Make clip in the bar at the bottom to open it in the clip editor, where you review the exact transcript before making the clip. Refresh suggestions analyzes the eight newest video or audio entries in the selected show. The update time appears above the suggestions.

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.

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.

Yes. Visitors can browse episodes by title, date, length, or tags, and explore auto-generated summaries, insights, highlights, and badges.

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.

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.

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.

Analytics shows what people do on your sites: page views, unique visitors, AI questions, keyword searches, and link clicks, for the days you choose in the date dropdown beside the Report button: Today, Yesterday, the last 7, 30 or 90 days, All time, or days picked in its calendar. The calendar reaches back to your first day of data, with busier days shaded darker: click a day to see that day, or click a second day to see every day in between. A day runs midnight to midnight UTC, and for one or two days the Activity over time chart shows each hour in your own time zone. Traffic includes the visitor funnel, conversion rate, gross checkout revenue, form submissions, email signups, member joins, purchases, memberships, and donations. What converts connects those confirmed actions and revenue back to the traffic source, referring site, landing page, and UTM source, medium, campaign, term, and content that brought the visitor in. It also shows session quality, landing and exit pages, common journeys, and top content. Campaign Tracking lists the UTM tag values on the links people arrived by, one list per tag (UTM Source, UTM Medium, UTM Campaign, UTM Term, UTM Content), with the tag's name beside each heading. Questions asked (AI search) and the keyword search lists show how many times each was asked, and when more than one ask came from the same visitor, how many different people asked it in brackets, so one person repeating a question does not look like many. Current ranges are compared with the previous matching period; today has no comparison, because the day is not over.

Individual activity and journey detail are kept for 90 days. Daily totals, conversions, revenue, and campaign attribution are kept for historical reporting.

In the Traffic tab of Analytics, Outbound and campaigns lists the clicks that left your site: plain outbound links, affiliate cards, and cards that point at an outside auction house. Each row shows where the click went, the placement, campaign, and item recorded on the link, the source that brought that visitor to your site, and the number of clicks. Filter the table by destination, placement, campaign, or item, and sort any column.

The three click counts are separate from each other and from checkout revenue. Native auction bids, awards, and settlements are counted on their own, with the settled amount shown under settlements. These are clicks. A sale at the retailer, a festival registration, or a vote is not confirmed by a click; those figures only come from a report the partner supplies. Row detail covers the last 90 days; the counts cover the selected range.

Yes. In Analytics, Top episodes shows each episode's page views, and in brackets how many of those visits started it playing. A play is counted once per visit to the episode page, when the episode starts, including when it starts by itself as the page opens.

Plays are counted for audio episodes, for TikTok and Instagram posts set to "Podspun player", and for YouTube videos set to "Auto play videos". A YouTube video set to "Click start to play" or "Link out to YouTube" plays inside YouTube's own player or on YouTube, which does not tell your site, so those plays only show in YouTube's own numbers. Plays were first counted on October 6, 2026; earlier days show views only.

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 the Analytics & Insights under Narrative.

Yes. In Analytics, 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.

Yes. Turn on the Weekly Email Digest in the Email Digest tab of Analytics 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.

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.

Yes. The AI Chatbot is available on free accounts, including before you import content or publish a website. Analytics and clip or thumbnail generation become available once your site is turned on. Open the AI Chatbot tab in Analytics & Insights and type a question the way you would ask a person: how your websites did last month, what visitors search for that you have not covered, which episodes get the most views, how your email campaigns are doing, or how many members joined. It looks up your account’s own numbers (visitors, searches and questions on your sites, your shows and posts and their topics, your social numbers, email campaigns, contacts, and members) and answers from them. It never guesses a figure it did not look up.

Ask for content ideas and each one comes with the evidence behind it, such as a search visitors typed or a topic you have not covered since a date. The AI Chatbot only reads: it does not change settings, send email, or edit a website. Chats are saved in the list on the left, per person. Double-click a chat’s title to rename it, and use the × to delete it. The charts and tables are on Analytics.

In Podspun Dataweaver, the Status column of a show says, for example, "10 episodes could not be transcribed" when Podspun tried to download and transcribe those episodes and gave up. It appears before every other status, including Awaiting payment. Search, topics and quizzes cannot use those episodes because they have no transcript. Most often the show's podcast host refused the download. Write to us through Contact / Feedback with the show's name and we will look at it.

A page on your Podspun website that reads every episode, post, and article you have published and shows what is inside them: the topics that come up most, the newest topic, quotes and moments from inside the episodes, and the periods your archive falls into. Each finding links to its source, and the page is rebuilt each day.

Podspun Full ($49 a month, or $529.20 a year) and Enterprise. Podspun Light imports and indexes your channels but has no website, so it has no page for a Live Portrait to live on.

The lines on the page are built from counts and links, not prose written about you: which topics appear, how often, in which episodes or posts, and when. The topics, quotes, and moments themselves are the insights Podspun discovers in your transcripts and captions.

Yes. Live Portrait reads posts the same way it reads episodes: video posts through their transcript, photo posts through their caption. New sites built from a TikTok or Instagram account include a Live Portrait from the start.

New sites built from TikTok or Instagram include it. On any other site, open the website editor and choose Live Portrait in the Podspun Dataweaver section. Settings has a Live Portrait tab where you can write your own introduction and switch individual sections on or off.

Each day. New episodes and posts sync in automatically, and the page rebuilds from the whole archive, so the opening piece, the newest topic, and the counts change on their own.

Both. On a podcast site it reads episodes and their transcripts. On a site with several channels it reads podcast episodes, YouTube videos, TikTok and Instagram posts, and published news together.

Visits, episode plays, clicks, and the questions people type into your site's AI search, all in one dashboard inside your account.

No. Every Podspun site reports on its own, so there is nothing to paste in and nothing to configure.

They are the words your audience uses to ask for things. Reading them tells you what episodes, topics, or answers people actually came looking for.

No. Those count audio downloads. Podspun's insights are about your website: who reads, searches, and plays on the site you own, plus what your email and clips drive.

They are included with the Dataweaver. Yearly billing is $313.20 with 1,600 catalog items included. Monthly billing is $29 with 800 items included. There is no separate analytics fee.

Yes. Because email and clips run inside Podspun next to the site, you can see traffic move when you send a newsletter or post a clip.

It is a tool that turns a moment from your episode into a short, shareable clip with captions and your branding. Podspun makes video clips, audiograms, and audio cuts in about two clicks.

Yes. Export a moment as a vertical video clip for Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube Shorts, as an audiogram, or as a plain audio cut.

Yes. Captions are generated from the transcript and burned into the clip, so it reads on mute without any extra work.

It reads the full transcript and suggests the lines most worth clipping, so you start from a shortlist instead of scrubbing the whole episode.

Every account gets 3 clips free each month. Past that, clips come in packs of 25 for $20, added to your monthly bill, with no per-clip charge.

No. There is no timeline and no second subscription. You pick a moment, pick a format, and the captioned, branded clip is ready to download.

It is a tool that creates episode thumbnails and title ideas. Podspun builds them in your channel's own brand template, using real frames from the episode, so each one looks like it belongs to your show.

Yes. It exports a 1280 by 720 PNG, the size YouTube expects, using a key-moment frame from your episode and your brand template.

It learns your palette, fonts, and logo placement from thumbnails you have already made, then keeps new ones in that template.

The suggested titles are shaped by what already earned views on your channel, so they are tuned to your audience rather than generic.

Suggested titles and frame previews are free. Generating an image from a prompt or pulling an exact key-moment frame counts toward 5 free a month, then comes in packs of 10 for $5 on your monthly bill.

Yes. Type a future episode idea and Podspun will suggest a title and a thumbnail for it, so you can plan the look before you record.

Podspun does. Every Podspun website has an Ask box that answers a visitor's question from the show's own transcripts and posts, and lists the moments it used with a link to each one. It is part of the website, with no separate chatbot to install or train.

From your own episodes and posts. Podspun transcribes every episode it imports, and the answer is written from the parts of those transcripts that match the question.

Yes. Each moment under the answer shows the episode, the words said and the time, and opens the episode at that point.

Yes. Every question typed into the Ask box is listed in your website's analytics in Podspun Cloud.

Each account includes 5,000 questions a month. Past that, questions cost $10 per 1,000.

Yes. A website built from Instagram or TikTok answers from the captions and the spoken audio of the posts, and a News post on the website can be cited the same way.