The honest stuff.

Yes - show.fm is hosting-agnostic by design. Every tool works whether your audio lives on Buzzsprout, Transistor, Captivate, or anywhere else with an RSS feed.

Most teams eventually consolidate (one bill, one feed URL, one source of truth), but there's no rule that says you have to. You can also run the reverse: host with us and keep your existing scheduler if it's already working for you.

Burnout usually comes from manual coordination, not from making the show. show.fm models the production pipeline as episode states - pending, draft, scheduled, published - and automates the steps between them.

Triggers fire on events that already happen ("booking confirmed", "episode publishes", "48 hours before recording"), so you're not babysitting a second system.

Batch a month of recordings, schedule them out, and the prep emails, reminders, and follow-ups run themselves while you're off doing something else.

You build show notes templates in your own voice once, and the system fills in the episode-specific details every time.

A library of magic tags - guest name, episode number, recording date, key links, custom fields you've defined - drops the right details into the right places, so every episode reads like you wrote it, because you did.

Notes draft into the episode automatically; nothing publishes without you pressing publish. The tone stays yours, the typing doesn't.

No - we import your existing feed with the original GUIDs intact, so podcast clients see the same episodes from the same show. No re-downloads, no reset stats. A permanent 301 redirect points your old feed URL at the new one, and your subscribers never notice the switch.

One honest caveat: if your current host has lost or never stored the original audio files (it happens, especially with older shows on cheaper plans), we can only migrate what's still there - the metadata always comes across cleanly either way. The migration wizard flags anything it can't match so you can spot gaps before you flip the feed.

Your data is yours. Episodes, transcripts, show notes, guest records, and prep docs sit in your account, served from a global edge network so the public feed and the guest portal feel instant wherever your audience is.

The guest discovery network is opt-in - guests decide whether they appear, on their own profile.

Export your data at any time, and point your feed URL elsewhere. If you ever want to leave, your audio files come with you and we keep the 301 redirect on your feed URL alive so nobody's subscription quietly breaks.