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Découvrez comment implémenter facilement l’architecture BLoC dans Flutter avec ce guide pratique ! Apprenez à créer des applications plus robustes et plus faciles à maintenir.
## Flutter : Un Cadre de Développement d’Applications Mobiles Open-Source Très Populaire Créé par Google
Le logiciel Flutter est un cadre de développement d’applications mobiles open source très populaire créé par Google. Il permet aux développeurs de créer des applications mobiles, web et de bureau natives à partir d’une seule base de code.
Selon le dernier sondage mené par Google, plus de 50 % des développeurs Flutter ont utilisé le cadre depuis moins d’un an. Près de 90 % ont déclaré être «satisfaits» ou «très satisfaits» de Flutter. De plus, Flutter a été reconnu comme un cadre à hautes performances en matière de satisfaction et d’adoption des développeurs par de nombreux rapports de l’industrie, tels que les «résultats du sondage des développeurs 2020» de Stack Overflow et le rapport «Cadres de développement d’applications mobiles 2021» de GoodFirms.
Flutter offre aux développeurs une variété d’outils et de fonctionnalités pour faciliter le développement d’applications mobiles. Il comprend un kit de développement logiciel (SDK) qui comprend des bibliothèques, des outils et des composants pour créer des applications natives pour iOS et Android. Il offre également des outils pour le développement Web, tels que le navigateur Web Flutter, qui permet aux développeurs de créer des applications Web à partir du même code source que les applications mobiles.
Flutter offre aux développeurs une variété d’outils et de fonctionnalités pour faciliter le développement d’applications mobiles. Il comprend un kit de développement logiciel (SDK) qui comprend des bibliothèques, des outils et des composants pour créer des applications natives pour iOS et Android. Il offre également des outils pour le développement Web, tels que le navigateur Web Flutter, qui permet aux développeurs de créer des applications Web à partir du même code source que les applications mobiles. De plus, Flutter propose une variété de widgets personnalisables qui peuvent être utilisés pour créer des interfaces utilisateur riches et intuitives. Les widgets sont conçus pour être facilement personnalisables et réutilisables, ce qui permet aux développeurs de créer rapidement des applications à l’aspect professionnel.
Enfin, Flutter est livré avec un ensemble complet d’outils de débogage et de tests pour aider les développeurs à tester et à déboguer leurs applications. Les outils comprennent un débogueur intégré, un simulateur mobile intégré et un ensemble d’outils de test automatisés. Ces outils permettent aux développeurs de tester facilement leurs applications et d’identifier rapidement les bogues avant la mise en production. En outre, Flutter est entièrement compatible avec les principaux systèmes d’exploitation mobiles, ce qui permet aux développeurs de publier facilement leurs applications sur les magasins d’applications respectifs.
En résumé, Flutter est une plateforme de développement d’applications mobile très populaire et puissante qui offre aux développeurs une variété d’outils et de fonctionnalités pour faciliter le développement d’applications mobiles. Les outils intégrés, tels que le SDK, le navigateur Web Flutter et les widgets personnalisables, permettent aux développeurs de créer rapidement des applications à l’aspect professionnel. De plus, Flutter est livré avec un ensemble complet d’outils de débogage et de tests pour aider les développeurs à tester
La 2e édition du développement d’applications mobiles Xamarin pour Android est annoncée! Découvrez comment créer des applications riches et intuitives pour Android avec Xamarin.
« Xamarin Mobile Application Development pour Android » – Deuxième édition annoncée et disponible à pré-commander. Ce livre devrait être publié en septembre 2015.
Le livre intitulé « Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android » – Seconde édition est annoncé et est disponible à précommander. Ce livre est attendu pour être publié en septembre 2015.
Si vous êtes un développeur C# qui veut développer des applications Android et améliorer votre ensemble de compétences existant, alors ce livre est idéal pour vous. Une bonne connaissance pratique du C#, .NET et du développement logiciel orienté objet est supposée.
Ce livre est destiné aux développeurs qui souhaitent apprendre à développer des applications Android en utilisant Xamarin. Xamarin est un outil de développement logiciel qui permet aux développeurs de créer des applications natives pour Android, iOS et Windows à l’aide d’une seule base de code. Il s’agit d’une solution très pratique pour les développeurs qui souhaitent créer des applications natives pour plusieurs plates-formes à partir d’un seul code source.
Le livre couvre tous les aspects du développement d’applications Android avec Xamarin, y compris la configuration de l’environnement de développement, le développement d’interfaces utilisateur, le développement de services Web, le déploiement et la publication d’applications sur le Google Play Store. De plus, le livre fournit des exemples de code et des explications étape par étape pour faciliter la compréhension des concepts. Les lecteurs apprendront également à tester et à déboguer leurs applications et à les optimiser pour une meilleure performance.
Le livre est accompagné d’un site Web qui contient des exemples de code et des ressources supplémentaires pour aider les lecteurs à tirer le meilleur parti de leur apprentissage. Les lecteurs peuvent également accéder à un forum en ligne pour discuter avec d’autres lecteurs et obtenir des conseils et des informations sur le développement d’applications Android avec Xamarin. Enfin, le livre propose des exercices pratiques qui aident les lecteurs à mettre en pratique ce qu’ils ont appris et à tester leurs compétences en matière de développement logiciel.
Entretien avec Pierre Yves Tohmé, Manager Avant-Vente SAP
Le SAP Discovery Center donne une définition synthétique et claire de ce qu’est la SAP Business Technology Platform : une plate-forme capable de transformer les données de l’entreprise en valeur métier (“to turn data into business value”). La SAP BTP permet de tirer le meilleur de vos solutions SAP, en participant à :
- valoriser pleinement la data, issue de l’ERP SAP S/4HANA et d’autres solutions du SI de l’entreprise, venant de SAP ou d’autres éditeurs ;
- mieux intégrer l’ERP dans le landscape IT de l’entreprise, que ce soit au niveau des documents, flux, messages ou évènements ;
- étendre le champ de l’ERP, en lui permettant d’accéder plus largement à de nouveaux services : mobilité, IA, RPA, élaboration budgétaire, etc.
- et, enfin, faciliter le passage à l’ERP SAP S/4HANA, au travers des services de la SAP Business Technology Platform.
Ce dernier point est crucial pour des déploiements de SAP S/4HANA sur le Cloud, les spécifiques étant alors déportés sur la SAP BTP, afin de ne pas modifier le cœur de l’ERP. C’est une des raisons pour lesquelles la SAP BTP est une des composantes fondamentales de l’offre RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
À noter, la SAP BTP n’est pas uniquement dédiée à l’ERP SAP S/4HANA. Elle apportera ses bénéfices à toute solution souhaitant s’appuyer sur une plate-forme proposant à la fois des fondations technologiques solides et innovantes, et des fondations business capables de manipuler les objets, vues, flux, règles et processus métiers de l’entreprise. Cet enracinement dans les métiers, c’est ce qui rend la SAP Business Technology Platform unique sur le marché. Mais aussi ce qui lui vaut son nom…
Une multitude de cas d’usage potentiels
Avec plus de 100 services disponibles et une capacité à s’interfacer avec n’importe quel applicatif métier, les usages de la SAP Business Technology Platform sont quasi illimités. Deux cas d’usage font régulièrement l’objet d’un travail de conseil et d’orientation très intéressant avec nos clients.
Beaucoup l’utilisent pour personnaliser les règles de leur ERP SAP S/4HANA. Avec notre nouvelle génération de solutions, nous souhaitons proposer une approche consistant à sanctuariser le cœur de l’ERP, les spécifiques étant déportés sur la SAP BTP. Une approche qui trouvera tout son sens pour les déploiements réalisés en mode cloud public. À cet effet, la SAP BTP propose un vaste ensemble de technologies permettant de créer et déployer du code dont notamment l’offre low code / no code SAP Build, mais aussi par exemple les SDK mobiles dédiés à Android et iOS.
La BTP propose aussi une alternative efficiente à la stratégie consistant à répliquer l’ensemble des données business dans un data lake sous un format brut. Avec la SAP BTP, les données sont exploitées là où elles se trouvent, en conservant leur profondeur et leur richesse avec la même capacité à les centraliser. A cette fin, la SAP Datasphere vient d’être annoncée sur le marché.
Comment adopter les services de la SAP BTP ?
Le SAP Discovery Center est le point d’entrée pour découvrir les services de la SAP BTP. La facturation se fait à l’usage, avec la possibilité d’entrer ou de sortir librement d’un service.
Notez que les organisations ayant opté pour l’offre RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud bénéficient de crédits d’usage de la SAP BTP. De quoi essayer des services, voire d’en supporter les premiers coûts, sans frais complémentaires.
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Déboguer des sites web peut être une tâche difficile, mais en utilisant les outils de développeur Safari, cela devient plus facile et plus rapide !
Safari : le navigateur par défaut sur les iPads, Macbooks et iPhones
Je suis un scientifique excité qui vient de faire une découverte sensationnelle : Safari est le navigateur par défaut sur les iPads, Macbooks et iPhones. Il se classe deuxième dans les préférences des navigateurs, juste après Chrome. Ses plus de 250 fonctionnalités offrent aux utilisateurs des avantages remarquables qui le distinguent des autres navigateurs les plus populaires tels que Chrome et Firefox. De plus, la popularité de l’iPhone a entraîné une part de marché mondiale des smartphones de 53,6 % pour Safari.
L’année dernière, le nombre d’appareils actifs d’Apple a connu une augmentation significative à 1,5 milliard. Puisque la base d’utilisateurs continue de croître, Apple s’assure constamment d’une expérience utilisateur presque parfaite et d’une performance optimisée sur tous ses appareils.
Pour répondre à ces exigences, Apple a mis en place une base de données qui stocke des informations sur les performances et les préférences des utilisateurs. La base de données est mise à jour en permanence pour s’adapter aux changements des appareils et des systèmes d’exploitation. Elle permet également aux développeurs de créer des applications plus rapides et plus fiables qui s’adaptent aux besoins des utilisateurs. La base de données est également utilisée pour surveiller les performances des applications et des services afin de garantir une expérience optimale pour les utilisateurs.
Grâce à cette base de données, Apple est en mesure d’offrir une expérience utilisateur exceptionnelle et une performance optimale sur tous ses appareils. Les développeurs peuvent également créer des applications plus rapides et plus fiables qui s’adaptent aux besoins des utilisateurs. La base de données est donc un outil essentiel pour Apple pour offrir une expérience utilisateur optimale à ses utilisateurs.
This is an article from DZone’s 2022 Enterprise Application Security Trend Report.
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Building secure mobile applications is a difficult process, especially in the cloud. We must consider that mobile platforms, like iOS and Android, have completely different architectures and quality guidelines. Also, we need to take care of our cloud architecture on the back end. In this article, we will have a look at the top six security vulnerabilities, OWASP’s best practices for building/testing iOS and Android applications, and guidelines for iOS and Android. Last but not least, we will explore an example of DevSecOps for mobile applications.
We’re living in a world where video content is everywhere. So if you’re not creating videos, you’re probably consuming them. It’s a massive part of our online lives.
Video is also more popular than ever before. According to statistics, 78% of people watch online video content weekly, while about 55% of internet users view videos daily. And that number is only increasing as time goes on.
That means that if you want to be successful, it’s essential that you learn how to use video editing software and create compelling visual content for your business or personal brand.
When you’re ready to start editing your videos, you’ll want to consider a platform that’s easy to use, has plenty of features, and makes it easy to share and collaborate with others.
There are many video editing programs, each with its strengths and weaknesses. Some are free, and others cost money, but they all have something to offer.
Here are some of the best video editing tools on the market today:
1. Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is one of the most popular video editing software packages, and for a good reason. It’s an excellent tool for both beginners and professionals alike.
With Adobe Premiere Pro, you can create professional-quality videos, add motion graphics and effects, create titles, and much more. The software is easy to use, but there is a steep learning curve. If you’ve used Adobe Creative Cloud applications before, Premiere Pro will seem more familiar. That said, Creative Cloud Learning Center offers many materials for users at every level.
To start, open a project and import your video and audio files using the media browser. You can also use dynamic linking to bring in Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects files. Then create or edit the sequence, add titles to your video, and add transitions and effects. You can edit colors, mix audio, change speed, and export your video file.
The user interface isn’t too complex, considering it’s a video editing platform with many editing options. The UI consists of panels, a workspace, and a blue highlight. After using Photoshop and Illustrator for so long, the panels were easy to understand.
The best part? Premiere Pro’s customizable workspace!
You can arrange the panels however you want and save different setups for different projects or tasks. For example, you could have one workspace with your video and audio files open and another workspace with only your timeline open.
As you resize one panel, the other gets resized to adjust automatically—this makes it a cinch to move around the interface to find what you’re looking for.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the workspace:
- On top, you will see a menu including assembly, editing, color, effects, audio, graphics, and library.
- Assembly is where you import your files. You cannot simply drag & drop your files here.
- Editing is where you can mix your audio and video and drag & drop them into your timeline.
- The color area will give you outstanding control over your video colors.
- On the right side, you will see color balance details; on the left, you will see the Lumetri Scopes of your video clip.
Key Features:
- You can import single or multiple images from other Adobe applications such as Illustrator and Photoshop.
- You can add animated graphics and edit them.
- With Fram.io, you can get time-stamped feedback from the reviewers.
- It offers stunning video and audio transition effects and lighting effects.
- Version 23.0 offers the best titling toolsets, with the ability to bulk-edit your clip titles in the timeline and flexible alignment controls.
Pros:
- It offers a 7-day trial period, where you can try out all of its features to see if it is the right fit for your business.
- It has a flexible and customizable workspace.
- The site’s learning center is packed with valuable resources.
Cons:
- It takes some time to get used to it.
- It doesn’t offer a freemium version.
- The program has a lot of effects you may never use.
Pricing:
It starts at $20.99 for 100 GB of cloud storage.
2. Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate
Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate is one of Pinnacle’s more powerful video editing software. It lets you create stunning videos with accurate keyframing, high-level performance, and professional-level editing.
Pinnacle Studio’s interface looks like a mini version of Adobe Premiere Pro, but some crucial differences exist. For example, Pinnacle Studio doesn’t have as many effects or color correction tools as Premiere Pro.
The first thing I noticed when I started using the editor was its color grading controls. The toolkit lets you adjust your clip’s tone, brightness, hue, and other color levels.
You can also create animated video overlays to direct viewers’ attention to a specific part of the screen. These overlays can contain any image, logo, graphic, or text with a transition.
In addition to these features, you can also create video masks and edit YouTube videos, drone videos, 360 videos, and other types of videos.
Key Features:
- It lets you make targeted edits with motion tracking.
- You can create two types of video masks: shape masks & panel masks. You can use them to add creative effects to your video, censor a part of the video, overlay some elements of the video, and even use it to hide objects.
- Smart object tracking lets you create shape-aware masks in the video, and smart technology means you don’t have to recreate masks for each frame.
- Have you seen those popular gaming videos on YouTube? You can make them with MultiCam Capture 2.0 Lite, which allows you to record your screen and add audio overlays. This product is also suitable for making tutorial videos.
Pros:
- It offers MultiCam editing.
- Its UI is clean and easy to navigate.
- In addition, they have plenty of helpful information and learning material on their website.
Cons:
- It’s costly.
- With so many effects and detailed masking features, it can confuse some users.
Pricing:
It starts at $129.99 for the complete version.
3. Apple Final Cut Pro
Apple Final Cut Pro is a powerful video editing tool for Mac users. It’s been around for years, but it’s still one of the most popular options for video editing. The software has many features, from basic video editing to advanced compositing.
From editing, mixing, audio, motion graphics, object tracking, and color grading to plugins, cinematic mode, and effects, it offers everything a professional video editor would want.
There are many built-in effects and transitions which you can use to enhance your videos. For example, you can add titles and text to your footage by dragging the product onto your footage or clicking on it directly from the library window. This is much faster than using hundreds of effects individually, which takes much more time than this method!
In addition, the newest version of the Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 makes it easier to track down duplicate clips in the timeline and timeline index, as they’ll be highlighted automatically. It also improves speech clarity by using machine learning to minimize or adjust background noise levels. And it’s easier to move, rotate, and resize clips.
Final Cut Pro is also optimized for Apple Silicon, Mac Studio, and Macbook Pro, which means you can work with high frame rates with high performance. Let’s take a look at some of its key features.
Key Features:
- Apple Final Cut Pro lets you move and trim your clips seamlessly. It also enables you to pack multiple video and audio clips into one bundle with its compound clips feature.
- You can add metadata tags to your clips, which will help you find them quickly. You can create custom column views and sort your clips by proxy or media types.
- The Duplicate Detection feature highlights duplicate clips in the timeline.
- With its Multicam editing feature, you can automatically sync up to 64 angles of videos with different frame sizes, frame rates, and formats.
Pros:
- UI is easy to understand and navigate.
- It offers magnetic timelines.
- It provides a free trial.
Cons:
- Available for Mac OS systems only.
- Very expensive. If you need it for a shorter period, you cannot get a monthly or yearly subscription.
Pricing:
It costs $299.99 for a one-time purchase.
4. CyberLink PowerDirector
CyberLink PowerDirector 365 is a powerful video editing program that is especially easy for beginners.
What’s appealing about it is that you don’t need to have any experience working with editing software—PowerDirector provides amazing customizable templates. The templates save plenty of time, as they are organized into proper categories such as Beauty, Business, Design, Education, and more.
Focused on making video editing easier for people without technical know-how, PowerDirector offers essential editing tools with advanced features – such as Mask Designer for creating images, text, and custom masks.
It also has a Title Designer that lets you add animated stickers, shapes, and call-outs to your video. Choose from a drag-and-drop menu for motion graphics, sound effects, and special effects. You can also add animated stickers, shapes, and call-outs to your video using its PIP Designer.
Key Features:
- It offers AI Motion Tracking, which means you can add text and graphics that will directly follow the object’s motion in your video.
- It offers automatic AI Object Detection.
- You can use its Chroma Key feature to use the green screen effect.
- It lets you correct the colors in your video in one click.
- You can also use its preset lens correction feature to remove distortion in your video and change video speed.
Pros:
- You can add multiple trackers and apply different effects to each for motion trackers.
- A free trial is available.
Cons:
- If you apply reverse, it gets applied to the entire video.
- Expensive monthly subscription.
Pricing:
It starts at $99.99.
5. Apple iMovie
Apple iMovie is the best free video editing app that comes with all Macs and iOS devices. It’s also an excellent choice for beginners.
You can use iMovie to edit videos, add music and effects, and create slideshows. It’s also great if you need to make simple edits, such as trimming clips or adding transitions.
It allows you to create/edit your videos in 4 simple steps:
To start a trailer using iMovie, first select a theme from Apple’s pre-designed themes. Then add visual effects to your video. Next, add the music of your choice, choose one of Apple’s pre-designed templates, and your video is ready to export.
To make a movie, select a project and photos and videos to add from the library. You can record directly in iMovie before editing. Like other phone apps, you can add text, effects, and music to your video.
Next, trim and arrange your clips and images in the timeline. When you’re done with that, click the Add Media button to add a soundtrack to your project. Your track will be automatically placed in the beginning and will fit your clip length. You can also add sound effects by browsing and selecting from their built-in sound effects.
Next, add your titles and text. You can make title screens, end credits, or other text elements with this feature. In your timeline, click the clip and then click Titles in the toolbar and choose from the title styles to add your titles.
You can now add filters to your videos to give them a complete makeover. Click the Filter button and choose from the built-in filters, and then preview your video as you choose the effect.
Now, you’re ready to export your video file. To do so, click on the Share button in the project browser and then choose Email or Text Message.
Yes—it’s that simple. So simple that even a complete newbie can get started right away.
However, note that iMovie is suitable only if you want to create basic videos, such as slideshows, short clips, and home movies. If you’re looking for more advanced features like motion graphics or adding filters to your videos, then Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut Pro might be better suited for you.
Key Features:
- The Magic Movie feature allows you to create videos with pre-styled templates and added titles, music, and transitions.
- Storyboards: You can select from 20 storyboards with different genres, such as cooking or science experiment, and more.
- Cinematic Mode: You can edit clips shooted in Cinematic Mode on iPhone 13.
- Extra Special Effects: Add special effects such as slow-motion, speed it up, and use picture-in-picture and split-screen effects.
- High-Fidelity Filters: It comes with 13 video filters to help you add a professional and cinematic look to your video.
Pros:
- It’s free! If you have an iPad, Macbook, (or iPhone), then you already have access to iMovie.
- The app lets you crop, trim, and adjust the brightness of your footage before you start editing it, making it easier to start creating a movie right away.
- Lots of different templates are available for creating different types of videos (like slideshows with music)
Cons:
- Not available for Android, Windows, or Linux systems.
- It’s a basic video editing software – with limited editing options for professional video editors.
Pricing:
It’s free for all users.
6. Adobe Premiere Elements
Adobe Premiere Elements is a video editing program that offers the best of both worlds: it’s simple enough for beginners to use yet has enough advanced video editing features for professional editors to create stunning content.
The software also uses artificial intelligence to help you add cinematic effects to your movies.
Starting with the specifications, Premiere Elements offers a range of tools to help you resize and trim clips, add effects or overlays, and much more. In addition, its 2023 version comes with Adobe Sensei, which means you can add effects to your videos with one click. You can also use its newly-added audio tracks and slideshow templates to change the look and feel of your entire video.
You can also arrange your photos and videos in any way you want in the element organizer. It brings together all the photos from different locations on your computer and saves them there, so you don’t have to find them separately in different folders.
You can also import files from your camera or card reader by selecting the import option ‘From Camera or Card Reader.’
Adobe Premiere Elements offers a user-friendly workspace that groups its features into Quick, Guided, and Exper views. You can choose any of these depending on your level of expertise.
If you choose Quick, you can trim video clips, create a movie by putting photos and videos together, and also choose never to see this option again.
In Guided view, you can get a step-by-step guide throughout the creation.
Expert view offers more advanced tools and features – for example, an audio mixer or time-stretches abilities.
In addition, video tools let you mark and extract favorite moments, freeze a frame as an image, track moving objects, and smart-trim low-quality parts of the clip. You can adjust the audio balance with the audio mixer and narrate clips.
However, most of its features are designed for beginners rather than for professional videographers.
Key Features:
- AI & Automation: Premiere Elements uses Adobe Sensei AI technology to automate common video editing tasks. You can add effects used in some popular artworks, and the program will automatically adjust them to match the aspect ratio you choose.
- Guided Edits: It offers 26 different guided edits that you can customize to suit your needs.
- Templates: It offers plenty of slideshow templates, backgrounds, and patterns.
- Organization: It automatically organizes your files according to date, subject, people, and places.
Pros:
- It offers three views based on complexity.
- It provides in-depth guides for users.
- Guided edits are available.
- It offers a free trial.
Cons:
- It has limited features for professional filmmakers.
Pricing:
7. Clipchamp
Clipchamp is another easy-to-use video software for beginners on this list – and it’s ideal for small businesses looking to create videos for marketing purposes. It’s a template-based video editing program, so each stage of the process is faster.
The app comes with pre-shot videos that you can use in your projects. These videos are in a 16:9 aspect ratio, and they are royalty-free. Click on the stock video tab to add these videos to your project.
There will be multiple categories to choose from, and once you find your video, drag it and drop it into the timeline. Now you can start editing them!
You can also use its beginner-friendly video templates from the video editor homepage. Once you add a video to your timeline, it will automatically fit into the aspect ratio. But if you want to edit the video size, just click on the aspect ratio on the right side and choose from the options.
Now, you can make changes to the text and title. On the right side of your screen, click the text box and edit the text in the window that opens. You can also change other aspects of your project this way, such as the font, alignment, color, or transparency.
With its branding features, you can add logos or brand colors to your videos, which you can use in all of your videos.
Now, you can either use templates audio or add your own. If you want to upload your audio, upload it to the editor and drag and drop it into the timeline.
After that, you’re all set to export your video. Again, you can choose from three video resolutions: 480p, 720p, or 1080p.
Key Features:
- Video Editor: It comes with customizable templates, which you can trim, cut, rotate, crop, and add images and audio to. You can also balance color and do much more.
- Stock Library: Its stock library has free stock videos and audio tracks – you just have to add your own titles and other minor changes. It also comes with a free camera recorder which lets you add filters, balance colors, and adjust contrast in your footage.
- Text-to-speech: With its AI voice generator, you can choose from 170 voices to add a voiceover to your video.
- Green Screen: Remove unwanted elements while shooting using the green screen, then remove them while editing with the background removal feature.
- Video Overlay: You can spice up your videos with animated graphics, stock videos, transitions, and more using its built-in styles.
Pros:
- There Are so many templates to choose from.
- It’s very affordable and also offers a free version.
Cons:
- It offers limited options for professional filmmakers.
- Rendering takes more time than it should.
Pricing:
It starts at $11.99 per month or $119.99/per year (if you pay yearly).
8. Coral VideoStudio Ultimate
Coral VideoStudio Ultimate is one of the powerful video editors that starts you with basics and takes you through very advanced editing features.
To get started, you have to import your media into the library folders. Then, you can simply drag and drop your files or click on the import button and choose your file from the media browser.
Just like any other video editing software, you can drag and drop your media files to your timeline to start editing them.
Choosing an instant project template will help you get the result quickly. Now you can trim your clips, adding transitions, effects, and more.
To add a title to the video, click the title button [T] and add text. In addition, you can add transitions between your clips by dragging the transition thumbnail to your timeline.
Once you have added your video, you can add filters, effects, and music. Just click the respective button and follow the instructions. Once everything is done, you can save it and share it on blogs or websites, email or social media channels, YouTube, and more.
Key Features:
- Drag and Drop: Drag and drop elements in your timelines, such as a text box, an effect, or a transition.
- Color Grading: Using color grading, you can enhance your video by boosting the colors and correcting their balance.
- Premium Effects: Use animated AR stickers, Face Effects, blend overlays, and more.
- Advanced Tools: Make your videos stand out with cinema-grade effects using masking, facial recognition technology, dynamic split screen templates, and more.
Pros:
- Online reviews hint at its fast rendering speed.
- Screen Recording is available.
- One-time fee structure.
Cons:
- There aren’t enough effects and transitions available.
Pricing:
It costs $99.99 / one-time payment.
9. Movavi Video Editor
If you’ve been in the industry for a considerable time, you must have heard of Movavi Video Editor.
It’s a powerful video editing software that allows you to edit videos, create slideshows and convert videos from one format to another. It is an award-winning video editor with readymade intros, keyframe animations, and many special effects.
Let’s see how to edit a 4K video in Movavi. As you see in the screenshot below, the user interface is spotless and straightforward. You just have to click on the “Add file” option to start importing your 4K video into the library and then add it to your timeline to begin editing it.
You’ll see icons for transitions, filters, and more on the left panel. From there, you can add different effects to your video. To cut your video into multiple parts, look above the timeline — you’ll see an icon for “Split Clip.” Select the clip and move the red marker to where you want to cut. Then click on the split icon.
You can also add titles to your video by clicking on the title tag in the left pan. Simply select the one that you want to use and drag it to the timeline. Now double-click on the title in the timeline and start editing the text.
After adding titles and special effects or transitions, save your file. Make sure you save in ultra-high definition.
Key Features:
- AI background removal: Change your video background without using a green screen – with the power of AI.
- AI noise removal: Its AI-based noise removal tool will help you remove car sounds, wind sounds, or other unwanted sounds.
- Special effects for Youtube: It offers five frames and an exclusive pack of effects for YouTube.
Pros:
- You can directly upload your finished video on TikTok.
- Clean user interface.
- Free version available.
- The video editing app has sound-accompanying transitions.
Cons:
- Slow rendering.
- It does not offer more advanced features for filmmakers.
Pricing:
It costs $74.95 for a one-time license.
10. DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve is an excellent video editing program – with a free version with many high-level features that you would expect from a much more expensive product. DaVinci Resolve also makes other products specifically for editors, including keyboards, color grading panels, and more.
In its latest release, they have included support for Blackmagic Cloud and Blackmagic Proxy Generator. You can host your media library on this cloud and share your work with other collaborators and editors.
To start editing in DaVinci Resolve, you must import your video by dragging and dropping your videos from the hard drive to the media pool on the top of the screen.
Many professional video and audio file formats are supported, including H.264, H.265, DNX, Blackmagic RAW, and more. You can mark the part of the clip that you want to use by specifying a start and endpoint for it.
Once you’re done adding clips to the timeline on the right side of the screen, you can edit them further using options from the editing overlay. This tool can replace, insert and overwrite clips in your movie project.
DaVinci Resolve has a library of 30 different transition effects, including wipes, dissolves, warps, flares, and more. All you have to do is select the effect you want and drag it into your timeline on top of a clip.
You can also add 2D and 3D titles to your project from the title library. Drag Fusion Titles from the library onto the timeline to add a title. You can then customize the text, font, color, etc.
You can do much more with videos, such as making animations, creating soundtracks, controlling the speed of your video, and adding picture-in-picture effects, dynamic zoom effects, and timeline curves.
Key Features:
- Multi-User Collaboration: It’s possible to work with editors, visual effects artists, colorists, and sound engineers who are also online at the same time.
- Fairlight: It features tools to produce audio. You can use up to 2K tracks at a time.
- Media and Delivery Page: It offers a fullscreen workspace to prepare clips, sync audio, and organize media files into bins.
- Resolve FX: You can add advanced effects such as blur, noise, light effects, beauty enhancement, image restoration, and more.
- Color Collector: DaVinci’s 32-bit image processing enhances your photos, making them look their best.
Pros:
- It offers a free version with various editing options.
- The paid version is also affordable, considering the features you get.
- Clean and easy-to-use UI.
Cons:
- Steep learning curve.
Pricing:
It costs $295 for features like stereoscopic tools, Resolve FX filters, more Fairlight FX audio plugins, and advanced HDR grading.
11. Wondershare Filmora
Wondershare Filmora is an easy and simple video editing software that frequently updates with new features and advancements.
Using the software is incredibly easy. You can create a new project for every video or start working on an existing project from the file menu.
Then you can import video, audio, or image by clicking on Import Media from the drop-down menu. You can either drag and drop your files in the library area, click on import media in the library, and select from the media browser.
Now add this video file from the library to your timeline to start editing.
This can be done in two ways: drag and drop it to the timeline or right-click on the clip and choose the action from the insert, add to a new track, overwrite and append options.
This UI is straightforward, you don’t have to go back and forth, and mostly all options are on a single page. You can start adding titles, effects, animations, etc., by dropping them in the timeline. Then, select the option from the top of the window.
That’s it. Your first video in Wondershare Filmora is ready to be saved and exported. Click on the Export link on the topmost menu, choose the location, enter the video name, choose format, and click the Export button.
Filmora has the edge over other video editors, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, in its price point. Its rendering speed and performance are comparable to those of Creative Cloud products, but it lacks more advanced features, such as motion tracking and speed remapping. If you don’t require those features at all, though, it’s a good choice.
Key Features:
- Split Screen: It offers a split-screen template where you can add multiple videos in one to make it more fun. It has more than 30 split-screen templates.
- Keyframing: Enlarge, narrow, or rotate your clips with its Keyframig feature and create many more visual animations.
- Motion tracking: It automatically tracks the object movement and lets you pin the graphic or other elements to move in the same motion.
- Screen Recorder: It allows you to record your screen with system and microphone audio.
- Video effects: It offers over 900 video effects, including titles, filters, transitions, motion, and more.
- Green Screen: You can change your video backgrounds or elements with the green screen.
Pros:
- Great selection of features
- Easy-to-use interface
- Fast rendering.
- A free version is available.
Cons:
- So many features might be overwhelming for new users.
- Users have reported that the software sometimes crashes.
Pricing:
It starts at $19.99 per month.
12. FlexClip
With FlexClip It’s very easily to create and edit videos for the brand, marketing, social media, family, and any other purpose.
You can make a Video in 3 Steps :
- Add videos or photos from computer or stock libraries,
- Add text, music, elements, and more to customize your video,
- Export your video, then share it via a link or post to social media platforms.
FlexClip is a simple yet powerful video maker and editor for everyone. It help users easily create compelling video content for personal or business purposes without any learning curve.
Key Features:
- AI auto subtitle generator, GIF maker, image background remover, screen recorder and video converter supported.
- Millions of Royalty-free Stock Media including photos, videos, and music.
- 4000+ exquisitely-designed templates in diverse categories.
- Cloud-stored function for trans-devices editing, anywhere and anytime.
- Storyboard and timeline mode for both beginners and professionals.
Pros:
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Great selection of features
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A free version is available.
Cons:
Pricing:
It starts with a free licence and go at $19.99 per month for the business licence.
Frequently Asked Questions about Video Editing Platforms
What is a video editing platform?
A video editing platform is a software platform that allows you to edit your videos, photos, and other media files.
How do I choose the right video editing platform?
The first thing you should do when choosing a video editing platform is to find out whether it supports the features you need for your project. Then check if it supports multiple file types and if it has tools for basic editing.
How much does a professional video editing platform cost?
You can find affordable professional-grade video editing software for less than $100 per year. The more advanced platforms with additional features cost more, but they also offer more capabilities than basic ones like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker that come free with your operating system.
How do I edit a video?
Editing a video can be done on any video editing platform. The process of editing varies from platform to platform, but the basic steps are the same:
- Import your media (photos and videos) into the program
- Arrange your media into a sequence for your video
- Add transitions between scenes or clips
- Add titles and other text elements to enhance visual storytelling
- Save the project file
What features do video editing platforms have?
Video editing platforms provide many features to help users create their own videos. Some of these features include:
- Video creation and editing tools
- Audio mixing capabilities
- The ability to add titles, images, and animations
Over to You!
The choice of a video editing platform can be one of the most important decisions you make when creating your video. First, you must choose a platform that will allow you to create high-quality videos suitable to your requirements. And if you’re looking for a basic and free video editor, there are options for that too.
If you’re a professional, use advanced video editing software tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate, and Apple Final Cut Pro. They will take time to get used to, and you’d have to shell out a considerable budget, but it will be well worth it.
If you’re an amateur or a beginner, I recommend using Movavi Video Editor Wondershare Filmora or Clipchamp. They are easy to use and the best bang for the buck.
And if your purpose is just to create personal videos for your family and acquaintances on social media, then you can use a free video editing software like Apple iMovie.
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The yearly increase in iOS device sales has set the bar high for the assured success of iOS. However, when it comes to testing these devices, purchasing devices with various HW specs and iOS devices isn’t viable for SMEs and startups. Additionally, there are better testing solutions than manual testing due to scalability and low-efficiency concerns.
Although iOS is still a more closed operating system than Android, you may use various free and open-source technologies to build effective automated tests. It makes iOS app testing activities simpler and more efficient for developers and testers using a cloud-based testing solution.
Designers have a wide range of lucrative career options.
This resource puts together some of the best small business ideas to help chart your career path.
It covers the market size, earning potential, estimated startup cost, the target audience, and the value they bring to the table. You’ll also learn how to launch the business, the required training and licenses, and a few companies already killing it in the space for your inspiration.
So, let’s begin.
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- Motion Design Courses
- Product Design Courses
- Graphic Design Courses
- User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design Courses
- Fashion Design Courses
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- Children’s Coloring Books
- Adult Coloring Books
- Teenagers
- Teach People to Create and Sell Coloring Books
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How to Choose the Best Business Ideas as a Designer
1. Online Course for Designers and Animators
The demand for digital designers will grow by 23% until 2031—faster than America’s 5% average occupation growth rate. And the market for online courses will grow at the same speed to reach $198 billion in sales by 2030.
Also, 87% of managers said hiring more UX designers is their organization’s top priority.
- Earning potential: $19,500 to $135,000 annually (or $69,900 average).
- Top marketplaces: Udemy, Udacity, Skillshare, LinkedIn Learning, Thinkific, Alison, AppSumo, CyberU, PluralSight, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $8,000 to $36,000.
Target Audience and Value
Create and sell online courses based on your transferable design skills. Let’s explore five options:
1. Motion Design Courses
Students pay about $85 to $600 for motion design courses.
And students can recuperate their investment quickly since motion designers earn between $58 to $300 per hour.
2. Product Design Courses
Jaguar C-X16 Design. Creative Commons.
Product design courses are between $85 to over $4,000.
Product designer roles pay about $115,000 annually. And finding employment is easy, as over 70% of hiring managers have increased their designer hires.
3. Graphic Design Courses
Art Director and Graphic Designer Peter Cocking, on utilizing white spaces. Creative Commons.
Top-earning graphics designers earn about $43 an hour or $90,000 a year. So, you can sell this online course for $85 to $15,000 per student.
4. User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design Courses
UI/UX online course creators usually take $85 to $2,500 per student. And students who become top earners take home up to $174,000 a year or $84 an hour.
5. Fashion Design Courses
Fashion designer courses cost $40 to $4,000.
However, top designers earn over $90,000 a year. So your students can get outsized value from their investment.
How to Launch
Launch your online design course in seven steps:
- Find a simple course idea
- Outline the course
- Create the first module
- Build your sales page and join marketplaces
- Create your thank you page
- Write your sales emails
- Launch your course
Most people get stuck in the ideas phase. Instead, find a simple course idea based on your skills and launch it.
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
Course marketplaces have unique education requirements. So check the publisher requirements of the platform you want to launch the course.
However, most marketplaces do not require special certifications to launch a design course.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Adobe After Effects: Complete Course from Novice to Expert by Louay Zambarakji.
Courses from Motion Design School.
2. Graphics Design Business Serving Brick-and-Mortar Outlets
Graphic design for brick-and-mortar outlets can be a quick way to start your small business for designers. These businesses use graphic design services to create marketing collateral, like flyers, presentations, and brochures, to send brand messages to their audience.
The increasing demand for designers drives consistent global graphic design market growth, currently valued at around $43.4 billion.
- Earning potential: $35,000 to $66,000 per year (or $47,921 average)
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com, SolidGigs, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $2,000 to $10,000.
Target Audience and Value
You can provide graphic design services to countless small businesses, and some of them include:
1. Ice cream shop
Image credit: Fiverr
You can create packaging designs and logos for those planning to own ice cream shops. The top Fiverr designers charge around $25 per project, while some value their services up to $260 per project.
2. Landscaping Business
Image credit: Fiverr
Most landscaping businesses need graphic designers to help with custom 3d Landscape concept design and illustrations for their client’s properties—some designers on Fiverr charge around $180 per project and up to $480 for premium service.
3. Catering Business
Image credit: Fiverr
Catering business logos on Fiverr costs $5 to $100 per project. However, some top designers charge up to $450 for premium services.
4. Food Truck Business
Image credit: Fiverr
Professional food truck and trailer wrap designers on Fiverr charge $25 to over $100 per project. You transform the designs into formats such as AI, JPG, and PDF to provide multiple use options for the business.
5. Pet Sitting
About 70% of U.S. households own a pet. That’s approximately 91 million households, nearly ten million more than the population of Germany, the EU’s largest population, making a pet business lucrative.
You can design logos and marketing materials for pet-sitting and dog-walking businesses. The standard rate on Fiverr is between $5 and $100.
How to Launch
Start your graphic design small business in six steps:
- Build your portfolio by offering free designs
- Name your graphic design business
- Build a basic website
- Create social media accounts
- Join top graphic design marketplaces
- Build your email lists and run ads
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
Starting this new business doesn’t need special certifications and licenses. However, pursuing certifications like Adobe Certified Associate and other courses on Udemy and Coursera can advance your credibility.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the small businesses making waves in this space are:
3. Graphics Design and Animation Coach
Graphic design and animation coaching is one of the best small business ideas to start as a designer. Consider this career path if you’re curious about designs and motion graphics and are passionate about teaching.
Employment for professionals in this field will grow by 5% from 2021 to 2031, as fast as the average for all occupations.
- Earning potential: $79,153 average compensation per year.
- Top marketplaces: Udemy, Coursera, Alison, Fiverr, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $0 to $15,000, depending on whether you run the coaching business from home or the office.
Target Audience and Value
Let’s explore some of the coaching services you can provide:
1. Personal Training and Coaching
Image credit: Iveta Karpathyova Studio
One-on-one graphics and animation coaching via Zoom is in high demand. You can sell your training and coaching service on your website or online marketplaces. Some personal trainers charge about $650 for a three-month-long session.
Most non-marketplace users often charge more. For instance, Iveta Karpathyova, a graphic design personal trainer, takes about $2,000 for eight hours of private one-on-one instruction.
2. Graphic and Animation Coaching for Design Teams
You can use RFPs to find companies who want to train their in-house design teams in 2D or 3D animations. Also, you can target companies that use graphics to boost user engagement, like UX professionals.
Austin Saylor is an example in this space. He earns up to $10,000 from his training program for graphic design teams.
3. Online Courses
Image credit: Udemy
You can create online courses and sell them on marketplaces like Udemy, Coursera, and Alison if you don’t have the resources for one-on-one coaching. For instance, some animation courses on Udemy cost between $20 to $139 for old students or between $14 and $24.99 for new users.
How to Launch
Start your graphic design and animation coaching small business idea in seven steps:
- Get professional training
- Develop your business plan
- Design your coaching courses and certificate of completion
- Set your coaching fees
- Set up your payment methods and plan your business finances
- Choose a coaching business name
- Create a logo and your brand identity
- Set up your coaching website and social media presence
- Design your marketing plan
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
Once you possess transferable design and animation skills, you don’t need special training, certification, or licenses to operate a graphic coaching business. However, getting certification training will advance your qualification and give you the confidence to train people.
Some options include:
- Parsons Motion Design and Animation Certificate
- Montgomery College Digital Animation Certificate
- The University of Tokyo Interactive Computer Graphics
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some businesses offering graphic design and animation coaching services are:
4. WordPress Themes and Website Templates
A WordPress theme and website template development business is one of the most lucrative small business ideas for designers.
The WordPress platform controls nearly 65% of the CMS market share and powers 43% of all websites. That’s a staggering 82 million, meaning there are about three times more WordPress websites than the number of web developers worldwide.
Shopify comes a distant second, powering only 3.5% of all websites. However, WordPress has over 11,000 themes. As a theme developer, you can tap into this lucrative market.
- Earning potential: $12 t0 $12,000 per theme or template
- Top marketplaces: Envato, Creative Market, and Codecanyon.
- Estimated start cost: Premium WordPress theme builders costs between $99 to $200
Target Audience and Value
Some of the most successful business ideas or markets to explore in this field are:
1. WordPress Themes Development
Image Credit: Themeforest
Bestselling themes on Themeforest cost $39 to $69, while the most expensive options go for $6,000 to $12,000. Also, Fiverr developers charge up to $1,000 for custom WordPress theme development.
2. Site Templates Development
Best-selling site templates on Themeforest cost between $12 to $49. The high-priced ones go from $200 to $1,000. The price range for popular themes on Creative Market is the same as on Themeforest. However, the most expensive options range from $520 to $5,000.
3. Landing Page Templates Development
Landing page creation is a lucrative business because of its high demand for lead generation. The best-selling landing page templates on Themeforest cost $12 to $39, while the expensive ones go for $59 to $118, making them affordable.
How to Launch
Launch this new business idea with these simple steps:
- Pick a niche
- Develop your business plan
- Set your pricing
- Plan your business finances to understand the overhead costs involved
- Design your themes and site templates on your computer
- Develop the theme with premium theme builders like TemplateToaster or outsource to freelance theme developers.
- Create a free version of the theme
- Test your theme or site templates
- Join a marketplace and sell your theme
- Promote your business with paid ads
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need special training, certification, or licenses to build a successful career as a theme developer. In addition, some theme builders don’t require coding knowledge.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some theme developers on Fiverr and Themeforest are:
5. Email and Newsletter Templates Creator
Email template development is another good business idea to explore.
There are over four billion daily email users, sending and receiving more than 306 billion emails daily, making it an effective channel to reach and engage customers. Also, data shows that 37% of brands are increasing their email budget.
As an email and newsletter templates creator, you can design beautiful templates for small and medium-sized businesses that can’t afford an in-house design team, digital marketing services, and marketplaces.
- Earning potential: $10 to $150 per project
- Top marketplaces: Themeforest, Fiverr, Creative Market, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $0 to $200
Target Audience and Value
You can offer your service on several marketplaces and your website. However, these options provide the most straightforward way to make it big in this field.
1. Themeforest Email Templates
Themeforest’s top-rated email templates cost about $8 to $116. Most of these templates have between 100 and 1,500 sales, indicating high demand for Themeforest email templates. The most expensive option currently costs $117 for the regular license and has sold over 100 copies.
2. Fiverr Email Templates
Demand for Fiverr email template creators is also pretty high. The best-selling professionals take between $10 to $25 per project. However, hand-coded responsive HTML options go as high as $80.
3. Creative Market Email Templates
Creative Market has over 1,500 email templates. The popular designs go for $10 to $39, while the most expensive templates cost between $50 and $150. Most designs are for MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, and Constant Contact platforms.
How to Launch
Launch your email and newsletter design business in these few steps:
- Pick a niche and develop your business plan
- Set your pricing
- Design your email and newsletter templates
- Test on different devices such as desktop computers, mobile, and iPad
- Join marketplaces and sell your templates
- Create a logo and business website
- Join popular social media and build your online presence
- Market your business
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need special training or licenses to create email and newsletter templates. Instead, strong customer relationships and positive reviews are what you need to thrive in this field.
Example of Businesses in this Space
You can build a profitable business in this field. Let’s see a few of the successful ones for your inspiration.
6. Fonts
Typography is one of the financially rewarding home business ideas for designers.
Custom fonts allow businesses to create unique brand identities to stand out from the crowd. As a result, this space holds limitless opportunities for typographers.
For instance, IBM paid over $1 million annually to use Monotype’s warhorse font Helvetica before developing its IBM Plex typeface.
Other companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and SAP also invested in custom fonts and typefaces to reinforce brand messages and save on licensing fees. So you might want to explore this small business idea. You can also structure it as a consulting business.
- Earning potential: $30 to $300,000 for bespoke font
- Top marketplaces: Envato, Creative market, Fiverr, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200
Target Audience and Value
The best target audience for this small business idea is brands that want to create a unique identity to differentiate from the competition. Some of the places to sell your service are:
1. Envato
Envato has an extensive library of over 30,000 stunning fonts and types.
Many small business owners and online businesses use the marketplace to find unique fonts. Envato users with an active subscription can download the fonts for any project and marketing campaign.
The individual plan costs $16.5 monthly, while the team plan is available at $10.75 per member. The enterprise plan requires a custom quote.
2. Fiverr
Fiverr is a great place to start a typography business as a beginner. Small business owners and online businesses use it to hire affordable typographers. The platform currently hosts over 2,000 custom font services.
Typographers on the platform charge between $10 to $30 for custom fonts. The top earners take home over $60 for premium services.
3. Corporate Clients
Experienced typographers can explore this option.
Creating bespoke typefaces for corporate clients may cost up to $300,000. First, however, you’ll need to demonstrate your value by building a strong portfolio and understanding how to craft a pitch, an offer, and a closing.
How to Launch
Typographers are in high demand. Start your typography business in five types:
- Design your fonts
- Build your website and plan your marketing
- Join marketplaces and sell your fonts
- Build your prospects list
- Send custom font design proposals to prospects
- Market your business with paid ads and on social media
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
Typography is one of the most lucrative home business ideas for designers today. You can start this small business without special certifications and licenses.
However, taking typography courses on Udemy and other learning platforms can help you master your art and design better fonts.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the businesses in this field are:
7. Graphics Templates and Marketing Collateral
Marketing collateral is media and graphics materials organizations use to support their sales efforts and advance their brand messages.
It includes anything from brochures, business cards, and posters. These materials give prospects the information they need to make informed purchasing decisions.
Creating them as graphic templates lets people customize and use them as they wish, enabling a much larger potential audience size. For example, as a marketing collateral designer, you could also run a consulting business as part of your larger offering.
- Earning potential: $10 to $1,300 per project.
- Top marketplaces: Envato, Creative Market, Fiverr, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200 to get a good computer.
Target Audience and Value
The target audiences for this small business idea are social media managers, cleaning services, brick-and-mortar stores, and dog-walking businesses.
Also, targeting profitable niches like small business owners, personal training businesses, and property managers can lower your customer acquisition and overhead costs.
Let’s examine some graphic templates and marketing collateral you can design for clients.
1. Brochures
Image credit: Envato Elements
Brochures are some of the most widely used marketing collateral.
Creating them as customizable graphic templates and selling them on marketplaces like Envato and Creative Market allows you to attract many users.
You can also offer custom brochure design services on Fiverr. Designers on the platform take between $10 t0 $150 per project.
2. Business cards
Image credit: Envato Elements
Custom business card designers on Fiverr charge between $10 to $640 per project. Some premium services go for as high as $1,300. You can also sell on Envato to earn money from users’ subscription fees.
3. Flyers
Image credit: Fiverr
Flyers are another in-demand marketing collateral. Nearly 50% of surveyed companies said that door drop campaigns are essential to their marketing strategy.
Offering custom flyer design services to these businesses can help you make it big as a designer. Pro-verified designers on Fiverr make between $100 to $495 per project.
Their premium packages cost as much as $1,295.
How to Launch
Launch this small business idea with these six steps:
- Get a nice laptop and internet connection
- Create an actionable business plan
- Define your target market and ideal customers
- Build your portfolios
- Join marketplace
- Create a sales page to attract non-marketplace users
- Join social media platforms
- Promote your business through paid and organic marketing channels
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You need special training or a license to start this business at home. However, an impressive portfolio will help you land high-paying clients more quickly.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the businesses in this field are:
8. Presentation Template Designer
Creating an entire presentation deck from scratch can be challenging for non-designers.
As a result, 79% of presenters use pre-built templates to find inspiration, streamline their workflow and create stunning presentations in a few minutes. So this is an excellent business idea for designers.
You can explore opportunities in this field to shore up your income and build a flourishing career.
- Earning potential: $90 to $6,000
- Top marketplaces: Envato, Creative Market, Fiverr, etc.
- Estimated start cost: You can start the business with just a computer. It costs between $200 to $1,200 to get a good one.
Target Audience and Value
Businesses in high demand for presentations, like landscaping businesses, property managers, startups, and consultancy businesses, are your targets. Also, executives and busy business people need you too.
Others include personal trainers, social media managers, and cleaning businesses.
Let’s explore some templates you can start with and what each brings to the table.
1. Marketing
Image credit: Envato Elements
Marketing presentation templates do the heavy lifting for salespersons, enabling them to create their presentations and slides quickly. Your presentation design agency can charge between $90 to $6,000 per ten slides.
However, selling on marketplaces enables you to access a ready market with minimal marketing efforts.
2. Pitches
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A beautifully designed pitch deck helps startup entrepreneurs to make a lasting impression on potential investors. So they often prefer to use templates to create theirs or outsource the project to professionals like you.
You can join marketplaces to reach potential clients more quickly, and there is a lot of money to make from those platforms. For example, pro-verified sellers on Fiverr earn between $100 and $1,500, while premium packages can go for as much as $3,000.
3. Key Notes
Professional keynote presentations from pro-verified designers on Fiverr are between $360 and $650 for the basic package. Non-pro-verified professionals on the platform price their service between $10 to $200.
Presentation design services hourly rate on Upwork ranges from $20 to $95. Some charge as high as $130 per hour.
How to Launch
A presentation template design business is a great business idea to pursue as a designer. You can launch yours with these six steps:
- Buy a good computer with enough graphics card
- Create a business plan
- Define your market and ideal prospects
- Build your portfolios
- Create your website and join marketplaces
- Plan your marketing strategies
- Launch your templates
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need any special training, certifications, or licenses for this small business idea. However, an impressive portfolio and many positive customer reviews will do.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Let’s examine some professionals in this space.
9. Custom T-Shirts and Screen Prints
The high demand for customized wear makes custom T-shirt design a thriving enterprise. Future Market Insights estimated that the market size of global custom T-shirt printing would exceed $3.5 billion in 2022.
Furthermore, they believe it will grow by 9.7% CAGR over the next ten years to reach over $9 billion.
- Earning potential: $5 to $1,200 per project and up to $1 million a year.
- Top marketplaces: Teespring, Zazzle, CafePress, Redbubble, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: You can start a custom T-shirt design business with $0 from home if you already own a computer and internet connection.
Target Audience and Value
Build your business for these audiences:
1. Custom T-Shirt Design Marketplaces
Image credit: Teespring
Joining and selling your designs on custom t-shirt marketplaces like Teespring (now, Spring), CafePress and Zazzle is your best bet to hit the ground running immediately. T-shirt designs on Teespring can cost as much as $49.99.
2. Fiverr
Pro-verified custom t-shirt designers on Fiverr take home between $125 and $450 per design. Premium packages can go for as high as $1,200—other gigs in the category cost between $5 and $30.
3. eCommerce Store
An eCommerce store for your custom designs lets you control your marketing and the ideal audience you want as customers.
You can also connect the online store to print-on-demand platforms like Printful to run a full-fledged online t-shirt business. There is no limit to how much you can make from this business. Some sellers earn up to $10,000 monthly.
How to Launch
Follow these six steps to launch this business idea:
- Find a t-shirt niche
- Create your t-shirt design
- Join marketplaces to sell your designs
- Create an eCommerce to promote your business
- Connect your store to print-on-demand software to drop-ship your custom-printed wear
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need any special training to thrive in this space. Getting many positive customer reviews and referrals can help advance your business.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Many designers are in this space, offering custom T-shirt design services to individuals, groups, and local businesses. Some of our top picks for your inspiration are:
10. Comics
Comics are graphic novels. It’s popular among kids and teens. Fortunate Business Insights estimated that the comics market size will reach $12.81 billion in 2028, up from $9.21 billion in 2021. It grew by a staggering 12% in 2020.
Analysts believe it’ll grow at a CAGR of 4.8% from 2021 to 2028.
- Earning potential: $63,167 per year for comic artists and about $210 per project for comic artists and color stylists.
- Top marketplaces: ComicConnect, Subzero Comics, and LiveAbout
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200 to get a good computer
Target Audience and Value
Comics are lucrative when you build the business around these audiences:
1. Comic Artist
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You can try your hands here if you can create attractive graphics and illustrations for comic books. Professionals in this field typically earn over $63,000 a year. But they vary from city to city. For instance, San Francisco, California comic artists take home over $95,000.
2. Comic Book Letterer
Advanced skills in color flattering can also help you get something tangible out of this space. Some professionals in this field earn between $5 to $25 on Fiverr. The verified professionals take between $100 to $210 per project.
3. Color Flatter
Color-flattering services on Fiverr are in high demand. Most color stylists on the marketplace charge between $5 and $40. As a verified professional, you may earn up to $100.
How to Launch
Comics are another successful business idea you can consider as a designer. It’s not expensive to launch, and you can run it 100% from home.
Start your own business in these few simple steps.
- Pick a niche and define your market
- Develop your business and marketing plan
- Set your price
- Join marketplaces to sell your service
- Create a website to target off-marketplace audiences
- Promote your business
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need special certification or licenses as a comic artist. However, professional courses on Udemy and other learning platforms can advance your skills.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some professionals in this field are:
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11. Sewing Patterns and Fashion Designs
The U.S. 2022 fashion design market size stands at $2.9 billion. Data shows that the market size declined by 1% between 2017 and 2022. However, analysts believe the value will grow at 0.9% in 2022.
- Earning potential: Earn up to $130,000 annually.
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, DressX, Replicant, Dribble, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200 to get a good computer
Target Audience and Value
Set your sights on these markets to make it big in this field.
1. Fashion Designers
Creating and selling your designs to top-rated designers is one of your best bets to earn big from this small business idea. Most bespoke wears cost several thousand dollars, and many designers won’t mind paying hundreds and thousands of dollars for your designs.
2. Online Marketplaces
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Joining marketplaces will save you a lot of marketing costs, and there is also money to make from the platforms—top professional stylists on Fiverr earn $100 to $300. You can also sell your designs on Dribble.
3. NFT Fashion Marketplace
Image credit: Replicant
NFT digital fashion marketplaces like Replicant are reimagining fashion designing businesses, allowing anyone to try on a digital garment.
They are a new and growing trend. Jumping in right away lets you secure a space before it gets saturated. And the digital fashion business is financially rewarding.
For instance, the best-selling digital garments on Replicant cost around $35, while the most expensive digital fashion wearables sell for as high as $68.
How to Launch
You can launch this business idea in these steps:
- Pick a niche and define your fashion style
- Develop your business and marketing plan
- Create a physical version of your NFT
- Choose and blockchain for your NFT and set up your digital wallet
- Select an NFT marketplace
- Create a business website to promote your digital fashions
- Join social media to improve your online presence
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
The fashion design business doesn’t require any special training, certification, or licenses.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the businesses in this space are:
12. Wrap Designer
The wrap design business is one of the most profitable business ideas to start as a designer.
Several organizations and individuals wrap their vehicles for branding and aesthetic purposes.
In addition, a vehicle wrap is cheaper than a painting, driving its demand in the U.S. The global automotive car wrap film market was $4.9 billion in 2021.
Analysts estimated it will grow at a CAGR of 22.2% from 2022 to 2030.
- Earning potential: $21 per hour
- Top marketplaces: Wrap Stock, Fiverr, Design Hill, Upwork, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200
Target Audience and Value
Wrap design small businesses can target:
1. Auto Shops
Many auto repair shops in the U.S. offer car wrap services. You can create and sell your designs to them. They charge clients between $2,500 and $5,000 to wrap their vehicles, so it’s fair to expect some money from them for your design.
2. Car Owners
Top-rated custom wrap designers on Upwork charge between $30 and $50 hourly rates. Several have earned $10,000 to $60,000 creating and selling bespoke wrap designs on the platform.
3. Marketplaces
Image credit: Wrap Stock
You can upload and sell your designs on marketplaces like Wrap Stock.
Here, you don’t have to worry about marketing or running ads. Instead, the platform handles every aspect of the process, enabling you to focus on creating stunning designs.
How to Launch
Launch this wrap design small business idea in these steps:
- Pick a niche
- Develop your business plan and sales processes
- Create your designs
- Turn your designs into templates downloadable in different formats
- Join marketplaces to sell your design templates
- Create a website to promote your business
- Offer custom design services
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This small business idea doesn’t require special training, licenses, or certification. However, building your portfolio and generating positive reviews can advance your credibility.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the professionals in this space are:
13. Videographer and Video Editor
About 87% of businesses use video as a marketing tool.
YouTube, the world’s largest online video-sharing platform, has over 122 million daily users. They watch over one billion hours of content each day. Every minute, creators upload more than 500 hours of videos. These make video editing a lucrative business.
- Earning potential: $49,496 average base salary per year
- Top marketplaces: Upwork, Fiverr, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $250 to $1,020 for professional video editing software yearly subscription
Target Audience and Value
Let’s explore some ways you can earn money with your skills:
1. Marketplace
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Most video editors sell their services on Fiverr, Upwork, and other talent marketplaces. They charge between $10 to $40 per gig on Fiverr and an hourly rate of $10 to $25 on Upwork. You can join both marketplaces to maximize your options and reach a wider audience.
2. Portfolio Website
Create a portfolio website to target non-marketplace audiences and sell your service. It lets you take charge of your marketing, build your customer list and manage your customer relationships 100%. The median hourly rate of video editors is $20.
How to Launch
Videography and video editing are profitable business ideas. Launch yours in these simple steps:
- Pick a niche and your target audience
- Write a business and marketing plan
- Buy video editing software
- Join marketplaces
- Create a website to promote your business
- Run ads and market your service
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This small business idea doesn’t require special training and licenses, especially if you want to run it from home. However, getting professional video editing training and certification can help you become a better video editor.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some businesses in this field are:
14. Online Freelance Designer
The freelance industry currently contributes about $1.4 trillion to the U.S. economy. With over 58 million people offering freelancing services in the country, analysts believe it will grow to become the U.S. majority workforce.
A career path as an online freelance designer lets you have a slice of the pie.
- Earning potential: $25 to $150 per hour
- Top marketplaces: Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200
Target Audience and Value
An online freelance design offers limitless opportunities to designers. The small business idea will stay true to its potential when you build it around these target markets:
1. Marketplaces
Joining a marketplace gives you instant access to ready-to-buy customers—beginners in this space charge between $10 and $80 on Fiverr. Pro-verified experts earn up to $800. Upwork graphic designers take $14 to $95 per hour.
2. Freelance Website
A website lets you create a unique brand identity for your graphic design business.
It also allows you to approach your prospects directly, control your pricing and scale your business over time. The $20 to $150 average industry hourly rate is encouraging, and you can charge more as your business advances.
How to Launch
Action the steps below to launch this small business idea.
- Pick a niche and define your ideal clients
- Create a marketing and business plan
- Build your portfolio
- Set your price
- Join marketplaces
- Create a small business website
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
A freelance graphic designer doesn’t need any special license or training. However, acquiring advanced design and marketing skills improve their odds of having a successful career.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the top professionals in this field are:
15. NFT Artist
NFT lets owners prove authorship and authenticity, future-proofing digital assets. It’s one of the latest in-thing today and a trend that is not dying off soon.
The value of the global non-fungible token market was $4.6 billion in 2021. Analysts estimated that the market size will grow at a staggering CAGR of 23.9% between 2022 and 2028 to reach nearly $20 billion at the end of the forecasted period.
- Earning potential: $96,643 average annual salary (the top 10% earn about $360,000 yearly)
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, OpenSea, SuperRare
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200 for a computer with a sound graphics card
Target Audience and Value
Let’s examine some target audiences for your NFT art business.
1. NFT Creators
Create unique NFT art collections and sell them to NFT creators with the metadata. You can sell the service on Fiverr and Upwork. NFT artists on Fiverr charge between $40 and $150 for basic packages, while those on Upwork collect up to $5,000.
2. NFT Marketplaces
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You can mint your art on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, SuperRare, and others if you’re uncomfortable selling them to third-party NFT creators. The opportunities in this space are limitless. For example, some NFTs on OpenSea sell for as high as 19 ETH floor price.
How to Launch
Launch this NFT art small business idea in these few simple steps:
- Define why you’re going into the business
- Pick a niche
- Join marketplaces to sell your art
- Set up an Ethereum wallet If you wish to mint your arts
- Find a minting platform that meets your needs
- Mint and sell your NFT arts
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need any special training or license. However, you can take online NFT minting courses on Udemy, Coursera, and other learning platforms to master the art.
Also, the business doesn’t have special license requirements.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the professionals in this field are:
16. Event Designers
Event designers work with planners to help them put details into their decorations. However, unlike planners focusing on event logistics and ensuring everything is on schedule and running smoothly, event designers transform the space and bring clients’ visions to life.
- Earning potential: $43,977 median annual salary (the top 25% earns up to $50,000 annually0
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $300 to $3,000 to start the business from home. It’ll require a laptop, project management platforms (for example, ClickUp), and virtual event design software (3D Event Designer).
Target Audience and Value
Segment your audience, targeting these markets:
1. Corporate Organizations
Most organizations and companies hold at least one corporate event, such as annual general meetings, award ceremonies, and product launches. You can work with them to plan out the design and decoration. Payment is usually per project, and it’s encouraging.
2. Event planners
Image credit: Harpers Bazaar
Partnering with event planners is your odds-on-favorite to ensure a steady supply of gigs. So, you don’t need a big marketing budget. Most event planners are already entrenched in the system and can quickly put something on your plate.
3. Catering Services
Catering services are another solid option to explore. Most caterers want to know how to set up their buffet and other items to ensure a seamless workflow. You can create multiple floor layouts of the event space to show them ways to arrange their stuff.
How to Launch
Launch a successful event design small business idea in these six steps:
- Define your target audience
- Buy project management and virtual event design software
- Create virtual event designs to show off your skills
- Join marketplaces
- Build your websites and create social media accounts
- Collaborate with event planners
- Market your business to build your clientele
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This small business idea doesn’t require any special training, certification, or license.
However, professional certification and training in project management can make you a better event designer. Also, you’ll need a strong customer relationship, positive reviews, and a referral network to thrive in this space.
You might not need special licenses to run the business from home.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the businesses in this field are:
17. Extended Reality Designer
Extended Reality (XR) is the catch-all term for all immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR).
Mordor Intelligence predicts the XR market valued at $26.05 billion in 2020, will grow at a staggering CAGR of 62.7% between 2021 and 2026 to reach $463.7 billion. A career as an XR designer can bring a lot to the table.
- Earning potential: $106,097 average salary per year.
- Top marketplaces: Unity Asset Store, Unreal Engine, Oculus Rift Store.
- Estimated start cost: $62 to $23,200.
Target Audience and Value
Who is your target audience in this space? First, let’s examine the top two and what you can gain from them.
1. XR Developers
Image credit: The Academy of International Extended Reality
You can have a lucrative career as an XR designer, working with extended reality developers to create cutting-edge XR applications for forward-thinking businesses.
While designers focus on figuring out the “whys” and ‘what’s” of the projects, developers’ interests rely on transforming them into a reality.
Typical XR designers earn around $106,000 annually. The more experienced hands go home with over $215,000 each year. So you’re getting in early on an industry poised for rapid growth.
2. Marketplace
Selling your XR assets on specialized marketplaces like Unity Asset Store, Unreal Engine, and Oculus Rift store lets you access a ready market, minimizing the efforts you need to put in to build your clientele.
You can also list on Upwork to diversify your income. For example, XR designers on the marketplace earn $20 to $85 per hour. Some designers have earned over $500,000 selling their skills on the platform.
How to Launch
These steps can help you launch this XR design small business idea:
- Pick a niche
- Write a business plan detailing the market opportunities you wish to exploit
- Register your business if you’re renting an office space
- Acquire XR hardware and software
- Create your marketing plan and launch your website
- Join marketplaces to sell your service
- Hire and train your staff, including a social media manager and digital marketing professional
- Collaborate with XR developers
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This Extended Reality design small business idea doesn’t require any special licenses.
However, you’ll need specialized training and certifications to advance your credibility and credentials. Some of the top-rated in the industry are
- Unity Certified User Program
- Professional Certificate in AR/VR and 3D Graphics
- Professional Certificate In Unreal Engine Foundations
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the professionals in this space are:
18. Photographer and Photo Editor
The photography business is competitive, and you can build a sustainable career, even while working from home, with the right skills.
The future outlook for the industry looks promising.
Analysts expect the global market size to reach $44.07 billion in 2025 from $32.92 billion in 2020, meaning, in three years, the global photography business value will be more than half the Serbian GDP, a country of over seven million people.
- Earning potential: $29,230 to $109,760 per year (the average base annual salary is $60,298)
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, Pixabay, Shutterstock, Getty Image, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $10,000 to $15,000.
Target Audience and Value
You can work with these people as a photographer and photo editor:
1. Event Planners
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Event planners can guarantee you steady gigs. Working with them means you don’t have to worry about prospecting, writing proposals, and closing clients.
Some professional photographers charge between $75 and $300 per image, while experienced ones may earn up to $1,000.
2. Marketplace
Marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork are other excellent options for beginners. For example, photo editors on Upwork take home about $20 to $100 per hour; some have earned over $250,000 since joining the platform.
3. Commercial Photography
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Commercial photography is one of the most lucrative options in this field. The professionals here earn between $800 to $5,000 per day. The licensing fees often start from $250 and may get as high as $10,000.
4. Stock Photography
You can start a stock photography website or join already established stock photo websites like Shutterstock to sell your photos. Monthly subscriptions on Shutterstock cost between $49 to $479. The platform has paid over $1 billion to contributors in the last 15 years.
How to Launch
Launch your photography and photo editing business in these steps:
- Find your niche and target market
- Pick a nice location if you wish to run a brick-and-mortar business
- Register your business to legalize it
- Open a business bank account and set up accounting for the business
- Check with local authorities for the necessary permit
- Get photo editing business insurance
- Purchase photography equipment, gear, and photo editing software
- Create a unique brand identity for the business
- Develop your business website and add your business to social media
- Build your portfolio
- Join marketplaces
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This business model doesn’t require special training, licenses, or certifications.
However, investing in professional courses can help you become better at what you do. Online courses are a great place to start. For example, you can check Udemy and Coursera for top-rated photography courses.
When creating a website for your business, consider taking marketing and customer relationship courses to improve your client acquisition skills.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the businesses for your inspiration are:
19. Sell Coloring Books
A coloring book is one containing line art for coloring with the crayon. It’s a healthy way to relieve stress, calm the brain and help the body relax.
The adult coloring books market peaked between 2014 and 2017. It sold over 12 million books in 2015, up from one million copies the previous year.
Although on a decline today, exploring options in this field can be lucrative.
- Earning potential: $10,000 to $40,000 monthly
- Top marketplaces: Amazon, Lulu, Etsy, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200 for a good computer
Target Audience and Value
Create and sell coloring books online. You can begin with some of these marketplaces:
1. Children’s Coloring Books
Children’s coloring books are popular on Amazon. A quick search shows over 80,000 results—the top-rated books on the marketplace cost between $5.99 and $12.
2. Adult Coloring Books
Lulu is an online self-publishing book company. Creating and selling coloring books on the platform lets you reach over one million monthly visitors. They also handle inventory and fulfillment. A paperback coloring book on Lulu sells for up to $16.
3. Teenagers
Teenagers use coloring books, and you can target teen themes that attract that audience. These books typically cost $8 to $38. You can even publish digital versions of these coloring books.
4. Teach People to Create and Sell Coloring Books
If you’ve found success creating and selling coloring books, you can teach others how to do it. Typically, these courses cost $14 and $50 and can attract over 5,000 students.
How to Launch
Follow these steps to start selling coloring books:
- Pick a niche
- Write and design your book
- Decide on whether to self-publish or use publishing companies
- Format and edit your book
- Design the cover art or outsource to freelancers
- Sort the copyright and ISBN
- Set the pricing
- Upload and sell your book
- Promote your coloring books on social media
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
Selling coloring books doesn’t require any special training or certification. You don’t also need special licenses to run this business.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the professionals in this field are:
20. Products and eCommerce Packaging Designer
Product packaging designers develop eye-catching labels and product packages that meet safety and packaging regulations. In addition, they often work closely with the marketing team to create designs that reinforce the brand’s messaging.
Analysts expect the market size of packaging design services to reach nearly $32 billion in 2030, up from $21.9 billion.
- Earning potential: $37,000 to $80,000 annual base salary (the average salary for packaging designers in the U.S. is $51,000 yearly)
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, 99Designs, and self-hosted options.
- Estimated start cost: $62 to $23,259.
Target Audience and Value
Getting gigs is the most challenging aspect of this business. Some sources you might want to explore are:
1. Brick-and-Mortar Retail outlets
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Approach and pitch your packaging designs to nearby brick-and-mortar stores. Also, run paid adverts to reach more businesses and direct them to your website to schedule a discovery call—a typical packing designer charges between $80 to $100 per hour.
2. eCommerce Stores
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Many eCommerce stores fulfill their orders. Work with them to design custom packaging to ship their orders. You can reach them online via paid and organic promotions.
The $80 to $100 hourly rate is the competitive fee for designers in this niche.
3. Marketplaces
Product packaging designers on Upwork take between $20 to $100 per hour. Also, pro-verified designers on Fiverr earn $500 to $1,000 per project. So, there is so much money to make from this channel.
How to Launch
Start your product packaging design business in these simple steps:
- Study the different product packaging needs to understand your audience’s needs.
- Select a niche for your business.
- Build your portfolio.
- Set your price.
- Determine your positioning for differentiation.
- Establish your brand identity.
- Join marketplaces.
- Create a website and join social media platform.
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This business idea doesn’t require any special certification and training to start. However, obtaining packing training, licenses, and certificates can set you apart from competitors.
So consider these options:
- Certified Packaging Professional (CPP)
- Certificate of Packaging Science (CPS)
- Certificate of Mastery in Packaging Management (CMPM)
Also, check with local authorities for necessary licenses.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some businesses and professionals in this space are:
21. Publish Books and eBooks
Publishing books and eBooks is an excellent way to monetize your design skills.
A career as an author is financially rewarding, and the future also looks promising. A report by Technavio shows that the electronic books market will grow by $6.93 billion between 2020 and 2030.
Also, published books don’t have recurrent expenditures. So you have nothing to lose exploring your options in this field as a designer.
- Earning potential: 70% on every book sold on Amazon Kindle
- Top marketplaces: Amazon, Lulu, Apple Books, Kobo, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $0 to $4,000.
Target Audience and Value
You can write books based on your transferable skills, case studies, or the latest trends. Some of the platforms to self-publish your work are:
1. Amazon
Amazon receives over two billion monthly visits, making it the biggest platform to self-publish books and eBooks. Most books on the marketplace are available at $2 to $30. So, some authors earn between $5,000 and $8,000 each month.
2. Apple Books
Self-publishing on Apple Books lets you target a wide range of Apple device users, including CarPlay and Apple Watch. Apple has sold over two billion iOS devices, and over 100 million people use Macs worldwide. So the Apple Book brings so much to the table.
3. Online bookstore
You can sell through your website if you drive enough traffic to the online store and fulfill your orders. Your online store allows you to set your price, control your messaging, target your ideal audience and manage your customer list.
How to Launch
Follow these steps to turn this small business idea into a reality:
- Pick a niche
- Choose a topic and write your book or eBook
- Edit your book or hire a professional editor
- Design your book cover or outsource
- Format the book or hire a freelancer
- Choose a self-publishing platform and upload your book
- Create an online community for your books business
- Hire a social media manager and digital marketing services to promote your books
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need special training or certifications to start a book or eBook publishing business. However, getting and flaunting them can boost your credibility and show off your expertise. Also, advanced book publishing and formatting courses can help you create better-looking and attractive books.
You can find and take these courses on Udemy, Coursera, and Alison.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some designers in this space are:
22. Printing Press
The printing business is financially rewarding. About 25,000 U.S. companies are into commercial printing. They generate nearly $900 billion in revenue annually, more than the Saudi Arabian GDP and almost half that of Italy—the EU’s third-largest economy.
- Earning potential: $65,000 for operators to $100,000 a year.
- Top marketplaces: Yelp, Craigslist, Nextdoor, and Yellow Pages.
- Estimated start cost: Industry leaders reported spending $146,000 to $400,000.
Target Audience and Value
Set up your printing press to target these audiences:
1. Businesses
The global commercial printing market is lucrative and has impressive long-term growth potential. You can have a slice of the pie by providing printing services to businesses like marketing collateral, catalogs, magazines, product labels, and packaging.
The U.S. has over 10 million companies, so you always have options.
2. Political and Social Campaigns
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Thousands of political and social campaigns happen in the U.S. yearly, making campaign posters and signage printing a thriving business.
The 2022 market size for printed signage alone is $33.9 billion, and analysts expect the number to grow at a CAGR of 2.8% to reach $40.08 billion in 2028.
3. Authors
The number of books published yearly in the U.S ranges from 500,000 to one million, excluding self-published authors. In 2021, the country sold over 826 million physical books, that’s nearly three books per citizen on average. So you can earn big printing books.
How to Launch
Launch your printing shop in ten steps:
- Define your target market and develop your business model
- Rent office space in a nice location
- Register your business to make a legal entity
- Open a business bank account and set up accounting for the business
- Check with local authorities for the necessary permits and licenses
- Secure a business insurance
- Purchase and set up the equipment you need for the print shop
- Create a logo for a unique brand identity
- Develop your business website and join social media platforms
- Develop your marketing plan and run promotions
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
A printing press doesn’t require any special training and certification to start.
However, you should comply with OSHA requirements and regulations. Also, check with the local authorities to learn other necessary environmental, health, and safety requirements.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the businesses in this space are:
23. Website Design Services
The 2022 total number of web developer and digital interface designer jobs in the U.S. is around 200,000.
However, Statista believes the number will reach 229,000 in 2032, while the total number of web developers and designers will grow to 205,000, so there’ll be enough jobs to go around.
- Earning potential: $3,000 to over $75,000 per project.
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $62 to $36,061.
Target Audience and Value
Model your small business web development idea around these markets to have a home run.
1. Local Businesses
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Small businesses and eCommerce stores drive the growing demand for business websites. A web development agency’s custom services cost between $15,000 and $30,000. But more complex site design projects can go as high as $75,000.
2. Charities
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Charities are another excellent option for web designers. Most of them need simple websites. So you’ll be looking at making $2,000 to $5,000 per project as a freelancer. And you can command up to $30,000 if you’re an agency.
3. Marketplaces
Verified professional web designers on Fiverr walk away with $100 to $5,000 after each project. They priced some of their premium packages up to $12,000.
Web designers on Upwork charge between $25 and $150 per hour for their services.
How to Launch
Follow these steps to start a web design agency:
- Define your target market
- Rent an office space if you wish to run an out-home agency
- Register your business to make it a legal entity
- Secure a business insurance
- Choose a business name and create a unique logo
- Develop your business website and set up social media accounts
- Build your portfolios
- Create a marketing plan and run promotions
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
Once you have the requisite skills, you don’t need special training or certification to launch a web design service. However, enrolling in project management certification courses can help you seamlessly manage your workflow and customer expectations.
Other necessary certifications are:
- User experience and usability courses to build sites with frictionless navigation
- Search Engine Optimization certifications for search-friendly designs
- Conversion rate optimization courses to create high-converting websites
- Graphic and 3D animations to create stunning graphics
Example of Businesses in this Space
Check out these businesses to see what other people are doing in this space:
24. Graphic Design Academy
A graphic design academy might cost you an arm and a leg, but it’s lucrative, as most soft skill training centers.
Data shows that the global soft skill training market reached over $24 billion in 2020, and market analysts believe the number will grow by a CAGR of 12.3% between 2022 and 2027 to reach $47.2 billion in 2027.
Besides the financial rewards, a career as an instructor can be fulfilling. You should consider this career path if you have a passion for teaching or other transferable skills to share with others.
- Earning potential: $39,000 to $93,000 yearly total pay (average salary is $56,438 per year)
- Top marketplaces: Yelp
- Estimated start cost: $14,491 average startup cost for skills training center
Target Audience and Value
Some of the target audiences for this business idea are:
1. Design Teams
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Approach nearby businesses and show them how your training program can help advance the skills of their design team and save the company money. Then, negotiate your pay based on the value you are bringing to the table and what you think the business can afford.
2. College Students
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College students are excellent targets for graphic design training skills. Reach those that are interested in acquiring graphic design skills with paid ads.
You can run foundational, undergraduate, and postgraduate programs to cater to all categories of students. For example, some training schools charge up to $40,000 for postgraduate graphic design degree programs.
3. Graphic Designers
Professional graphic designers are always looking for ways to advance their design skills. You can target this segment with professional certification programs or bootcamps. You might also partner with reputable certifying bodies like Adobe to offer their certification programs.
How to Launch
Follow these steps to launch your academy:
- Develop your training programs and modules
- Set your training fees and payment plans
- Rent a training center in a good location
- Register your academy
- Secure the appropriate licenses and insurance policy
- Design your training center to set the right ambiance
- Create a logo for the business
- Design a website with online learning features to cater to out-of-location students
- Set up your social media presence
- Develop your marketing plan
- Hire and train your staff
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You’ll need a license to run a degree-awarding training center.
Also, it would help if you had more than transferable graphic design skills as an instructor. Your students expect you to have professional certifications and specialized training from recognized bodies.
Some top options are:
- Adobe Certified Associate
- Graphic and Digital Design Certificate (Parsons School of Design)
- Udemy or Coursera professional graphic design and animation courses
- Master’s degree in graphic design
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some graphic design training centers are:
25. YouTuber
YouTube is not just a video-sharing platform. It’s also the second-largest search engine after Google. Over 2.6 billion people use the platform once a month. They spend about one billion hours daily watching five billion videos.
A career as a YouTuber is financially rewarding but never a walk in the park.
Identifying your target audience and creating content that addresses their pain point is the most straightforward to succeed in this space.
- Earning potential: $80 to over $55,000 monthly.
- Top marketplaces: YouTube.
- Estimated start cost: $150 to $1,100.
Target Audience and Value
You can target prospective graphic designers or designers with your video. Some ways you can monetize your YouTube content are:
1. YouTube Ads
Joining the YouTube partner program is the most popular option for monetizing YouTube videos through YouTube ads.
However, to qualify, you’ll need to rake in at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 video watch hours in the past year. Then, you can earn between $2 to $12 per 1,000 views.
2. Sell Merchandise or Courses
Another way to monetize YouTube videos is by selling merchandise. If you don’t have any physical product, you can promote your design courses before or after your YouTube videos and drop the purchase link in the video description.
3. Sponsored Videos
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Influencer marketing is reimagining how brands connect with their customers. YouTube is the second most popular platform for influencer marketing. Join the train if you have a large and engaged following.
Several brands can pay you $500 to $10,000 to recommend their products. Some may even pay up to six figures for a YouTube campaign if they are sure of the results.
How to Launch
Follow these steps to launch a career as a YouTuber:
- Understand your audience and find your niche
- Create a YouTube channel and brand yourself
- Decide on the monetization strategy
- Invest in good camera and gear
- Acquire video editing skills and video editing software if you don’t want to outsource
- Develop your content calendar
- Create your first video and upload
- Optimize your video for search engines
- Run YouTube to promote your videos
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need special training, certification, or licenses to become a YouTuber.
However, taking video editing courses can save you a lot of money. Also, if your business model centers on teaching your audience design skills, you should acquire professional certifications in the field to advance your credibility.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the designs YouTubers making a wave in the industry are:
26. Newspaper, Magazine, and Catalog Design Agency
The global digital newspaper and magazine market, valued at $34.2 billion in 2021, will grow at a CAGR of 4.2% between 2022 and 2028 to reach $45.6 billion. The industry looks promising. You can register your agency and run it from the comfort of your home.
- Earning potential: $35,000 to $67,000 base salary per year (the average is 48,289 yearly)
- Top marketplaces: Fiverr, Upwork, Legit, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $2,300 to $5,200
Target Audience and Value
Some of the target audiences for this business are:
1. Newspaper and Magazine Companies
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Partner with newspaper and magazine companies. Offer to handle their designs to save them the cost of maintaining a full-time in-house team. Working with them can guarantee you a steady supply of jobs. Negotiate your pay per page or project.
Some magazine designers charge $50 to $90 per page.
2. Marketplaces
Join marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork to build your client base and portfolio incrementally. You can earn between $10 to $55 by selling your service on Fiverr. Some designers on Upwork charge about $30 and up to $750 per project.
Catalog designers on the platform earn between $20 and $100 per hour.
3. eCommerce and Retail Businesses
eCommerce brands and retail businesses are your largest audience. Most of them use product catalogs and magazines to spread their marketing messages.
You can approach them for custom designs or target them with customizable templates on your websites or third-party template marketplaces like Envato or Creative Market.
How to Launch
Follow these steps to launch this business at home:
- Identify your target market
- Choose a name and register the business
- Get business insurance
- Buy design software
- Create a website and set up social media accounts
- Hire and build your remote team
- Design newspaper, catalog, and magazine templates to build your portfolio
- Join marketplaces
- Promote your business
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
You don’t need special training, certification, or licenses to run this business model. However, you can find relevant professional courses to advance your skills.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the professionals in this field are:
27. Online Drawings and Handcrafts Sales
You can build a sustainable career selling custom drawings and handcrafts art collectors. Statista projected that the global arts and crafts market will grow from $35 billion in 2017 to $50.9 billion in 2024.
Besides the tempting financial rewards, the business lets you express yourself and bring your imagination to life.
- Earning potential: $12.5 to $49.84 per hour (the average hourly rate is $20.97)
- Top marketplaces: Etsy, Shopify, Fiverr, and self-hosted options
- Estimated start cost: $200 to $1,200 for a personal computer and software.
Target Audience and Value
Build your business around art lovers. It helps you lower acquisition costs and maintains a high conversion rate. Some small business ideas in this field are:
1. Offer Custom Art
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You can make a lot of money creating custom art for clients. Since they’re tailor-made and provide personal significance and uniqueness, most collectors will be okay with paying more to have them on their walls.
Commissioned paintings from experienced artists cost $100 to $10,000.
2. Start Online Craft Store
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An online store for your craft business lets you transform your passion and creativity into a business. Moreover, it’s lucrative so that you can earn a good living.
Candle making, jewelry, and headbands are some craft business ideas for your inspiration. Others include embroidery, home decor, sculpture, and decorative pillows.
Also, sell your crafts on Amazon, Etsy, and other marketplaces to reach more people.
3. Sell Your Drawing Online
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Create stunning hand-drawn images and sell them on art marketplaces like Shutterstock and iStock. Also, sell on your website to cater to non-marketplace users.
Additionally, license your art to businesses for commercial use. It’s where the money is. You can make between $100 and $10,000 from licensing fees.
How to Launch
Follow these simple steps to launch your online drawing and handcrafting small business ideas:
- Identify the gap in the market—decide what you’re going to sell
- Define your target audience and pick a niche
- Name and register your business
- Create a logo and brand your business
- Design your website and set up your social media
- Create sales pages and join marketplaces
- Plan your supply chain and order fulfillment
- Make your crafts or sample drawings
- Promote your business
Required Training, Certifications, or Licenses?
This business model doesn’t require special training, certification, or licenses. However, check with local authorities to learn what applies in your area.
Example of Businesses in this Space
Some of the design businesses making it big in this space are:
How to Choose the Best Business Ideas as a Designer
We have explored some of the best small business ideas for designers. When you start your journey, choose options that match your passion and career objectives.
And remember to use this resource to start on the right footing.
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Podcasts are on the rise. In 2020 consumption of podcasts reached 332.2 million internet users, and this number grew to 383.7 in 2021. And it is increasing steadily – with the number of listeners slated to reach about 509.4 in 2024.
Podcasts have moved from a niche market of discussants in their parent’s basements to being spread across the globe into everyone’s earsets.
However, it’s more complex than just creating a decent show and uploading it. First, your website needs to be able to handle the traffic, lest you want your listeners attempting to sign up for your newsletter on a frisbee. But where does one start?
And that’s where podcast hosting sites come into the picture!
You need a podcast hosting service to publish your podcast episodes online and make them available to your audience. Podcasts are called interactive audio content for a reason. Your podcast listeners can get in touch with you through the comments section, emailing you their feedback, sharing your episodes on social media, and more.
It doesn’t matter if you’re looking to become a mega-star or want to solidify your brand; knowing which podcast hosting platform to use is essential to the podcasting process.
In today’s article, we have covered the 15 best podcasting sites. So whether you are looking for free or paid podcast hosting sites, we have covered everything in detail.
1. Podbean
Podbean is a podcast hosting and monetizing platform that lets you publish your podcasts in minutes. Just set up some basic information about your podcast – and you are set to publish your first episode on Podbean. With Podbean’s intuitive user interface, getting started with the service is as easy as pie!
In the above image, you can see how Podbean will ask you to set up your podcast. Podbean makes it easy to create a professional-looking site from title and description to category and podcast logo. Once you upload your episode, you can also pick a theme for your site.
As you see in the below image, you can customize its fonts and colors and test the audio and appearance before it launches.
Podcasts can also be listened to on Apple, Google, Shopify, and other podcast apps. If you want to embed your podcast on your website or blogs, Podbeans Embeddable Players will make that easy for you. The Embeddable player is also customizable and lets you add branded elements, making the design professional.
You can even connect your social media handle with your Podbean account to directly share podcasts on your social pages.
It doesn’t skimp on statistics, either. Podbean statistics will give you all the insights you need to know about your podcast’s audience, including the top 10 episodes, how many downloads there are at a particular time, where your customers come from, and user retention data.
All in all, it’s a great option to get started with your podcasting journey. However, one downside is that the podcast website isn’t as polished as some podcasters might prefer.
Other key features include
- You can host audio and video files without limits on storage and bandwidth.
- You can personalize your podcast with your own domain.
- You can also schedule your podcast episode in advance.
- Once you publish your podcast, users can access it on Alexa devices.
- Its Mailchimp integration will help you collect emails for future distribution.
- You can monetize your podcast using ads.
- Live stream your podcast with a remote co-host or guest.
Pros
- They offer a free plan, which provides iPhone and Android app players with 100GB of monthly bandwidth and their own podcast site.
- Even though the interface is very intuitive, the resources in their knowledge base will be helpful to beginners.
Cons
- You can’t host video podcasts unless you are on their Plus & Business plans.
- The podcasting website should be more professional.
Pricing
It starts at $9/month for unlimited storage space, unmetered bandwidth, distribution on significant podcast apps, customizable themes, and more.
2. Buzzsprout
Buzzsprout is a podcasting platform that provides hosting, promotion, and analytics solutions. You can directly distribute your podcast on Google, Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Alexa, Overcast, and more through Buzzsprout.
You can start with easy and free learning material provided by Buzzsprout, including podcasting guides, courses, video tutorials, industry podcasts, and community.
It’s also worth noting that Professional-sounding podcasts don’t come easy. That’s why Buzzsprout’s MagicMastering tool is available for you to use. It’s an audio filter that sweetens your podcast and optimizes it for the best industry standards.
That said, the Magic Mastering feature is only available with the pricier plans, so you’ll have to shell out more money for it.
You don’t have to worry about optimizing your episodes yourself either because Buzzsprout optimizes all episodes in terms of file type, bitrates, ID3 tags, etc.
The best part is that it has dynamic content flexibility, letting you decide whether audio should go at the beginning or end of an episode. It does everything to make your podcast search engine friendly, including transcribing each episode for people with hearing disabilities.
Buzzsprout’s users also usually have good things to say about the platform.
For example, Neil Thacker, founder of Casual Car Guide, who uses Buzzsprout himself, is a big fan of the platform.
Thacker says,
“I have been lucky enough to host a few different podcasts in various industries. Every time, my hosting platform of choice is Buzzsprout. They just get it. Buzzsprout makes it super easy to publish and syndicate your podcast episodes across various mainstream streaming platforms and directories.
If you need a website for your podcast, Buzzsprout gives you the tools to create one. Simply pick a domain and host your podcast there for the world to see. It’s quick and easy to set up and won’t cost you the earth. Go, Buzzsprout!”
Other key features include
- It offers a customizable podcast player that lets you skip to the next track or move backward. You can also share your episode on social media and make the player match your website’s branding.
- One account can hold multiple podcasts and team members.
- You can find all the necessary help through its YouTube channel and Facebook community.
- It integrates with tools such as Chartable, Podtrac, Hindenburg, and more.
- It also offers Visual Soundbites to match your brand colors.
Pros
- It offers competitive pricing and features.
- Clean & easy-to-use UI.
- Plenty of learning resources.
- Free version for 90 days.
Cons
- Limited upload time, even with paid plans.
- Your episodes will be hosted only for 90 days with the basic plan.
- The basic plan does not include Magic Mastering.
Pricing
Starts at $12/month for 3 hours of upload, advanced statistics, unlimited storage, and more.
3. Simplecast
Simplecast is the all-in-one solution for your podcasting needs – including podcast publishing, distribution, analytics, and sharing. Whether you’re a large or small business, it also has similar tool access for all sizes of companies.
Your podcast can be set up anywhere, including Shopify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and other podcast directories. Simplecast gets your podcast on these directories and apps as soon as you publish any episode and then automatically sends it to your listeners.
Then it will provide you with advanced analytics to show how many listeners you have, how many downloads you get, your listeners’ locations, and more. See below for a visual representation of how this works:
It also has a website. That’s right; you’ll get your own website.
This website automatically updates as you publish new episodes and is customizable, mobile-friendly, search engine optimized, and Google Podcast optimized. You can even use your own domain names.
In addition, it allows the user to manage multiple shows in a single account. The image below will show you what the Podcast Dashboard looks like. It displays the number of episodes for each show and other information, such as role and owner.
Other key features include
- Its audio analytics come in easy-to-understand visuals and show you different trends – for example, which device listeners use to listen to your podcasts.
- Simplecast’s framework is a rock-solid, no-nonsense platform that keeps your stream playing 24/7.
- You can import your existing podcast from any platform with just a few clicks.
- You can use its players to embed your podcasts on your web.
Pros
- All of its plans offer unlimited uploads and storage.
Cons
- It does not offer a free version.
- I see users getting frustrated with the limited customization options for website themes.
Pricing
It starts at $15/month for two seats, unlimited storage and uploads, basic analytics, a custom domain, a customizable website, and more.
4. Anchor.fm
Anchor is one of the – if not the best free podcast hosting services by Spotify that takes care of creation, distribution, monetization, analytics, and more.
Creating Music+talk episodes on Anchor is as easy as pie. Choose any song from Spotify’s library, place it in your episode builder, add an audio file that you wish to go with the music file, and then submit your episode for review.
Some of the best ways to make money from your podcast are by building an audience and monetizing that audience. And with Anchor, you can monetize in various ways, including by adding paid advertisements to your podcast or asking for donations from listeners.
In addition, the IAB 2.0-certified metrics from Spotify let you measure your podcast’s performance in detail. For example, you can see where listeners are abandoning you on the track and adjust accordingly by adding content that really matters to them. You can also see what type of listeners interact with your podcasts – how old they are, what gender they identify with, and more.
Luciano Colos, founder and CEO of PitchGrade, who uses Anchor for his own podcast, talks about his experience with the platform.
He believes that the end-to-end control of the whole process is what makes Anchor.fm unique.
Colos further shares,
“Even if you’re not a technical person, the interface is so simple that you’ll be able to learn it in minutes. I’ve been using it since the day I started my podcast, and I’m so glad I found it. It’s also worth mentioning that the support on the platform is great. If you ever have a question, you can contact the staff on their Discord channel and will get an answer within minutes.”
Other key features include
- All the content rights are yours.
- You can distribute your podcast to Google, Apple, Pocket Casts, Spotify, and more.
- You can directly record from your phone, tablet, or computer and sync them to all devices.
- You can create both audio and video podcasts.
- The episode builder has easy-to-visualize building blocks.
Pros
- Anchor offers free and unlimited hosting in all plans.
- Easy monetization options, that too with ads in your own voice.
- You can distribute your podcast to all major podcasting platforms.
Cons
- You can host only one podcast per account.
- Interview features on phone hosting are limited.
- Customer support is limited to online resources.
Pricing
It’s a free platform.
5. SoundCloud
SoundCloud is a platform for both streaming audio and hosting podcasts. Majorly, it’s a popular music-sharing platform, but it also offers a robust podcast-hosting platform used by over 75 million people worldwide.
Creating a SoundCloud profile is also as simple as pie. You can personalize your profile with your own username, profile URL, custom profile image, and header.
SoundCloud is also one of the few podcast-hosting platforms that allow you to create a community around your podcasts. This is handy if you want to grow awareness about your podcast among other users.
Users can comment on specific moments of the track, and other users can see those comments when they reach that moment on the track.
The podcast hosting platform is available for Android and iOS, and you can sign up for free. Of course, there’s an affordable fee for upgrading your account to a creator account.
In addition, SoundCloud lets you distribute your tracks on various channels, including Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and more.
Then you have the SoundCloud Analytics dashboard that gives you a quick overview of the number of streams, revenue, and top tracks — but it’s not as detailed as you can get with other podcasting sites. After all, it’s a music streaming platform primarily rather than one specifically for podcasts.
There is little to no knowledge on their website for beginners, which is another disadvantage. That said, it’s pretty easy to use, so anyone without experience in podcasting can easily use the platform.
Other key features include
- SoundCloud allows you to share your music on Apple Music, TikTok, Spotify, and more.
- Except for the free version, SoundCloud offers unlimited upload time.
- If you have collaborators in your profile, you can split the payments with them.
- You can also schedule your podcast releases in advance.
Pros
- It offers a free plan with 3 hours of upload time.
- The hosting fee is affordable.
- Listeners can comment on specific moments from your track.
Cons
- Many users report that it takes a long time to load the track.
Pricing
It starts at $2.50/month for monetization, distribution, promotion, and split payment features.
6. Transistor.fm
Transistor’s like other podcasting platforms – you can create a podcast from scratch or import it from another platform. Just follow the instructions, and you’re good to go.
Once your podcast is recorded and ready to go, you can invite multiple members to contribute. Its analytics software provides clean visuals and robust insights into listener trends.
For instance, the below image is an overview of the podcast performance:
Now observe that the amount of data and clear visuals make this less overwhelming. As you can see, it gives you insights into average downloads per episode for the specific period, estimated subscribers, and total downloads (month-wise visual presentation).
In addition to providing one-click submissions to significant podcast platforms such as Spotify, Google, Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, and more, Transistor also offers one-click submissions to search engines like Listen Notes and The Podcast Index. Transistor is one of the few podcasting hosting platforms to provide a service like this.
Corey Haines, Founder of SwipeWell, shares his experience with the platform,
“I’ve been super happy with Transistor.fm for hosting all my podcasts. Instead of paying for each one individually, Transistor allows me to host all the podcasts I want for a single price. This made me feel free to experiment and start as many podcasts as I wanted. They also have great integrations, analytics, and sharing capabilities to embed on a website or newsletter.”
Other key features include
- You can create, import, and host multiple podcasts in a single Transistor account.
- You get a unique RSS feed, advanced analytics, a basic webpage, and collaborator invites for each podcast you create.
- The analytics tool gives you insights like the number of plays, total plays per episode, average download, devices, and more.
- It offers a podcast player that you can embed on your website, landing page, or tweet.
Pros
- Multiple podcast hosting options allow you to test different podcast formats for varied groups of listeners.
- You can host unlimited podcasts in one account.
- It offers a free trial.
Cons
- The starter plan, which is a paid one, does not include dynamic ads. It also does not allow you to automate YouTube posting.
- There are plenty of resources in their knowledge base, but finding what you’re looking for is confusing.
- Only the Business plan allows you to remove Transistor branding from the player.
Pricing
It starts at $19/month for unlimited podcasts, private podcasts, live customer support, a built-in podcast website, and more.
7. Libsyn
Libsyn has the tools to help you get started regardless of your level of podcasting expertise. It assists you in recording, publishing, distributing, and monetizing your podcasts.
The best part? You can host both audio and video podcasts on Libsyn.
To get started with Libsyn, you’ll have to provide a few details, including podcast title, subtitle, description, category, owner’s name & email, author, website URL, and more.
The below image shows what the Libsyn podcast settings look like:
You can also add your own artwork to your podcast. Click “Add artwork” or drag and drop the images in the upload area. Suppose you don’t have your artwork ready. In that case, you can design one on Canva – Libsyn’s integration with Canva makes creating a professional-looking podcast cover simple without any graphic design experience.
Once you are ready with everything, publish your podcast and distribute it to the platforms where your listeners could be, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Play Music.
Libsyn gives you more ways to make money with your podcast, including advertising and subscriptions. For example, you can pitch to the big advertisers on Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Marketplace or build a community of members who get exclusive access to your content.
Antreas Koutis, Administrative Manager at Financer, shares his experience with Libsyn,
“When I started podcasting on the side, I wasn’t sure which hosting platform to use. There are a lot of options out there, and it can be overwhelming to try to figure out which one is the best. After trying out a few different platforms, I found that I liked Libsyn the best.
It was easy to use and had all the features that I was looking for. I also liked the fact that they offered unlimited storage and bandwidth, which was important to me since I wanted to be able to grow my podcast without having to worry about running out of space. The only downside is that it can be a bit expensive, but overall I thought it was the best option for me.”
Other key features include
- Its podcast players allow you to drag and drop your uploads, and you can create an episode from any page.
- You can also publish your episodes in batches or pre-schedule them.
- With Snippets, you can create a description for your podcasts just once and reuse it with every post.
- It provides IAB Tech Lab Verified Stats, which means you can trust the accuracy of the data.
- Get access to advanced analytics, including an interactive worldwide map, listener app analytics, demographics, and more.
Pros
- Podcasting can be a cinch for anyone who starts with Libsyn’s in-depth, step-by-step guides and other valuable resources.
- Its integration with Canva helps you design your artwork with ease.
Cons
- The basic plan does not offer unlimited storage or uploading hours.
- For advanced features, the price is quite high.
Pricing
Starts at $5/month for 3 hours of uploading, 162MB storage, stats snapshot, basic social promotion, unlimited bandwidth, ad-free website, and more.
8. Podcastics
Podcastics is a complete suite of tools for hosting, sharing, and monetizing your podcasts. The prime reason to give Podcastics a try is its 1-month free trial – no credit card required! And you don’t even need the training to use this platform. But if you need assistance, there’s plenty of help in the help section.
It takes just a few clicks to get Podcastincs up and running. The editor is clean and self-explanatory, as shown in the image below. Just follow the steps, and your podcast will be ready in minutes.
Moreover, if you already have your podcasts on the Apple Podcasts platform, you can easily import all of them into your Podcastics account in just two clicks. Simply type your podcast name in the search box and select yours from the list that appears. This will collect and save all your data, such as titles, descriptions, episodes, etc.
Podcastics is also one of the few podcast hosting platforms that allow you to host multiple podcasts with unlimited episodes under one roof.
Once your podcast is up and ready to be distributed, you can share it with the world on major listening platforms such as Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and more. Podcastics makes distribution so much easier by automatically creating an RSS feed for you.
Its magic link never misses redirecting your listeners to the correct platform. You can also add QR codes to your magazines or print flyers to get user subscriptions.
Other key features include
- You can host multiple podcasts in one account.
- It also records heat maps for you with the most and least active time during the week.
- The text editor lets you insert links and lists and style your fonts in episode descriptions.
- If you are using a free version, you can use your own server to upload your podcasts. Paid plans offer to host by Amazon Servers.
- You can also monetize your episodes using Patreon and affiliate programs.
- You can segment your podcasts into sessions and assign episode numbers.
- You can schedule your podcasts for specific dates & times.
Pros
- It saves your time with the duplicate episodes feature; then, you can edit a few details and post another episode in minutes.
- Its description snippets eliminate the redundant task of adding a few same elements for each episode.
Cons
- Although it contains so many advanced features, newbies can quickly become confused by the program for the same reason.
- For the free plan, you have to use your own server.
Pricing
Starts at $8/month for worldwide distribution, easy import, unlimited episodes, private/unlisted episodes, and more.
9. Spreaker
Spreaker comes with a bundle of tools for you to create, distribute, monetize, grow an audience, and track the progress of your podcasts. You can host and monetize your podcasts with programmatic ads from big brands, such as Green Chef, Lego, Swag.com, CareerBuilder, and more.
Spreaker’s how-to guide for podcasting will get you started in no time. Once you have your podcast’s name, length, and format ready, Spreaker Studio will help you record it, add sound effects, and crop or trim your audio. Finally, add the cover art, and you are ready to publish your first podcast on Spreaker.
Martyna Inkielman, Community Manager at PhotoAiD, shares her experience with Spreaker,
“I find Spreaker the best and most reliable platform. My favorite thing about it is that it provides most of the essential features in one place – pretty much everything related to your podcast can be done on Spreaker. It’s also very intuitive, so it’s effortless to use, even for beginner podcasters.”
Martyna mostly has good things to say about Spreaker, but one thing that bothers her – it doesn’t support video podcasting, so she can’t post on YouTube with it.
Other key features include
- With Spreaker, you can share your podcasts on Google Podcasts, Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.
- For monetizing, Spreaker inserts relevant ads in your podcasts no matter how new your episode is.
- For analytics, you can choose the plan for the level of detail you need about your podcast interactions. From downloads to listeners’ geolocation, Spreaker shows you every statistic vital to you.
- Spreaker Enterprise offers full-stack audio publishing, single-click distribution to various podcast channels, ad campaign manager, and more.
Pros
- You can monetize your podcasts regardless of the size of your audience, the number of downloads, or your account age.
- You can see real-time analytics of your podcasts because of their IAB Tech Lab certification.
Cons
- Users have reported limited options for customer service.
Pricing
It starts at $8/month for 6-months statistics, 100-hours storage, auto-upload to Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, and more.
10. Podomatic
Podomatic allows you to build your podcasting career in four easy steps: create a free account, record and publish, submit your podcast to big podcast platforms such as Spotify, and keep repeating.
To upload media, you must first add it to Podomatic’s library of supported file formats. It supports file formats including m4a, mp3, mp4, BMP, jpg, png, mp4, m4v, and more.
Podomatic will store your audio and video files in an unpublishable section if they are larger than 350MB, lack an extension, or has an unsupported extension.
To upload a podcast, you only need to determine the title, tagline, cover art, description, category, tags, and language. Then, once published, you can start monetizing it using Patreon, Popcorn, and What For Apparel ads.
You can also get stats on your podcast, including total plays, mobile plays, embeds, downloads, visits, and more. The service goes further into analytics to show your performance over a selected period of time, the performance of individual episodes, and listeners’ graphs.
Other key features include
- You can store up to 6 hours of recording (free) or 500MB of files.
- It gives you 15GB of bandwidth for a month.
- It also offers free tracking of your podcasts daily.
Pros
- You don’t pay for your first 20 episodes.
- Its premium plans are affordable.
- Premium plans offer unlimited bandwidth and storage.
- Be it a computer or mobile – you can record and publish high-quality episodes.
Cons
- It doesn’t allow the scheduling of episodes.
Pricing
Starts at $2.49/month for 100GB bandwidth, 2GB storage, and more.
11. Blubrry
Blubrry is a podcast hosting platform where you find easy podcast migration from other platforms, live customer support, and in-depth statistics. Blurry is also ready to host your single podcast or a whole slew of them.
With Blubrry, you can get more than just a podcast hosting service. You can grow your audience and connect with listeners by using Podcast Audience Surveys. These surveys give you valuable information about your audience, allowing you to develop a more robust publishing strategy.
For instance, you can see who completed your surveys and see their entire profile with information like identification, age, employment, education, demographics, audience’s listening habits, feedback, and more.
Once you’ve got all these metrics in place, you can then use them to compare and contrast with one another to come up with a more robust publishing strategy. This is something that no other podcast hosting platform does.
Blubrry also offers a free and optional managed WordPress website – designed with all the necessary modules a podcast website needs. In addition, this site automates podcast publishing on your website by using PowerPress Plugin.
And if you’re not looking to host an entire website, Blubrry offers a podcast landing page with a quick display of the show and listen and subscription module.
Want to further know where your listeners are coming from and which device they’re using? Blubrry Stats can help you analyze all of that!
However, it’s worth noting that Blubrry’s Standard plan is so basic that you can’t even use your own domain with it. It doesn’t come with advanced statistics or additional themes and plugins either – so be prepared to buy a pricier plan if you want all of those features.
Other key features include
- It allows private podcasting for secured delivery of audio and video to any device.
- It comes with a podcast media kit – which gives you an overview of your podcast performance.
- It also lets you choose your own logo, branding, and theme.
- You can also use your own domain with its advanced plan.
Pros
- Additional storage is available for an extra charge.
- Listeners’ survey helps build a closer connection with the audience.
- Its visual reports are detailed and easy to understand.
Cons
- Both paid plans offer minimal storage. The maximum is as little as 400MB.
Pricing
It starts at $10/month for 125MB storage, standard statistics, monetization, email and phone support, unlimited downloads, a custom embedded player, and more.
12. Captivate.fm
Captivate takes pride in its simple, easy-to-use dashboard that covers all the necessary functions and metrics to create, distribute, monetize, and promote your podcast.
Although it does not come for free, the range of hosting features and storage and upload capacities makes the price worth it. Captivate is designed by podcasters for podcasters, so it knows about their needs.
Creating a podcast in Captivate is a 5-step process. First, you’ll need the podcast name, author name, podcast cover art, description, category, directory setting, and more. Once you have all the necessary details, you can start importing your podcast into the Captivate Dashboard.
Then copy your current RSS feed into the current feed URL box and choose the current host—and voila! You are ready to go.
As soon as you publish your first episode, your podcast can be listed on one of the directories that Captivate integrates with.
With Captivate Analytics, you can see total downloads, total listeners, unique listeners, website traffic, listener demographic, and more.
It also offers responsive podcast websites where you can select from 3 templates, add bios, sign-up forms, lead generation modules, and more.
Nina Paczka, Community Manager at Resume Now, shares her experience with Captivate.fm,
“What I like the most is their dashboard – minimalistic yet providing everything you need. If you’re experiencing some trouble, Captivate’s team is there to support you. Considering the above, there’s nothing to dislike there. The platform offers a seven-day free trial. All paid plans cover unlimited podcasts and team members, with access to analytics and marketing tools.”
Other key features include
- Each plan offers unlimited podcasts and unlimited storage.
- You can import, add, and edit podcast transcriptions within Captivate thanks to its support of podcasting 2.0.
- It offers an international support team of 11 that covers four time zones, which means no matter where you are, their customer support will always be available.
- It offers Advanced IAB Tech Lab-certified podcast analytics to all podcasters.
Pros
- Their blog section is the source for every little question you could have while you are using this platform.
- Analytics goes deeper with each metric giving you a complete picture of your podcast performance.
- It offers a 7-day trial with all the features.
Cons
- It does not offer a free version.
Pricing
Starts at $17/month for 12K downloads, unlimited podcasts, unlimited uploads & storage, podcasting 2.0 support, and more.
13. Sounder
Sounder is another podcast platform on this list that offers tools to monetize, analyze, and promote your podcast across global directories. It follows IAB & GARM industry standards to generate accurate episode ratings, transcripts, keywords, summaries, and more within seconds.
You can create your podcast on Sounder either from scratch or by importing it from an existing platform. Once you sign-up for a free account, you can start with the podcast by entering details such as title, description, category, and artwork.
You can tinker with many more details, including your podcast’s name and description, author name, language, timezone, and more. While setting up these details, you can enable monetization by simply clicking on the relevant option. And that’s it!
Now you can create an episode by uploading an audio file and adding its title and description. Here you can set episode numbers, types, and artwork. You can also pre-schedule them.
If you’ve enabled monetization, you can select whether pre or post-rolls ads should go to your show.
Once you publish your podcast, Sounder will help you distribute it to popular listening apps such as Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, and more.
With Sounder Analytics Dashboard, you can get insights into streams, listeners, revenue, listeners’ demographics, keywords, referrals, and more.
Other key features include
- You can have up to four collaborators on your podcast.
- You can publish your podcasts under custom domains.
- It comes with a podcast player with audio search functionality.
- You can host unlimited podcasts in one account.
- If you have 50K+ streams per month, you can get early access to host-read DAI opportunities.
Pros
- Unlimited podcasts.
- Offers a free version for limited features.
- UI is clean and intuitive.
Cons
- Only offers audio podcasting.
- You cannot create membership programs.
Pricing
Available on request.
14. Fusebox
If you’re looking for an affordable podcast hosting platform, then Fusebox is the tool for you! It’s also pretty easy to use and provides a step-by-step guide through the entire process.
To start a podcast using Fusebox, you need to choose whether you’re starting a new podcast or importing from an existing one. In the below image, you can see that the UI is straightforward and easy to follow, even for newbies to podcasting.
If you’re creating your podcast from scratch, you must be ready with the details, such as the podcast title, description, and cover artwork.
Here’s what the form will look like:
You can also import data from your existing podcast by simply entering your feed RSS URL. It will lead you to the subscription page, where you can select a free or pro plan.
If you’re a new user of Fusebox or creating a podcast for the first time, you should enable Easy Hosting from your dashboard. It comes in every paid subscription.
Here, Fusebox will find your podcast and import all the files and data into your Fusebox account – you can just sit back and relax.
Once you’ve set up podcast information, you can start customizing your podcast player. The Branding page lets you select the brand colors that match your podcast or website branding.
You can also add a call to action – a button that prompts listeners to buy your music or sign up for your mailing list.
You can further:
- Control the speed of the player
- Add a download button and subscribe button
- Include a custom URL that sends listeners directly to your online store when they click on the cover art in their iTunes library.
Other key features include
- Customizable podcast players will help you stay aligned with your branding.
- Fusebox focuses on the metrics that count, such as downloads, referral sources, and top-performing podcasts and episodes.
- The easy hosting feature comes with step-by-step instructions to create podcasts.
- The built-in mobile player allows you to target listeners on the go.
- The podcast player comes with a download, subscribe, and social sharing buttons.
- It offers three types of podcast players – including sticky player, full player, and single player.
Pros
- Its podcast players are customizable.
- Easy, self-guided UI.
Cons
- The free version forces you to use your own host and gives you a single-track player with limited customization features.
- The starter plan includes only single-track players. To offer the rest of the players to your listeners, you’ll have to upgrade to the Pro plan.
Pricing
Starts at $7.50/month for a single track player, essential analysis, easy hosting, and more.
15. RSS.com
Rss.com is a podcasting app for people on the go. It’s like a Swiss army knife for busy podcasters, with features such as cross-platform analytics, automatic podcast distribution, and unlimited audio storage.
You can start by creating your podcast from scratch or importing it from an existing podcast platform. Both are super easy. To create from scratch, you will need to enter its title, description, language, and more.
Check out the image below to see what you will need:
As you can see, the UI is clean, easy to use, and self-explanatory. Every field is explained as you fill it out, and tips appear onscreen if you need more information. Once you create your podcast, you’re ready to upload your first episode.
The good thing about episodes is that they can be assigned season numbers, episode numbers, and types – giving you the flexibility to publish your episodes in the form of different series or trailers.
If you want to monetize your podcast, you’re in luck – RSS has in-built tools for that. The activation process is also easy and just takes one click.
Rss.com offers you three ways to monetize your podcasts: donations, bitcoin payments, and sponsor ads.
You can also distribute your podcast to listening platforms such as Google, Amazon, Spotify, Samsung, Amazon Music, and more.
Other key features include
- Its all-in-one dashboard shows you a complete picture of your podcasts. You can see scheduled episodes and navigate to your podcasts, analytics, distribution, or settings. You can also create a new episode from the dashboard.
- Its cross-platform analytics enables you to compare the metrics from different sources. For example, you can determine which podcast channel gives you more listeners or downloads.
- It uses podcasting 2.0 – which means you can transcribe your audio and use them for SEO purposes.
- From analytics, you can determine the best time to publish your episode and schedule it for the right time.
- With its embedded episode player, you can easily embed your podcast to any third-party website.
- You can get more reach using social share buttons on your podcast players.
Pros
- You can add chapters and soundbites to your episodes.
- You can schedule episodes in advance.
- Your podcasts are automatically distributed to popular podcast platforms.
- It offers a free podcast website.
- Each plan includes a free trial with no credit card.
- Affordable plans.
Cons
- Does not support mobile apps.
- No forever-free plan.
- Does not support any WP plugin.
Pricing
It starts at $4.99/month for unlimited episodes & audio, cross-platform analysis, RSS feed, free website, custom embedded player, and more.
Frequently Asked Questions about Podcast Hosting Platforms
1. What is a podcast hosting platform?
Podcast hosting platforms are the middleman between you and your audience. They’re a necessary part of the podcast ecosystem — they provide the basic infrastructure that makes it possible for you to create and publish your show.
2. How do I choose a podcast hosting platform?
There are many factors to consider when choosing a podcast hosting platform, including:
- Cost – How much does it cost to use the platform? Paid services don’t always offer better features than free ones, but they may come with more support options or other perks.
- Features – What does the platform offer in terms of features? Does it have things like automated episode creation, automatic distribution, social media integration, and more?
- Support – How good is their support team? Can you reach them if you need help?
- Bandwidth – The amount of data that can be transferred from one location to another in a certain amount of time (usually measured in bits per second). The more bandwidth available on your account, the more listeners will be able to download your episodes without having their connection interrupted or experiencing any buffering issues.
- A built-in audio player – This allows listeners to listen to your episodes without having to download an external app or visit another website. You can even add social sharing buttons so people can easily share your episode on Facebook or Twitter.
3. Do I need to use a podcast hosting platform?
If you’re just starting out, then it might be easier for you to use a podcast hosting platform because there are so many options available. However, if you have some experience with WordPress, then you can host your own podcast to avoid paying monthly fees and have more control over your content and website design.
4. How does podcast hosting work?
Podcast hosting services provide a platform to upload your audio files as well as convert them into an MP3 format. After uploading your content, it will be available on their servers so that anyone can access them online.
Most of these services also offer some basic analytics and statistics that help you track how many people have listened to your podcast and where they live.
Some even offer more advanced analytics like ranking charts, number of downloads per episode, etc., which helps you understand what people like about your show and how they listen to it (e.g., through mobile devices).
5. What do you mean by “Hosting?”
Hosting refers to storing your files on the Internet. It’s like storing your files on an external hard drive, except that they’re stored online rather than on a physical device. When you upload an episode to a podcast hosting platform, it will be saved there so that listeners can access it easily.
6. How do I upload my podcast?
You need to sign up for an account with a podcast hosting platform (like Libsyn). Once you have your account set up, there is usually an upload tool that allows you to select the files from your computer and add them to your account.
7. What are the best podcast hosting platforms?
Libsyn, Buzzsprout, Blubrry, and PodBean are all popular options for podcasters. It really comes down to personal preference and what type of features you’re looking for. You can also check out our post on how to choose a podcast host if you need more information on making this decision.
8. Can I use iTunes or Stitcher?
No, those aren’t podcast hosting platforms — they’re directories that people use to find podcasts. You’ll need to host your own MP3 files off-site so that they can be accessed by these directories (and other apps/devices).
9. Do I need a website?
No! Your podcast will be hosted on a website provided by the platform you choose, so you don’t need your own domain name or web hosting account. You may want to create an email address for your show so listeners can contact you directly with questions or feedback, though.
10. What are the different types of podcast hosting?
There are two main types of podcast hosting: free and paid. Free hosts do not give you full control over your episodes, while paid hosts usually offer more features and flexibility.
Ready to start podcasting with a suitable podcast host?
Hopefully, we’ve answered a few of your questions and given you the information you need to help you pick the right podcast host for your needs. Whether you’re looking for the best professional podcast host, the cheapest option for monetizing your podcasts, or something in between, there are podcast hosting sites out there that will help you meet your specific requirements.
We think the best way to choose whichever podcast hosting service is right for you is to check out how they handle certain features and what level of support they offer.
Note that free podcast hosting services are a great way to get your podcast started. The free option is perfect for a hobbyist or someone who is interested in the process of making a podcast. From there, you can upgrade to paid accounts for a more dedicated podcast hosting service with some of these platforms or go with a self-hosted option.
Whichever you choose, make sure you read the fine print, so your podcast isn’t censored for inappropriate content or hurt yourself by not having the proper legal disclaimers in place.
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