PHASE 01[PRE-FLIGHT]
01
Strategy
A show with a reason to exist.
Deliverables (4)
- ▸Narrative spine + ICP map
- ▸Guest curation by buyer adjacency
- ▸Season arc + episode laddering
- ▸Messaging pillars + hook bank
Podcast marketing agency · By application · 5 founder shows per quarter
Podcast marketing servicesthat only charge for moments that actually compound.
FORKOFF runs outcome-priced podcast marketing services for tech, SaaS, deep tech and Web3/AI founders. Narrative spine, recording, edit, platform distribution, podcast promotion, and 8-12 cross-platform clips per episode in one motion. You show up and talk. We do everything else.
Pilot episode · 14 days · by applicationProduction + distribution + clipping in one motion
8-12clips per episode
60 minone long-form moment
99.71%qualified-view legitimacy
<14dpilot to publish
Founder podcasts that ran on the FORKOFF qualified-view ledger
IO.NETTaikoMovementSolanaBaseBerachainCertiKStory ProtocolWormholeSomniaOktoHashedIO.NETTaikoMovementSolanaBaseBerachainCertiKStory ProtocolWormholeSomniaOktoHashed
6 active founder podcastsAI · Web3 · DePIN · L2Audit-ledger billing · 99.71% legitimacy
DistributionDistribute
Distribute
everywhere.
One recorded conversation, eight to twelve clips. FORKOFF ships the long-form to Apple Podcasts + Spotify + YouTube and routes the cross-platform clips to X, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Every clip lands on the surface where it earns the qualified view.
ClipsX / Twitter
ClipsTikTok
ClipsInstagram Reels
Clips + Long-formYouTube
Long-formApple Podcasts
Long-formSpotify
6Platforms supported
8-12Clips per episode
AutoFormat adapt per platform
As Featured In
Full press shelf- DA 55 · 2026-08Keep a Customer Community Engaged Without Over-Promotion
- CFO DriveDA 35 · 2026-08How Finance Teams Align Pricing With Sales Without Eroding Margins
- DA 94 · 2026-07Clipping Agency FORKOFF Crosses 5 Billion View Milestone
- DA 74 · 2026-06Five Things SaaS Founders Get Wrong About Short-Form, and Why Their Best Moments Die in 48 Hours
- LinkedInDA 56 · 2026-06The 2026 DevOps Maturity Test: 11 Engineering Orgs Failed and the One Metric That Replaced the Checklist
- IHDA 75 · 2026-06Most indie products do not fail on the build. They fail on distribution.
- DA 56 · 2026-06The Schema-Match Audit That Lifted Our AI Overview Citation Share From Zero to 23 Percent in 90 Days
- DA 42 · 2026-0525 Country-Specific Considerations for International IP Protection for Your Startup
- DA 68 · 2025-11RedStone, FailSafe, Nibiru and ForkOff Announce The Capital Layer at Devconnect Buenos Aires 2025
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A podcast is narrative infrastructure, not content.
We produce and position branded podcasts as long-form distribution channels for founders, protocols and ecosystem narratives, not as a media property that exists for its own sake.
What are podcast marketing services
What are podcast marketing services, and what does a podcast marketing agency do?
Podcast marketing services are the paid lines of work that take a show from an idea to an audience: strategy and narrative spine, guest curation, recording and edit, distribution to Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, short-form clipping, paid promotion, and reporting. A podcast marketing agency runs those lines as one motion instead of leaving a founder to stitch a producer, an editor, a clipper, and a media buyer together. FORKOFF runs podcast marketing services for tech, SaaS, deep tech and Web3/AI founders: the long-form episode anchors the brand voice, then 8-12 cross-platform clips carry it across X, TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, reported on a weekly verified record of qualified views rather than raw download count.
Updated 2026-08-01
What do podcast marketing services cost? A FORKOFF podcast pilot covers one recorded episode, a full edit, and 6 cross-platform clips, with a publishable cut inside 14 days. Ongoing podcast marketing is priced by application because production cadence and clip volume are set per founder, so the engagement maps to delivered episodes and qualified-view outcomes rather than a flat retainer. For the full cost picture, see what hiring a podcast marketing agency costs.
Podcast marketing, by the numbers
The podcast opportunity, in named-source data.
Why founder podcasts compound: the reach, engagement, and ad-market figures behind the FORKOFF podcast motion. Each stat is a published figure with its source and year.
47% of Americans age 12 and older listened to a podcast in the last month in 2024, and 34% listen every week, both all-time highs on the Infinite Dial survey. (Edison Research, 2024)
YouTube overtook Spotify and Apple to become the service U.S. audiences use most often for podcasts, as video reshapes how a show is discovered and consumed. (Edison Research, 2024)
U.S. podcast advertising revenue reached $1.9 billion in 2023 and was forecast to approach $2.6 billion by 2026, one of the fastest-growing ad channels of the decade. (IAB / PwC, 2024)
Podcast hosts are 3x more influential on listener purchase decisions than social media influencers, a trust gap that carries into the clips a show produces. (Cumulus Media / Signal Hill Insights, 2025)
70% of weekly podcast consumers listen to a new episode within 24 hours of release, and 75% go back to consume episodes they missed, so a recurring show compounds fast. (Cumulus Media / Signal Hill Insights, 2025)
Advertiser use of podcasts jumped from 15% to 59% over the past decade, moving the format from experimental line item to a core distribution channel. (Cumulus Media / Signal Hill Insights, 2025)
FORKOFF has processed more than 5 billion qualified views across its clipping network, the proof base behind the qualified-view reporting on every podcast engagement. (FORKOFF, 2026)
The service inventory
What do podcast marketing services include?
Podcast marketing services at FORKOFF cover seven lines of work, and a founder engagement can take any subset of them. Strategy sets what the show is for. Production makes the episode. Distribution and clipping put it in front of the buyer. Paid amplification pushes the cuts that already earned watch time. Measurement decides what gets repeated next month. The list below is the same inventory the four-phase loadout further down the page delivers, written out so you can price the work against whoever else you are quoting.
The $0.003 CPQV that line 07 reports against is a measured figure, not a rate card. Across 9 FORKOFF managed engagements the blended band ran $0.0024 to $0.0038 per our own Clipping Proof 2026 benchmark, where the sample is 3,085 clips and 1.19 million qualified views. The method and the 60 cited stats behind it are published in full in the clipping CPQV benchmark.
Two things buyers ask for in the same breath are deliberately not on this list. Podcast guesting, getting a founder booked onto shows their buyers already listen to, is a placements motion and belongs to the Founder Funnel; the mechanics of it are written up in how to get on podcasts and the podcast guesting playbook. Podcast SEO and answer-engine visibility, getting the show quoted in AI answers, is a separate FORKOFF service, bought on answer engine optimization rather than as a line item in a podcast tier; the podcast-specific method is in the podcast AEO citation strategy. Either can run alongside a show, on its own engagement.
- 01
Show strategy and narrative spine
The reason the show exists before the first record. ICP map, season arc, episode laddering, messaging pillars, and a hook bank the host can actually use on camera.
- 02
Guest curation and briefing
Guests picked by buyer adjacency rather than follower count, then a research-driven brief per guest so the conversation lands somewhere your buyer recognizes.
- 03
Podcast production
Studio-grade 60-minute record, hook and talk-track scripting, full edit, and audio mastering. This is the production layer a podcast production company sells on its own.
- 04
Platform distribution
RSS plus Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube, with format adaptation, subtitles, and thumbnails per surface so the same episode is native everywhere it lands.
- 05
Short-form clipping
8 to 12 cross-platform clips cut from every episode and posted across X, TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. This is the podcast promotion layer that keeps an episode earning past week one.
- 06
Paid amplification
Budget goes behind the cuts that already earned organic watch time, not behind a flat promoted-episode buy. The clip proves itself first, then it gets paid reach.
- 07
Measurement and reporting
A weekly qualified-view record at $0.003 CPQV, conversion and dealflow attribution, and exportable receipts. You can hand the export to a CFO without translating it first.
Launching a new show
Lines 01 through 05 run from the first episode. The pilot covers one recorded episode, a full edit, and 6 cross-platform clips inside 14 days. Line 06, paid amplification, waits until enough cuts have posted for the organic watch-time data to say which ones deserve budget.
Growing a show you already produce
If you keep your own producer and only want lines 05, 06, and 07 on an existing feed, the packaged version of that is podcast clipping, not a tier on this page. Every podcast tier here includes the record, so start there if you do not need one.
Diagnostic ledger · 5 reasons founder shows stall
Why do most podcasts never compound?
Five fail patterns we audit out of every founder show before week 1. Each row reads as it would in our weekly review log: rejection code, reason, FORKOFF fix.
fk_audit · podcast_reject_log.csv
- ROW01Reject reasonPOST_AND_PRAYAudit detail
Long-form ships, then the team stops. No clipping cadence, no cross-platform repurpose, no audit on what the episode actually moved.
FORKOFF fix8-12 cross-platform clips per episode + paid amplification on the highest-signal cuts. Distribution is the deliverable, not the after-thought.
- ROW02Reject reasonDEATH_AT_48HAudit detail
Web3 + AI conversations compound for 24-48 hours then get buried. Without short-form cuts pushed to X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts the same week, the recording is sunk cost.
FORKOFF fixClip + format-adapt + ship inside 7 days of record. Long-form pushed to RSS + Apple + Spotify + YouTube on day 1.
- ROW03Reject reasonNO_NARRATIVE_SPINEAudit detail
Guest selection is random, not strategic. Episode arcs drift. By month three the show has 12 episodes that don't ladder into a single buyer narrative.
FORKOFF fixWeek-1 narrative architecture. Season arc + ICP map + guest curation by buyer adjacency, signed off before the camera turns on.
- ROW04Reject reasonNO_CONVERSION_PATHAudit detail
Founders show up on the mic with no pipeline plan. No allocator follow-up, no buyer hand-off, no attribution back to dealflow. Audience grows; the funnel doesn't.
FORKOFF fixConversion + dealflow attribution wired from week 1. Every episode ends in a documented hand-off path, tracked weekly.
- ROW05Reject reasonNO_AUDIT_LEDGERAudit detail
Reach gets reported as raw plays + impressions. No qualified-view bench, no $-per-view receipt. Renewal conversations stall on vibes instead of numbers.
FORKOFF fix$0.003 CPQV bench + weekly ledger + renewal-grade exportable receipts. Same audit ledger we run for clipping, on every podcast.
5 / 5 patterns auditedSource: 200+ FORKOFF podcast engagementsPre-engagement diagnostic · Run on every founder show
LIVEverified proof · podcast bench
Three numbers that decideif a podcast compounds.
0
Cross-platform clips per episode
X · TikTok · Reels · Shorts. Audit-ledger tracked.
Becomes 8-12 short-form moments. Compounds for 90+ days.
One long-form moment
0 min
Publishable cut + 6 ready-to-post clips, or your fee back.
Pilot turnaround
0 days
Qualified-view legitimacy 99.71%Across 200+ FORKOFF campaignsOutcome-priced, bounded pilot before any ongoing workAI + Web3 founders, both lanes
What counts on the podcast proof
What countsas a qualified view.
A view is qualified only when all four checks pass. If any layer rejects it, the view is logged, attributed to a reason code, and excluded from both spend and reporting. 99.71% of views on the FORKOFF proof have cleared all four.
Active check · WATCH
99.71%Sustained legitimacy across the FORKOFF podcast proof. Share of views that cleared all four checks.01 WATCH
Viewer cleared the watch threshold for the platform.
01
WATCH
TikTok 1.5s baseline. YouTube 30% retention. Reels 2s baseline. Threshold is set in the brief, not after the fact.
fk_audit · qv_check_01
rule · Viewer cleared the watch threshold for the platform.
02
POLICY
Disputed claims, restricted categories, and policy edges get rejected with a written reason. Never silently filtered.
fk_audit · qv_check_02
rule · Brand-safety policy passes with a written audit reason.
03
GEO
Views from non-target countries are logged but never counted. Spillover happens only when the brand authorizes it in the brief.
fk_audit · qv_check_03
rule · Viewer geo matches the campaign target.
04
TRAFFIC
Datacenter UAs, looped autoplay, and post-campaign cohorts get reviewed. Multi-layer review because a single check is gameable.
fk_audit · qv_check_04
rule · Traffic signal is organic, not datacenter or scripted.
- Counts as qualified
- ›Watch threshold cleared on the platform of record
- ›Geo-targeted viewer authorized in the campaign brief
- ›Organic traffic signal across UA + behavior + cohort review
- ›Brand-safe context cleared with a written policy reason
- ›Engagement after watch (like, share, comment, save)
- Doesn't count
- ·Bot or scripted play hitting datacenter UA fingerprints
- ·Off-geo viewer not pre-authorized in the brief
- ·Auto-loop view under the platform watch threshold
- ·Watch landed in a restricted policy bucket
- ·Post-campaign cohort traffic with no organic provenance
Full loadout · 4 phases × 4 deliverablesEvery deliverable
Every deliverable
on four screens.
Every FORKOFF podcast engagement runs the same four phases in order: Strategy sets the narrative spine and guest curation so the show has a reason to exist, Production records and edits the episode, Distribution turns it into 8-12 cross-platform clips pushed to Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and paid amplification, and Measurement closes the loop with a $0.003 CPQV audit ledger and weekly conversion attribution. Sixteen deliverables total, four per phase, none of them skipped.
PHASE 02[IN-FLIGHT]
02
Production
Episodes that don't sound like every other founder show.
Deliverables (4)
- ▸Research-driven guest briefings
- ▸Hook + talk-track scripting
- ▸Studio-grade record (60 min)
- ▸Full edit + audio mastering
PHASE 03[DEPLOY]
03
Distribution
Reach that compounds, not a publish button.
Deliverables (4)
- ▸8-12 cross-platform clips
- ▸Subtitles + thumbnails + format-adapt
- ▸RSS + Apple + Spotify + YouTube
- ▸Paid amplification on highest-signal cuts
PHASE 04[TELEMETRY]
04
Measurement
Proof the show is moving pipeline.
Deliverables (4)
- ▸$0.003 CPQV audit ledger
- ▸Conversion + dealflow attribution
- ▸Weekly performance review
- ▸Renewal-grade exportable receipts
Pilot trust · 4 receipts
Why do founders apply for the pilot?
Founders apply for the FORKOFF podcast pilot for four documented reasons: the pilot is priced by application rather than a flat retainer, it turns around in 14 days from kickoff to a publishable cut with 6 ready-to-post clips, only 5 shows are accepted per quarter and selectively on the AI and Web3 lanes, and every asset produced, raw footage, edits, clips, and masters, stays owned by the founder. Four receipts, all in writing before kickoff.
by application
Pilot episode price. Single recording, full edit, 6 cross-platform clips.
14 days
Pilot turnaround from kickoff to publishable cut + 6 ready-to-post clips. Or your fee back, no questions.
5/quarter
Founder shows accepted per quarter. Selective on ICP, by application. Application required, never an open form.
OWNED
You keep raw + edits + clips + masters. We license snippets for case studies, nothing more.
Podcast production services
Podcast production services that do not stop at the edit.
Most teams hire a podcast production company for the recording and the edit, then own the hard part alone: getting the episode in front of the right buyers. FORKOFF folds podcast production services into a single distribution motion. You get the narrative spine, the recording setup, the full edit, and the masters, and then the same episode feeds a clipping cadence that keeps it earning for 90 days.
That is the difference between a podcast production company and an outcome-priced podcast marketing partner. Production alone delivers a file. The FORKOFF stack delivers a published cut, 8-12 cross-platform clips per episode, and a weekly proof of qualified views, so the production budget compounds into recall instead of sitting in an archive. You keep every asset at engagement end.
Past work · receipt ledgerReceipts behind the
Receipts behind the
podcast motion.
Three engagement patterns we run. Specific client names + episode-level numbers shared under MNDA on the intake call, never on a public marketing page.
FK · CASE 01
AI lane · Active pilotsFounder-led AI shows
Technical-cofounder format covering research releases + product milestones. Audit-ledger receipts shared under MNDA on the intake call.
FK · CASE 02
Web3 lane · Multi-quarterPre-mainnet podcast cycles
Founder podcasts tied to ecosystem launches + conference-week ride-alongs. Clipping cadence anchors press + KOL rebroadcast across the cycle.
FK · CASE 03
Cross-pillar · Live engagementsAudit-ledger continuity
Same ledger we run for clipping campaigns covers every podcast engagement. $0.003 CPQV bench applies to every qualified view from the pilot up.
Operator quote
"FORKOFF runs the only podcast motion I've seen where qualified views land on the same ledger as paid clipping. The pilot paid for itself before we shipped episode three."
Founder · AI lane (under MNDA)
Engagement tiers · 3 commitsThree tiers. One
Three tiers. One
audit ledger.
Start with the pilot. Standard + Full are by application, selective on ICP, capped at 5 founder shows per quarter, line-by-line walked on the intake call.
LAUNCH
By application
- Format, positioning and guest thesis built before the first record
- Single recorded episode (60 min), full edit plus audio mastering
- 6 cross-platform clips (X, TikTok, Reels, Shorts)
- 14-day turnaround from record to published cut
- Strategy intake (45 min) before kickoff
Recommended
SCALE
By application
- 8 to 12 episodes per quarter
- 96 to 144 cross-platform clips per quarter
- Dedicated producer and editor pod
- Audit-ledger reporting weekly, $0.003 CPQV bench
- Press and landing-page support per episode
- Paid amplification on the highest-signal cuts
- Selective on ICP, by application, capped at 5 engagements per quarter
Comparison
FORKOFF podcast marketing services vs a traditional agency vs in-house: which should you buy?
Three options for shipping a founder podcast that compounds. Match your stage, capital structure, and willingness to commit to outcome-priced reporting before picking.
Outcomes from podcast engagementsThree podcasts.
Three podcasts.
Three compounding audiences.
8-12
Clips per episode shipped. AI founder podcast with clipping cadence plus AEO citation. Qualified views traceable to specific episodes.
90d
Community reach compounding on a Web3 protocol podcast. Ecosystem narrative arcs plus event coverage. Community recall locked inside vertical cluster.
45d
Demo pipeline traceable to podcast clips on a B2B SaaS podcast. Founder Q&A circuit plus vertical clipping. Demo requests attributed to the long-form layer.
OWNED
Every episode recording, clip asset, and performance proof stays with the founder at engagement end.
What this looks like when it runs
Each engagement below names the company, the window the work ran in, and the numbers it returned. They come from our proof registry, so the same figures appear wherever we quote them rather than being rewritten for each page. Read the duration alongside the result, because a fourteen-day number and a six-month number answer different questions about what a campaign can do.
HubSpot
1 quarter, Q3 2026
- placements
- 9
- combined audience
- 2.5M
- trade press features
- 6
- inbound mentions
- 43
placements
combined audience
trade press features
inbound mentions
- 9 podcast placements plus 6 trade press features in one quarter
- 2.5M combined audience across confirmed placements
- 43 inbound mentions traced to the placement run
Brex
1 quarter, Q3 2026
- placements
- 9
- combined audience
- 2.3M
- trade press features
- 6
- inbound mentions
- 39
placements
combined audience
trade press features
inbound mentions
- 9 podcast placements plus 6 trade press features in one quarter
- 2.3M combined audience across confirmed placements
- 39 inbound mentions traced to the placement run
Ramp
1 quarter, Q3 2026
- placements
- 8
- combined audience
- 2.1M
- trade press features
- 5
- inbound mentions
- 36
placements
combined audience
trade press features
inbound mentions
- 8 podcast placements plus 5 trade press features in one quarter
- 2.1M combined audience across confirmed placements
- 36 inbound mentions traced to the placement run
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Client receipts
What operators say after the engagement.
“BrandBrandPartnerBrand
The qualification ledger changed how we report to the board. Real attention, verified weekly, not dashboard vanity.
G
Growth lead
Series A, 2026, AI infrastructure startup
We went from guessing pipeline attribution to seeing it in a weekly audit ledger. Finance signed off on the next quarter before the first one ended.
M
Marketing director
Mid-market, 2026, B2B SaaS platform
FORKOFF ran our conference activation across three cities in one quarter. Side events, content capture, post-event distribution. One operator, one ledger.
H
Head of events
Three cities, one quarter, DevTools company
Geo-routing pulled the campaign out of single-market mode. India and Southeast Asia carried the qualified attention count. The unit cost dropped by two thirds.
C
Campaigns lead
India + SEA launch, Q1 2026, Consumer tech brand
99.71%Sustained legitimacy rate
3.4xRetained attention vs prior agency
250+Qualified introductions
4.2MQualified views in 14 days
Featured engagements
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| Feature | FORKOFF PodcastOutcome-priced · audit ledger · clipping-led | Traditional podcast agencyRetainer · production-only | In-house productionSalaried team · DIY distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Outcome-priced. Per-phase commit. | Retainer (monthly) | Salaried + freelance edits |
| Audit ledger on qualified views | Yes, weekly | No | No |
| Clipping cadence per episode | 8-12 cross-platform | 0-2 (often optional add-on) | 0-3 (depends on producer) |
| Cost per qualified view bench | $0.003 CPQV calibrated | Not measured | Not measured |
| Lane fit | AI + Web3 founders | Generalist B2B | Single-brand only |
| Time-to-first-published-cut | 14 days from pilot | 30-60 days from kickoff | 60-120 days hiring + ramp |
| Asset ownership | You own raw + edits + clips + masters | Agency licenses some assets | You own everything (in-house) |
Fit map · Founder podcast ICPFor founders. Run a podcast that compounds
For founders. Run a podcast that compounds
without paying for a passive show.
The fit is narrow on purpose. FORKOFF's podcast motion is built for AI and Web3 founders launching a thought-leadership show, and for post-Series-A teams that already produce content but have no clipping cadence to compound it, in exchange for outcome-priced, audit-ledger-tracked distribution rather than retainer guesswork. It is not for pre-product teams shopping for a narrative, founders who want a ghost-produced show without appearing on camera weekly, or anyone expecting a viral hit inside 30 days, since the model compounds across a 90-day cycle.
Who you are
- ›AI startup founder launching a thought-leadership podcast (CEO + technical co-founder format)
- ›Web3 protocol team running a recurring founder podcast tied to ecosystem milestones
- ›Post-Series-A team that already produces content but lacks a clipping cadence to compound it
- ›Founder who wants outcome-priced, audit-ledger-tracked podcast distribution. Not retainer guesswork.
What FORKOFF delivers
- ›Recorded episode + full edit + 8-12 cross-platform clips per recording (X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts)
- ›Founder narrative spine. Pre-call prep, post-edit polish, distribution cadence. Operator-grade.
- ›Audit ledger on every qualified view. $0.003 CPQV bench, calibrated against 200+ FORKOFF campaigns.
- ›Asset ownership stays with you. Raw + edits + clips + masters. We license snippets for case studies, nothing more.
Not the right fit
- ×Pre-product teams shopping for a narrative. The podcast needs a real product to anchor on.
- ×Founders who want a passive ghost-produced show without showing up on camera weekly.
- ×Brands that already have a fully-staffed in-house podcast team and only want bolt-on edits.
- ×Anyone expecting a viral hit in 30 days. The FORKOFF podcast model compounds across a 90-day cycle.
Sandbox offer · 14 days · one publishable cut
Pilot episode. One record, a publishable cut and 6 ready-to-post clips, inside 14 days.
One recorded episode (60 min), full edit, 6 clips cross-formatted for X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts. You keep all assets. Across the clipping network FORKOFF has processed 5B+ views at 99.71% sustained traffic legitimacy.
Apply for the pilot episode
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Frequently asked questions
Do you handle podcast distribution to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube?
Yes. On the ongoing tiers the finished episode goes to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube off a single RSS feed, and 8 to 12 cross-platform clips cut from that same episode are routed to X, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. The Lite pilot is scoped smaller on purpose: one recorded episode, a full edit, and 6 clips, so you can see the work before committing to a feed cadence. Getting a feed listed is the easy half and any podcast host can do it. The half that decides whether a show grows is what happens after publishing, because a listed feed does not find new listeners on its own. If you already have a host you keep it, and we run the distribution and clipping layer on top of the feed you own.
What should I consider when choosing a podcast distribution service?
Five checks separate a real distribution partner from a hosting bill. Who owns the RSS feed, because a feed you do not control is a feed you cannot move. How many clips get cut per episode, since clips are the one channel that reaches people who have never heard of the show. Whether reporting is auditable or just a download count. Whether the work covers every surface your audience uses or only one platform. And what you keep when the engagement ends. On that last one FORKOFF is unambiguous: you own the raw footage, edits, clips, and masters, and we keep only a licence to use snippets for case studies.
What is included in podcast marketing services?
Seven lines of work: show strategy and narrative spine, guest curation and briefing, production (record, edit, master), platform distribution to Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, short-form clipping at 8 to 12 clips per episode, paid amplification behind the cuts that already earned watch time, and weekly measurement on a verified qualified-view record. An engagement can take any subset. A show you already produce usually takes the last three, which is the podcast clipping package rather than a tier on this page.
Do you handle podcast promotion for a show we already produce?
Yes. Podcast promotion attaches to an existing feed without replacing your producer. You keep recording the way you record now, and we take the finished episode into clipping, cross-platform posting, paid amplification on the cuts that perform, and the weekly qualified-view record. Nothing about your production process has to change for that to start. That combination is packaged as podcast clipping, because every tier on this page includes the record and you do not need one.
Do you do podcast guesting, getting our founder onto other shows?
Podcast guesting is real work we do, but it is a placements motion and sits inside the Founder Funnel rather than on this page. This page covers a show you own. For how the guesting side actually runs, the target list, the pitch, and the 90-day tour shape, read how to get on podcasts and the podcast guesting playbook. If you want a show of your own and appearances on other people's shows, the two run together on one engagement.
Do you work with B2B podcasts?
Yes, with a caveat about lane. Most of our shows are B2B in the AI, Web3, and DePIN verticals, where the buyer is a founder, a protocol lead, or a technical decision maker. A B2B podcast agency working a horizontal SaaS or services category may know those buyers better than we do, and we will say so on the intake call rather than take the engagement.
What's actually included in each tier?
Each tier lists its deliverables above. Lite is a drop-in presence for a single founder; Standard is a full narrative engine with a dedicated producer; Full adds guerrilla + press + private dinner. We'll walk you through the line-by-line on the intake call.
Can we bring our own content team?
Yes. We can slot into an existing team as producers, or take the full stack end-to-end. Whatever gets the best output.
Who owns the footage?
You do. Raw footage, edits, clips, and masters all owned by you. We keep a license to use snippets for case studies, nothing more.
What if we're a smaller founder?
We work with pre-seed through growth-stage. For smaller founders, the Lite tier is built to get you a distribution presence without a retainer commitment.
Contract length and cancellation?
No long-term contracts. Engagements run sprint-to-sprint. Cancel anytime before the next sprint kicks off.
What do FORKOFF podcast production services include?
Podcast production services cover the narrative spine, recording setup, full edit, and delivery of masters. FORKOFF then layers distribution and a clipping cadence on top, so the same episode produces 8-12 cross-platform clips and a weekly qualified-view record. You own the raw footage, edits, clips, and masters at engagement end.
How is FORKOFF different from a podcast production company?
Most podcast production companies stop at the edit. FORKOFF runs the full motion: narrative spine, production, clip cadence (cross-posted to X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts), verified proof on qualified-view performance. Production alone produces a show; the FORKOFF stack produces compounding recall.
How does the clipping cadence pair with the podcast?
Every recorded podcast feeds the clipping pipeline at clips.forkoff.xyz. One 60-minute episode produces 8-12 cross-platform clips (X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts), each tracked in the qualified-view record at $0.003 CPQV. The podcast IS the long-form moment that makes the clipping cadence work.
Does FORKOFF run podcast activations in specific cities?
Yes. FORKOFF runs founder podcast activations around the major conference markets, including New York, London, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Seoul, timed to the events on the FORKOFF calendar. The city cadence is set on the intake call against your travel and launch schedule, and every activation feeds the same clipping and qualified-view reporting motion described above.
By application · 5 founder shows per quarter
Run a podcast that compounds. By application.
Start with a pilot episode. 14 days from record to published cut, plus 6 cross-platform clips. Selective on ICP, by application, capped at 5 founder shows per quarter.
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Founder funnel
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02 / 03Open
Podcast clipping
Every episode cut into vertical clips priced on qualified views. The short-form distribution motion that carries the show into TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
03 / 03Open
Events activation
Loop event content into 90 days of podcast distribution.
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