Readouts

What a Readout is

A Readout is the same data you read in the app, turned into a document you can hand to someone else — a client, a sponsor, a co-host, or your own board. You pick the period and the sections, and PodAnalyst writes it up: the numbers, plus commentary on what they mean, under your own branding.

It's built for the moment after the analysis, when someone asks "so how did last month go?" and a screenshot won't do.

Pro feature

Readouts are available on Pro, Network, and Enterprise. On the Community plan, the Readouts page opens the upgrade prompt — see Plans and billing.

Building one

Open a show and choose Readouts. There are three things to decide, then you generate.

1. The scope. A single show, or your whole network. Whole-network Readouts add up every show you can see and need more than one show in the account — see Plans and billing for the plan limits.

2. The period. A single month (which also compares against the month before it), the past 60 days, or all time. The figures match what the same period shows on the Dashboard, so the Readout and the screen never disagree.

3. What to include. Every section is a box you can tick or untick.

The sections

Tick Select all to take the lot, or clear a section you don't need — a short Readout that answers the question beats a long one that buries it.

The commentary

Each section is written up by AI before it renders: a short piece of prose that reads the figures and says what they mean, plus a set of recommended next steps at the end of the Readout. It works only from the numbers in that Readout — it won't invent a market comparison or a trend that isn't in the data.

Every section has its own instruction behind it, and the instruction is what the writing follows. The default asks for a plain two-to-three-sentence read of the page. If you want a section to argue something different — a retention section that leads with the drop-off, an episode section that focuses on the back catalogue — you can rewrite it.

Open a section's panel to see the instruction currently in effect. Save for this show keeps it on that podcast; Save for the whole account makes it the default for every show. Reset to default puts the system instruction back, which also means a reset genuinely resets rather than leaving your version behind.

The rate card

The rate card section is a commercial page: the ad slots you sell and what each costs, set against the audience in the same Readout.

That audience is the average number of starting listeners across the episodes in the period, so the rates are shown against this Readout's own reach rather than a figure you type in. Leave the section off and the rest of the Readout is unaffected. Fill in a card for a show, or set one on the account for every show to inherit.

The cover

The first page is the Readout's cover: the show or network, the period, the scope, and the date it was issued. Three lines are yours to write — Prepared for, Prepared by, and Contact — under Cover on the Readouts page.

Fill them in for a show, or set them on the account and let every show inherit them. Leave one empty and the Readout falls back to the account name, PodAnalyst, and the address of whoever generated it.

Your branding

The document carries your colours, type, and artwork. Set a brand kit for a single show, or set one on the account and let every show inherit it — the same layering the rest of the Readout settings use. See Plans and billing for who on the account can change it.

Exporting

• Preview in browser — the Readout as a page, exactly as it will print.
• Download PDF — the document, ready to email or attach.
• Download slides — the same Readout as an editable 16:9 deck for PowerPoint or Google Slides, one section per slide.

The PDF and the deck are built from the same Readout object as the preview, so all three always say the same thing.