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Make your podcast work harder.

Your show

What conventional video would cost you
How optimistic should the model be?
Combined annual opportunity

Cost saved  +  sponsorship inventory

Estimated — see what this model assumes

Save

Estimated annual saving vs. conventional video production

Conventional production, per year
Liquid Studios at $10 per finished minute, per year
Cost reduction
Reach

Estimated annual video impressions across long-form and social

Video assets produced per year
— social clips
— long-form episodes
Assumed views per social clip
Earn

Estimated annual value of the sponsorship inventory that reach creates

Gross inventory value at CPM
Assumed share actually sold
What this model assumes

Fixed across every scenario

  • Liquid Studios pricing of $10 per finished minute of video.
  • 2 social clips produced per episode, alongside the long-form video.
  • 300 views per long-form episode video.
  • Conventional benchmarks of $1,000 / $5,000 / $12,000 per episode for basic, standard and premium production.

Set by the scenario you choose

  • Social lift — the multiple applied to your current views per social video (1×, 2×, 3×).
  • New-channel views — used instead when you have no posting history (500, 1,500, 3,000 per clip).
  • Sponsor CPM — $20, $30 or $40 per thousand impressions.
  • Sell-through — the share of inventory assumed sold (50%, 75%, 100%).

What we are less sure about

The social lift multiples and the new-channel view counts are modelling assumptions, not research-backed benchmarks. Real performance depends on format, niche, posting cadence and the platform's distribution, and varies by orders of magnitude between shows. The cost side is far more solid than the reach and sponsorship sides; weight them accordingly.

These are estimates, not a quote. The cost side is grounded in Liquid Studios' per-minute pricing and published production benchmarks. The reach and sponsorship sides rest on modelling assumptions about social performance that vary enormously by show — treat them as a range to discuss, not a forecast.

Next step

Run it on your actual catalog.

A calculator can only model a show. Bring us your feed and we will come back with real numbers — what your back catalog costs to transform, what comes out the other side, and how quickly.