Use case
A daily briefing on the one topic you actually follow
Pick the topic. PodThis checks what is new, writes a short script and voices it, on the schedule you set. About ten minutes, ready before you leave the house.
The Swedish housing market — interest rates, new builds, what the banks are saying
- Name the topic
One line: an industry, a market, a league, a company, a city. The briefing follows it from then on.
- Pick the rhythm
Every day, weekdays or weekly, and the time it should be ready. Weekdays at 07:00 is the default.
- Listen
The first episode generates right away. Each one after that covers only what changed since the last.
What a briefing is
Daily Briefing is one of the nine styles in the studio, like Documentary or Interview, with one difference: it runs on a schedule. You give it a topic once. Before each episode the pipeline researches what has happened since the previous one and writes the script around that, with an explicit instruction not to re-explain the basics from earlier episodes.
Episodes default to Short, about ten minutes, because that is what a commute or a coffee fits. The research is done with Google Gemini and the sources it used are listed on the episode page.
Every day, weekdays or weekly
- Weekdays is the recommended rhythm for anything that moves during the working week: a sector, a market, a competitor set.
- Every day suits fast news, a live tournament, an election run-up.
- Weekly keeps slower topics meaty. A quiet subject on a daily schedule gets thin; weekly gives it seven days of material.
You choose a “ready by” time between 06:00 and 17:00 in your own time zone. The episode is produced ahead of it and waits in your library. The rhythm and the time can be changed later, and a briefing can be paused and resumed, from your plan settings. The topic is fixed per briefing; a new topic is a new briefing.
What it costs
Your first five briefing episodes are free on any plan. After that a briefing episode costs about one credit. Weekdays comes to roughly 22 credits a month, which fits the Creator plan at $9. Weekly is about 4 credits a month and fits the free plan with its 3 monthly credits plus rollover. If a plan runs out of credits the briefing pauses rather than failing; you resume it once credits renew. See pricing.
Good to know
- Briefings are available in the same 80 languages as every other style.
- Each episode is a normal PodThis episode: chapters, a transcript, cover art, an MP3 download. You choose whether it is private, unlisted or public.
- Briefing episodes are not reviewed by a person before you hear them. Read the editorial policy for what is and is not checked.
Make yours
Every account starts with 5 credits and gets 3 more each month. A short episode costs one. Every feature is on every plan.