Reporting infrastructure for podcast agencies

Eliminate the risks. Automate the rest.

Not another dashboard for your team to operate. We build the reporting operation, run it every cycle, and own every exception before it reaches your client. A two-hour advertiser report becomes under fifteen minutes. Built on the tools you already use, with no platform migration.

Illustrative podcast campaign performance dashboard showing delivery, platform, conversion and revenue metrics
0Manual hours removed annually
0Concurrent advertisers supported
$0Annual labor cost saved

Three risks. Zero tolerance.

Every reporting cycle, the same three failure modes threaten advertiser trust. Podrelay controls each one before it reaches the client.

The reality

2 hours

Spent building one advertiser report by hand before the reporting operation was automated.

  • Inaccurate reportsWrong dates, mismatched sums, platform discrepancies. One bad report costs advertiser trust.
  • Missed ad readsA read that never runs, or runs in the wrong position, costs you a make-good.
  • Manual reporting dragHundreds of hours a year on pulling, pasting and formatting.

Build it once.
Run it monthly.

A paid implementation creates the system. Monthly managed operation keeps it accurate, current and dependable as sources, campaigns and client requirements change.

01 / Reporting review

We quantify it

30 minutes

We map your sources, client outputs, reporting load, current cost and operational risk.

02 / Custom implementation

We build it

Timeline confirmed after review

We connect the agreed sources and build the reports, dashboards, verification and QA workflows your operation needs.

03 / Acceptance review

You sign it off

Agreed acceptance criteria

We reconcile every output against source data. You approve the reporting experience before it goes live.

04 / Managed operation

We run it monthly

Monitoring, QA and delivery

We monitor, maintain and deliver the reporting operation, including source changes, platform changes and issue resolution.

What's manual costing you?

Set your campaign load. The math is yours. Adjust the assumptions until they match your shop.

Manual reporting drag Live estimate
40
Hrs / campaign / month
2
Internal cost · $/hr
45

Defaults: 2 hrs of pulling, formatting and verifying per advertiser campaign per month, at a $45/hr blended internal cost. Compare that with the fully loaded cost of the reporting hires your growth would otherwise require. Adjust until it matches your shop. Estimates, not quotes.

80HRS / MO burned on manual reporting
$3,600/ month
960hrs / year
24.0working weeks / yr

That's $43,200 a year on work a system should be doing. Stop the burn →

Automation at scale.

How our founder eliminated 1,500+ hours of manual reporting work inside a major US media network before Podrelay existed.

Major US media network 70+ concurrent advertisers Client withheld · figures actual
0 hours saved / year
~0.7 FTE annual reporting capacity returned
$0 annual labor cost recovered

The challenge

A major US media network was managing podcast advertising operations for a roster of high-volume shows, with more than 70 concurrent advertisers cycling in and out each month.

Every cycle hit the same three bottlenecks: manual multi-platform reporting, ad verification done by hand, and ever-present accuracy risk from moving figures between systems manually. The cumulative cost: well over 2,000 hours per year of skilled labor on work that added no strategic value.

The approach

The system was designed and deployed on top of the network's existing tools, with no platform migration or disruption. Three integrated layers:

  • Reporting operations pulling every platform into clean, client-ready reports
  • QA automation validating every figure before it reaches a client
  • Ad verification and show QC confirming each ad ran correctly across every episode

The result

  • 1,500+ hours of manual work eliminated annually
  • Approximately 0.7 FTE of reporting capacity returned to higher-value work
  • QA catches discrepancies before clients see them
  • Reports that took days now generate on schedule, automatically
  • Verified, accurate, on-time reporting every cycle

Client identity withheld under confidentiality. Hours and advertiser counts reflect actual results achieved. The labor cost figure applies a deliberately conservative $35/hr blended internal rate, below the $45/hr default in the estimator above.

Built on the tools you already use.

No platform migration required. We build around the platforms your agency already runs on.

  • Podscribe
  • Spotify
  • Apple Podcasts
  • YouTube
  • Google Sheets
  • Looker Studio
  • RSS
  • Boostr
  • Salesforce

Ready to stop doing it manually?

Book a 30-minute reporting infrastructure review. We'll map your reporting workflow and show you where automation returns the most.