What made verified-brand monitoring the part of Podscan you wanted to make free?
How Podscan changed, before and after. By 
Arvid Kahl.
Podscan made brand monitoring free for verified brands.
Paid monitoring started at $100 a month Verified brands can monitor themselves for free
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ArvidFounder, Podscan01 / What changed
Podscan made brand monitoring free for verified brands.
The August page moves from its annual-billing note directly into Premium, Professional and Advanced plans. By October, Podscan inserts a new free offer before those plans: verified brands can use Premium-level monitoring at no charge after DNS verification. The paid plans remain and reserve full Share of Voice, higher API access, the Firehose and add-ons.
BeforePaid monitoring started at $100 a month
AfterVerified brands can monitor themselves for free
The captures bound the visible rollout between August 29 and October 5, 2026. They do not establish the exact release date, who designed the pricing-page presentation or the effect on signups, usage or revenue.
Open the core monitoring workflow without giving away the whole data platform.
Our reading: the free verified-brand offer gives companies a reason to begin monitoring their own mentions, while paid plans retain the capabilities that support broader competitive and data workflows. Audiohook connected the acquisition to wider free access, but neither company has published a result for this specific pricing change.
BeforeStart with a paid plan.
The page moves directly from annual billing into Premium at $100 a month.
AfterVerify your brand and begin free.
Premium-level monitoring becomes a free entry point, with advanced data capabilities still paid.
How Arvid described the Audiohook acquisitionArvid Kahl · Founder, Podscan
Oct 6, 2026
This is closer to a merge, and I'm not going anywhere.
Arvid explains the acquisition and his continued role. He does not attribute the exact pricing-page edit to the transaction or report its impact.
Read the post on LinkedInWhat happened after the change?
THE OPEN QUESTION
Did free monitoring bring more verified brands into Podscan or create more qualified demand for the paid data platform?
We need Arvid’s perspective to connect this change to the results.We don’t have the results yet.
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Q&A · THE CONVERSATION
Ask Arvid about this change.
The story does not have to end here. What would help you learn from this decision?
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Questions
4How did the Audiohook acquisition change what Podscan could offer without charge?
Which behavior would tell you the free entry point is working?
Where do you want the boundary between free monitoring and paid intelligence to sit over time?