In-house vs. agency: the real cost
The honest comparison is cash cost plus the hours a team isn't spending on something else.
In-house production runs roughly 9 to 15 labor hours per episode across research, booking, recording, editing, and repurposing, around $780 in loaded salary per 12-hour episode. Most teams break even against an agency retainer around 4 episodes a month; below that, outsourcing is typically cheaper on top of freeing up the hours. Packages with us start at $1,500 a month, month to month, with about two to three hours of your own time required.