Product Updates

Jellypod can now make Shorts: standalone vertical videos you generate from a single prompt.

Type what you want the Short to be about, or drop in a source (a file, link, or pasted text), pick a host to narrate it, and choose about 30 or 60 seconds. Jellypod writes the script, performs the narration in your host's voice, animates it shot by shot in an illustrated Paper Mache style, scores it with an original instrumental track, and adds word-synced captions. What comes back is a finished 9:16 video, ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

One prompt in, a finished Short out. There is no timeline to assemble and no template to configure.

When you want to change something, the Short opens in an editable workspace. Rewrite the narration for any beat, regenerate a visual or drag in your own image or video, swap the host, or replace the music. Then share a public link or download the video.

Shorts live in the Shorts tab in the studio sidebar. Generating one costs 5 credits per second of the final video. For the full walkthrough, see Creating Shorts and Managing Shorts.

You can now turn a slide deck into a narrated video.

Head to Slide Voiceovers in the studio, pick a narrator, and upload a deck (PDF, PowerPoint, or Keynote). Jellypod writes a script, generates the narration in that voice, and assembles a video where each slide is timed to the words spoken over it. The result opens as a normal episode, so you can edit the script, regenerate audio, and adjust the timeline before you download.

See Slide Voiceovers for the full walkthrough.

Your podcast website now ships with five layouts, with four new templates joining the original Spotlight design.

Pick Editorial for a clean, searchable episode list, Broadcast for a bold hero with a waveform over a dark gallery, Conversation for warm single-column cards, or Magazine for an editorial card grid. Set a brand color to tint the accent, and the preview updates live as you switch layouts, so your content stays exactly the same while the look changes.

Open the website editor from Website Builder in the sidebar, pick a podcast, and try them out. See the full walkthrough in Your Podcast Website.

Background music now loops to fill your whole episode automatically.

Drop in a track that is shorter than your show and it repeats cleanly from the first word to the last, so you no longer need a clip the exact length of your episode. Drag the edge of the background clip to trim it shorter or extend it longer, and it keeps looping to fill whatever length you set. The background track also has its own color now, so it is easy to see how it layers under your dialogue.

See Adding Music for the full walkthrough.

You can now import a NotebookLM audio overview into Jellypod and rebuild it as an editable episode with your own hosts.

Open a podcast, click the upload icon next to Create New Episode, and choose Import from NotebookLM. Pick the two hosts you want, drop in the audio, and Jellypod transcribes it, separates the speakers, and creates a draft episode whose script you can edit line by line before generating audio in your hosts' voices. This is different from Upload Episode Audio, which publishes a recording as-is: Import from NotebookLM turns the audio back into a script you control.

It works with any audio file (NotebookLM is just the common starting point), up to 30 minutes. See Importing a NotebookLM Audio Overview for the full walkthrough.

Google shipped a major NotebookLM update of its own shortly after this feature launched. It didn't touch Audio Overviews, we broke down what actually changed.

The AI assistant you already use can now create podcasts in your Jellypod account with the new MCP Connector.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client to https://mcp.jellypod.com/mcp, sign in once, and your assistant works inside your account end to end: create a podcast and its hosts, drop in sources from a URL or pasted text, generate an episode, and publish it, all without leaving the chat. Ask Claude to "turn this article into a two-host episode and publish it to my morning show" and it happens in your account. Nothing publishes on its own, and live content can't be deleted by accident.

It's available to all users. See MCP Connector for the full setup walkthrough and the complete list of what your assistant can do.

The Jellypod Partner Program now pays 30% recurring commission for a year on every paid subscription you refer.

This is real revenue share, not a one-time credit. Refer someone who runs a training program, a course, or a newsroom, and once their team is paying you earn 30% of every invoice they pay Jellypod for their first 12 months as a customer.

How to apply

The program is application-gated. Apply at partners.dub.co/jellypod, or open the "Become a partner" card in the studio sidebar. Once you are approved, copy your unique partner link and start sharing, then track referred sign ups and payouts in the partner portal.

Commission is 30% of what each referred organization actually pays, for up to 12 months per customer. See the Referral Program docs for the full walkthrough.

Podcasts can now be generated via email. Automations now can have their own unique email address and anything sent is transformed into a podcast episode, generated from the email's content.

If you already write a newsletter or blog, email automations turn that content into a second channel without additional work. Set your automation's address as a new subscriber to your Substack, Ghost, or beehiiv, and every issue you send your readers also goes out as a podcast conversation to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

Set up a new Automation in the sidebar, then send a newsletter to the provided email address. Full documentation here in Podcast Automations.

It is one of a few ways to trigger episode generation from tools you already use. See content marketing automation for the rest, including Zapier and n8n triggers from a broader marketing stack.

We've added a new video template called Conversation that puts your hosts on screen side by side.

It's a natural fit for multi-host shows. Each host gets their own avatar, and that avatar pulses whenever they are the one talking, so viewers can always tell who is speaking.

How to use it

1. Open an episode in the editor and find the video player controls.
2. Click Template Library and pick Conversation in the "Choose a template" dialog.
3. Click "Use Conversation" to apply it, then generate your video.

We've made Conversation the default template for new episodes, so multi-host videos use it out of the box. It pulls in the hosts who actually speak in your script and renders their avatars, so add a photo to each host to get the most out of it.

You can now customize your podcast's brand and background color.

This color will apply to the background of your generated video and sets the accent on your podcast website. If a specific episode needs its own color, you can override the podcast-level color just for that episode without touching the rest of the show.

How to use it

To set a podcast-wide color:

1. Go to the Podcast you'd like to edit.
2. Click through the "Edit Details" until the last step for "Additional Settings".
3. You'll see a Brand Color picker here. Drag the color wheel or type a hex value, and click "Save".

To edit the color per episode:

1. Open the episode you want to customize.
2. On the top navbar, next to the template and video orientation buttons, you'll see a new Color Picker.
3. Use that dropdown picker to set the episode color and click "Save as podcast default" to promote this color choice to the entire podcast, including future episodes.

If you don't manually choose a color, podcast episodes inherit the primary color from your cover art unless you override it.