Product Updates

Magic Video slides just got a major upgrade! We've added five new slide templates, improved how the AI picks them, and polished the overall look and feel.

Five new templates

Slides now come in nine styles, up from four. Here's what's new:

Stat — Highlights a key number or metric in large, bold text.
Timeline — Shows a sequence of events or milestones in order.
Comparison — Places two sides of a topic next to each other — great for pros and cons, or before and after.
Icon Grid — Displays a set of features or ideas with icons, headings, and short descriptions.
Split Image — Combines an AI-generated image with text, side by side.
These join the existing title, bullet, quote, and image templates.

Better variety across your video

The AI now picks slides with the full episode in mind, not just one section at a time. That means more variety — fewer repetitive bullet slides, more of the right template in the right place.

Refreshed visuals and animations

Every slide — new and existing — has been visually refreshed with cleaner layouts and better text sizing. Slides now animate in smoothly, with each element appearing one after another for a more polished feel.
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These updates are live now. Generate a Magic Video for any episode and your slides will automatically use the new templates.

You can now preview how a pronunciation sounds with any of your AI hosts.

Each entry in your pronunciation guide now has a speaker icon that generates example audio using your specific pronunciation. Click the button to see a dropdown with all your hosts, pick one to generate the preview, and you'll hear that host's voice pronounce the phonetic spelling instantly.

Each host may pronounce things slightly differently, so if you have multiple hosts with different voices, you can quickly switch between them to compare how each one handles the word.

Now you can test and refine pronunciations in a few seconds before ever touching your script or consuming credits.

Your analytics dashboard now includes video plays from your Jellypod-hosted podcast website, giving you a more complete picture of how your episodes are performing.

When someone watches an episode on your website, that activity now shows up in your plays-over-time chart, episode table, and platform breakdowns. Jellypod also appears as its own entry in the Top Apps section alongside Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the other platforms your audience uses.

The same rolling window filters you already use (1, 7, 30, and 90 days) apply across both audio and video plays, so everything stays consistent as you explore your data.

Previously, website video plays weren't reflected in the dashboard. If someone watched on your site instead of listening through a podcast app, you had no way to see that. Now your analytics cover both.

You now receive an email notification when your new episode finishes publishing and is live and playable.

Additionally, you’ll also receive an email for scheduled emails, confirming schedule creation and an additional email when your new podcast goes live.

The email includes quick actions for viewing the published episode, creating a social clip, and sharing on social media.

Previously, you had to keep checking back in Jellypod to see if your episode was ready. Now you can close the tab and get on with other work, knowing you will be notified the moment your episode is live and ready to share.

You can now create and apply image styles to keep your generated images visually consistent.

Image styles are reusable presets that combine text directions like "dramatic lighting, cinematic composition" with an optional brand color palette. When you generate an image, pick a style from the dropdown and it steers the output toward that look. There are nine built-in styles to start with, or you can create your own under the Images tab in the side panel.

Creating a custom style is straightforward. You can define it manually by writing your own instructions and choosing colors, or you can upload a reference image or paste a website URL and let the system extract the visual direction and dominant colors automatically. Once saved, your style shows up alongside the defaults whenever you generate images.

Before this, every image generation started from scratch with no way to carry a visual identity across outputs. If you wanted a consistent look you had to manually describe it in every prompt. Now you set it once as a style and reuse it wherever you need it.

You can now control whether a shared episode link is public or private.

When you open the share dialog on a draft or scheduled episode, you’ll see a new Link Visibility dropdown. The first time you share an episode, it defaults to public. Your link is live and shareable immediately.

If you’d rather keep it under wraps, switch to private and the social sharing buttons and copy-link input disable themselves. No one can grab a working link until you’re ready.

Previously, any draft episode link was accessible to anyone who had the URL. That made it tricky to share work-in-progress episodes with collaborators without risking premature public access. Now you decide exactly when an episode link goes live and you can revoke access just as easily by flipping it back to private.

You can now adjust playback speed when reviewing episodes in the editor.

A new speed control now appears in the timeline toolbar to the left of the play button. Click it to choose from speeds ranging from 0.5x to 2x. Your selection saves automatically and persists when you refresh the page or come back later.

Faster speeds are useful for quickly scanning through an episode to check pacing or find a specific section. Slower speeds help when you need to catch fine details or review complex passages. The audio pitch may shift at non-standard speeds, which is expected behavior.

Now you can speed through content at up to 2x, cutting your review time significantly without leaving the editing interface.

You can now generate images from text prompts directly in Jellypod.

Describe what you want, choose an aspect ratio (square, portrait, or landscape), and select how many variations to generate (between 1 to 4 per generation). Your images appear in a gallery where you can view them, download them, regenerate with tweaks, or delete ones you do not need.

Image generation use credits per image, so generating four variations costs four x {image_credit} credits. The gallery supports search by prompt text and shows processing status while images are being created.

Previously, you could only generate cover art for podcasts. Now you have a dedicated space to create any image you need, whether for social media posts, episode thumbnails, or other visual content. Your generated images live in one searchable library.

You can now fine tune how your host sounds and communicates by uploading example source materials. This makes it easier to align the host’s personality, tone, and style with your expectations.

When creating a new host or editing an existing one, you will find a Reference Materials page inside the host settings. This is where you can upload examples of how the host should write or speak. These materials help shape everything from word choice to overall voice.

You can upload a wide range of examples, including blog posts, essays, podcast transcripts, video scripts, or any other content that reflects the communication style you want. The more representative the materials are, the better the host can match that style.

Updating reference materials is simple. Just open the host editor, navigate through the settings, and add or replace source files on the Reference Materials page. Changes can be made at any time, so your host can evolve as your needs change.

By providing real examples, you give the system a clearer understanding of how your host should sound, making interactions feel more natural, consistent, and on brand.

You can now earn credits by inviting friends to Jellypod.

Open the new referral dialog in the bottom right of Jellypod’s sidebar (near your account settings) to get your unique referral link. When someone signs up using your link, both of you receive bonus credits. No purchase necessary. The referral bonus credits are added automatically to your account once the referral is confirmed.

There is no limit to how many people you can refer. Each successful referral earns credits for both parties, so the more people you invite, the more you earn.