Questions people ask before they sign up.

ProdBeast is a video review and publishing workspace for content creators and the editors who work with them. An editor uploads a finished cut, the creator or client reviews it in the browser with time-stamped comments and approves or rejects it, and the approved cut is published straight to YouTube with full metadata, thumbnail and schedule. It replaces the WhatsApp to Google Drive to YouTube shuffle that this handoff usually runs on.

ProdBeast is for anyone whose finished video has to pass through someone else before it goes live — a creator working with an editor, an in-house team with a reviewer, or an agency working with clients. If a cut needs to be watched, commented on and signed off before it is published, that is the workflow it is built around.

Drive holds the file but cannot hold feedback on a specific frame, and it cannot record who approved which cut. WhatsApp holds the conversation but loses it against the video. ProdBeast keeps the video, the time-stamped feedback, the approval decision and the publish button in one place, so nobody has to reconstruct which version was signed off or what the note at the middle of the video actually referred to.

Your finished files live in your own Google Drive, under your account, and stay there — we do not keep a copy of your library. For review we prepare one temporary streaming version, because Drive hands back a single fixed-quality original that stalls when someone scrubs through it. That copy is deleted when you publish, and expires on its own after 14 days if you never do.

No. The browser uploads directly into your Google Drive using a resumable upload, so the file never passes through ProdBeast servers and there is no size ceiling imposed by us. Multi-gigabyte masters are the normal case rather than the exception.

Nothing. They are already in your own Google Drive and stay exactly where they are, whether or not you keep paying us. The temporary streaming copies we make for review expire on their own.

No. You can send a share link, and whoever opens it can watch the cut and leave time-stamped comments without creating an account. If you enable it on the link, they can approve the video too. For many teams the client never signs up at all.

Yes. Every comment can be pinned to a timecode, and pinned comments appear as markers inside the player control bar directly under the scrub bar — hover to read one, click to jump to that moment. Comments also support @-mentions, emoji reactions and file attachments.

You request changes with a written reason, and the other party is emailed. When the editor has a new cut, they upload it against the same item as a new version, so the entire comment thread and status history stay attached rather than starting over in a new file.

Yes. Once a video is approved, ProdBeast uploads the master from your Drive to your connected YouTube channel with the title, description, tags, category, privacy setting, thumbnail and scheduled publish time you set. Direct YouTube publishing is available on the Content Creator plan.

Yes. After a video goes live, ProdBeast pulls YouTube Analytics back in for that video: views, watch-time hours, likes, comments and a daily views series, shown next to the video it belongs to instead of in a separate dashboard.

Google Drive for storage, YouTube for publishing and analytics, and Razorpay for subscription billing in Indian rupees. You connect your own Google and YouTube accounts by OAuth, so the files and the channel remain yours.

There is a free plan at zero cost that covers a basic review workspace, share links, time-stamped comments and approvals, capped at 7 uploads a month and without YouTube publishing. The Editor plan is 899 rupees a month for unlimited reviews, comments and review-ready share links. The Content Creator plan is 1,399 rupees a month and adds direct YouTube publishing and priority publishing.

Yes. The free plan gives you a working review workspace — share links, time-stamped comments and approvals — with a cap of 7 uploads a month and no YouTube publishing. No credit card is required to start.

You can cancel at any time from your billing settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle: your plan stays fully active through the period you have already paid for, and then downgrades to the free plan rather than cutting off immediately.

ProdBeast was founded by Yadav Narayan. He built it after watching finished video work sit idle — not because anyone was slow, but because the feedback loop between the person who edits and the person who approves had nowhere to live. You can read more on the About page.

Yes. Alongside personal workspaces, ProdBeast supports organisation workspaces on their own subdomain, with roles for contributors, editors, viewers and admins so an agency can separate who uploads, who comments, who approves and who manages members.