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Saturation

Production finance software, built for YouTube teams.

Saturation is budgeting and expense tracking software for YouTube and podcast teams, built by producers. Give every video or episode its own budget, hand the crew cards with limits and know what each one cost.

Trusted by 17,700+ producers managing $2.7 billion in production spend.

Used by the teams behind top creators.

From Challenge Accepted to Modern Wisdom, the teams behind the videos you watch budget and track their spend in Saturation.

Creator-scale production finance

Budget each video, hand the crew cards and match every receipt to its charge.

P-Cards

Set the limit before it ships.

Receipt scanning

Drop in a folder of receipts. They arrive coded, on the right lines.

Auto-categorization

Charges arrive already coded.

Project Library

Seven kinds of reference data, current everywhere.

Payments

Every payment, in one place.

Reports

Drag blocks onto the page and split a row in two.

Run every video like a production.

A channel or a video podcast with a crew, a studio and sponsors spends real money every week. Saturation gives each video or episode a budget, puts every card charge and receipt against it and shows what it cost when it goes live.

  • A budget for every video
  • Cards with spend limits
  • Receipts matched to charges

Every charge with its receipt.

Open a card charge to see the receipt attached to it, or add the one that is missing.

Explore expense management

From idea to upload.

Budget it, shoot it, close it.

  1. Budget the video

    Start from a template and price each line.

  2. Spend on a card

    Issue a card to the video with its own limit.

  3. Close it out

    Receipts are matched to their charges, so the total is ready when the video is.

Every video gets its own allocation.

Set a cap for each project and see what is spent and what is left, side by side.

Explore banking

Try it on your next video.

14 days free. No credit card required.

One channel, every seat.

What creators, producers and finance each get from it.

Creator

Know what a video cost before the next one starts.

Open any video and read its budget against what was spent.

  • Estimate and actual side by side
  • Videos grouped by series
  • Budgets shared by read-only link
Producer

Run the shoot without chasing receipts.

Issue a card to the video, and each charge lands against its budget with the receipt attached.

  • Cards issued to a project
  • Receipts matched to charges
  • Purchase orders routed for approval
Finance

Costs that arrive already coded.

Card charges, invoices and receipts land against the video and the budget account they belong to.

  • Budget accounts mapped to the ledger
  • Transactions exported to CSV
  • Vendors onboarded by link

Questions YouTube and podcast teams ask

Straight answers, before you start.

Yes. If your channel runs with a crew, vendors and a budget for each video, it works the way a production does. Each upload is a project with its own budget and actuals.

Yes. Each video is a project, started from a template. Group projects into a space per series or per sponsor campaign, and save filtered views of them.Budgeting

Yes. A video podcast runs the same way: each episode is a project with its own budget, and studio time, editors and travel are tracked against it. Group a season or a sponsor run into one space to see the episodes together.

Yes. Issue a virtual card to a video with its own spend limit. Each charge lands against that video, and receipts are matched to the charge they belong to.Production P-cards

Yes. Send a freelancer an onboarding link and they add their own details, W-9 and bank account. Payments go out by ACH or domestic wire.Vendor onboarding

Yes. The Creator plan is free and covers one active project for one person, with budgeting, actuals and budget templates.See pricing

Know what every upload cost.

Put your next video through it and see for yourself.

14 days free. No credit card required.