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Craig Hewitt is the founder and CEO of Castos, a podcast hosting platform serving 40,000+ brands. He's produced over 500 podcast episodes, helped launch 10,000+ shows, and has been in the podcasting industry since 2015. Craig has been featured in tech, startup, and podcasting publications like Startups For The Rest Of Us, PodNews, Mixergy, and dozens of other popular podcasts and YouTube channels. He also has spoken and sponsored Podcast Movement, the premier conference for podcasters. He is a supporter of PodcastIndex and the Podcasting 2.0 tag set.
Have you ever wondered if you should upload a podcast to YouTube? Growing a podcast boils down to this: put your stuff anywhere your audience will see it. Yes, it would be great if everyone flocked to your website to listen to your episodes. But that isn’t how the web works. If you want a ... Read more
If you've wondered how to start a podcast, you’re in the right place! In this article, we'll show why now is the perfect time to take a show from dream to reality and the 6 steps it'll take to get you there. What's in This Guide Grow Your Audience with Castos Try Castos for free ... Read more
The Castos team is full of podcasters. Some produce a show about WordPress and its community and others talk about their journey as an entrepreneur. It's a no brainer that the people behind the product that champions podcasting on your own terms are doing just that. Being on both sides of the industry, as content ... Read more
Want to know how start a podcast on Spotify? Spotify is a popular hosting platform for podcasters these days due to their heavy investment in the podcasting space and free hosting plans. While many podcasters enjoy the no-cost hosting of their show, free tools often lack the important features and services that paid tools offer. ... Read more
Today, we released two exciting updates to the Castos platform: enhanced podcast landing pages and an even better onboarding experience. These updates are a result of wanting to give our customers more control over their content from the get-go. We're committed to helping you podcast on you own terms and for us, that means being ... Read more
On today’s episode of Podcast Hackers, Joe Casabona joins me to talk about how he sells courses through his podcast. We also talk about his history in development as an educator, how to create and sell a course, breaking down modules and lessons, finding your target audience, how a podcast audience can change, the importance ... Read more
When you think of optimizing your podcast for SEO, things that come to mind are likely keywords, how to target them, or strong content strategies. But, most people don’t associate podcasts with search engine optimizations and are missing some key growth opportunities. In this post, we'll teach you SEO for podcasts, including some podcast SEO ... Read more
On today’s episode, I’m chatting with Nathan Wrigley of WPBuilds about how he transition from podcasting as a hobby to podcasting as a full-time job. We talk about how WPBuilds has changed over the months, making the decision to making podcasting his full-time job, niche podcasts, the big surprises in podcasting full-time, what he does ... Read more
One of the hallmarks of the Castos platform is giving you the option to publish your podcast content wherever you'd like. Specifically, this means you can publish new podcasts and their respective episodes: If you choose the latter, where you will manage your podcast via WordPress with the help of our Seriously Simple Podcasting ... Read more
Today I talk with Srinivas Rao of the Unmistakable Creative. We talk about the Unmistakable Creative podcast, hobbies versus jobs, podcasting ambitions, Srinivas’ book “An Audience of One”, his new book pitch, continuously producing content, when you should edit your own content, advice for new podcasters, how you build your own audience, formulas for success, ... Read more
Many of us have recently upgraded to the newest Mac OS release, Catalina, and with it have experienced issues with our beloved, and long-time recommended audio recording/editing tool, Audacity. This leaves us looking for an Audacity alternative for our editing needs. First, a bit of background: Audacity is an open source, cross platform (meaning it ... Read more
In this article, we're going over the benefits of consistently publishing podcast episodes. We're breaking down why it's so important to stick to a schedule and how reliably releasing new content will help set your listener's expectations. If you're unsure how consistently publishing a podcast supports growth, stick around for our top four reasons why ... Read more
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