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Castos Creator Spotlight

Castos Creator Spotlight: Scott LaBonte from Sheboygan Stories: Unhoused and Unheard

The people behind great podcasts Welcome to fourth edition of our Creator Spotlight series, where we highlight the people behind the podcasts and the thoughtful work they’re bringing into the world. Giving a Microphone to the People Behind the Statistics In an early episode of Sheboygan Stories: Unhoused and Unheard, a man named Jimmy described ... Read more

Jimmy Baum
Jimmy Baum · · 3 min read
Castos Creator Spotlight

Castos Creator Spotlight: Scott DeLuzio from Drive On Podcast

The people behind great podcasts Welcome to third edition of our Creator Spotlight series, where we highlight the people behind the podcasts and the thoughtful work they’re bringing into the world! Scott DeLuzio didn't start Drive On Podcast because he wanted to. He started it because he had to. Scott is a United States Army ... Read more

Jimmy Baum
Jimmy Baum · · 2 min read
Castos Creator Spotlight

Castos Creator Spotlight: Laura and Heidi from The Life of Letters Podcast

The people behind great podcasts Welcome to second edition of our Creator Spotlight series, where we highlight the people behind the podcasts and the thoughtful work they’re bringing into the world! The Life of Letters Podcasts is a show for stationery lovers, pen pals, letter writers and anyone who loves slow living and analogue creativity. ... Read more

Jimmy Baum
Jimmy Baum · · 2 min read
Castos Creator Spotlight

Castos Creator Spotlight: Janel and Anna from Flying the Coop

The people behind great podcasts This is the first edition of our Creator Spotlight series, where we highlight the people behind the podcasts and the thoughtful work they’re bringing into the world. First up is Janel and Anna from the Strange Birds and their podcast Flying the Coop! Some podcasts are built to teach you ... Read more

Jimmy Baum
Jimmy Baum · · 2 min read
Podcast Equipment

Best Microphones for Podcasting in 2025: Complete Buyer's Guide

Your microphone is the one piece of gear that can make or break your entire show. Seriously: people will put up with a lot, but muffled, echoey, or tinny audio? They’re gone in under a minute. No fancy editing trick in the world can save a bad recording. The good news? You don't need to ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 15 min read
Content Creation

How to Screen Record on iPhone: Podcast Creator Guide

How to Screen Record on iPhone: Complete Guide for Podcast Creators Most podcasters focus exclusively on audio, but your iPhone's screen recording feature can be a secret weapon for growing your audience with video content. Here's the thing: podcast creators often struggle to create engaging video content for social media promotion, tutorials, and behind-the-scenes looks, ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 22 min read
Podcast Monetization

Podcast Ads: The Complete Guide to Monetizing Your Show [2025]

The podcast advertising market exceeded $4 billion in 2025, growing by nearly 33% year-over-year. And here's what most podcasters don't realize: you don't need millions of downloads to start earning from podcast ads. Traditional ad networks will tell you that you need 10,000 or even 20,000 downloads per episode before you can monetize. But the ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 26 min read
Development

Embed Your Podcast Player Anywhere

Distribution is the name of the game when it comes to any kind of content, and podcasting is no different. We all want easy, and ideally automated, ways to share our content everywhere our audience is already hanging out. To help with this, we've built beautiful, responsive players and Playlist Players to allow you to ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 5 min read
Content Creation

Why Coaches Choose Podcasting Over Social Media (And How to Start Your Show)

Most coaches and consultants believe they need to be everywhere online, posting daily on social media, writing weekly blogs, and constantly networking, just to build authority and attract clients. But this scattered approach creates a serious problem: your expertise gets diluted across crowded platforms where prospects scroll past without truly understanding what makes you different. ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 8 min read
Private Podcasting

Connect Ghost and Castos For Private Podcasting

Running a successful podcast while managing multiple subscriber platforms can feel like juggling flaming torches. If you're using Ghost for your website and newsletter management but hosting your podcast on Castos, you've probably found yourself manually transferring subscriber information between platforms...a time-consuming process that's prone to errors. What if you could automate this entirely? Today's ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 6 min read
Podcast Monetization

10 Ways To Use Hybrid Podcasting to Grow Your Brand

Hybrid Podcasting sits in that sweet spot between public and private content, offering a "freemium" model similar to what you see with platforms like Substack. You provide your regular public content while offering exclusive Subscriber Benefits to your most engaged fans, creating deeper, more profitable connections with your audience. We look at Hybrid Podcasting as ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 8 min read
Development

Set Up Apple Podcasts Subscriptions With Castos

We're thrilled to announce that all Castos customers can now offer exclusive Subscriber Benefits to listeners directly through Apple Podcasts Subscriptions. In this guide, we'll show you how to get started with this exciting monetization opportunity that works alongside Castos' other revenue-generating features like Dynamic Ad Insertion and Castos Commerce. First, A New Type Of ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 6 min read