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Development

Product Update: Enhanced Podcast Landing Pages & Better Onboarding

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 5 min read
How to Promote a Podcast: Your 2023 Guide
Landing Pages

How to Promote a Podcast: Your 2023 Guide

If you're looking to learn how to promote a podcast and grow a listenership, you're in the right place! You likely got into podcasting with the goal of sparking a conversation around a topic you're passionate about. Cultivating a community of listeners from around the world who share your interests, who value your point of ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 13 min read
Podcast Promotion

How to Increase Podcast Downloads With 18 Actionable Tips

Full disclosure: there is some debate about how podcast directories count podcast downloads versus listens. However, both measurements represent a podcast's audience and the number of people who routinely consume its content. For us, increasing a podcast's downloads ties directly to increasing its total number of subscribers. Many listening platforms automatically download new episodes for ... Read more

Dennis Hammer
Dennis Hammer · · 10 min read
PH042: Selling Courses Through Your Podcast with Joe Casabona
Episodes

PH042: Selling Courses Through Your Podcast with Joe Casabona

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 1 min read
itunes podcast rankings
Podcast Distribution

How Do iTunes Podcast Rankings Work?

Think back to the last time you browsed for a podcast to listen to. You probably picked an interesting category and explored whatever appeared on top. And you probably chose a show that was fairly close to the top of the list (at least in the top 100 of the Apple podcast charts). That’s how ... Read more

Dennis Hammer
Dennis Hammer · · 8 min read
seo for podcasts
Podcast Promotion

Everything You Should Know About SEO For Podcasts

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 8 min read
PH041: Going Full Time As A Podcaster with Nathan Wrigley of WPBuilds
Episodes

PH041: Going Full Time As A Podcaster with Nathan Wrigley of WPBuilds

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 1 min read
Development

How Castos And Seriously Simple Podcasting Work Together

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 8 min read
PH040: Srinivas Rao of the Unmistakable Creative
Episodes

PH040: Srinivas Rao of the Unmistakable Creative

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 1 min read
itunes new and noteworthy
Podcast Distribution

How To Get Into The iTunes New And Noteworthy Category

If you want your podcast to grow quickly (and honestly, who doesn’t?), you need to grab as much exposure as possible. Landing your show in iTunes’ New and Noteworthy category is a powerful way to put your show in front of countless listeners.  The New and Noteworthy category is a game-changer for new shows. It ... Read more

Dennis Hammer
Dennis Hammer · · 8 min read
Podcast Production

Audacity Alternatives For Podcast Editing

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

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 3 min read
Premium Podcast Subscriptions
Private Podcasting

Premium Podcast Subscriptions 101

While advertising is the most common way to monetize your podcast, it’s certainly not your only option. Financially successful podcasters squeeze every little bit of revenue out of their show by using multiple monetization techniques. One of the simplest ways to monetize a podcast is to sell what you’re good at: podcast content. By selling ... Read more

Dennis Hammer
Dennis Hammer · · 7 min read