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The 3 Clips Podcast Joining the Castos Team

Today we're excited to share that Castos has acquired the 3 Clips podcast, run by Jay Acunzo. Jay and the 3 Clips podcast are the epitome of what a great podcast embodies, and the show is focused squarely on the exact audience that Castos supports: Creators. The driving belief behind 3 Clips is that anyone ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 1 min read
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Updated Private Subscribers Dashboard

Today the entire Castos team is excited to share a big new update to the way that you can manage the Private Podcast subscribers in your Castos dashboard. Previously the addition and management of Private Subscribers was done in the podcast Settings -> Distribution tab. But we quickly realized that as Private Podcasting is such ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 2 min read
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Add Multiple Users To Your Castos Account

Today is a big day, a day in which we announce the rollout of a feature that many of you have been asking for: Multiple User Support. You can now invite your team to help manage your podcast and can add as many additional users to your Castos account as you'd like. Access For New ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 1 min read
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Customizing the Seriously Simple Podcasting Castos Player

For the recent 2.5.0 release of Seriously Simple Podcasting, we updated the Castos Player that was originally added to the plugin back in December of 2017. The original iteration of the player was included to give podcasters a customizable, great-looking HTML media player for their podcast sites. It was the same player we used on ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 4 min read
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Redesigned Castos Player in Seriously Simple Podcasting

This week we're excited to announce an update we've been waiting to share for a while: a completely reimagined podcast player built right into Seriously Simple Podcasting. You may have seen the new Castos Player on this site in the past few weeks, but as of release v2.5 the new Castos Player is available for ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 2 min read
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Product Release: New Elementor Integrations for Seriously Simple Podcasting

Today, we're excited to announce a brand new Elementor integration for our WordPress plugin, Seriously Simple Podcasting. We've repeated the importance of having a podcast website a fair amount and detailed exactly how you can build one of your own. Castos customers also already have access to customizable podcast pages to showcase a show and ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 6 min read
Private Podcasting

Powering Your Private Podcast with Zapier

Creating a private podcast offers new monetization opportunities for hobbyist and professional podcasters alike. Unlike selling sponsorships or promoting affiliate products, private podcasts generate income by offering listeners new access to you and your ideas. But private podcasts aren't run in a vacuum. Instead, the exclusive episodes are integrated with another tool, platform, or service ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 4 min read
Private Podcasting

Add Individual Subscribers To Your Private Podcast

Often when you're creating a podcast you want it to be open to anyone and everyone who wants to listen or subscribe. But sometimes you want to have a private podcast that's only intended for specific listeners. In these cases restricting access to who can subscribe to your show is important so that you can ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 2 min read
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Castos Player: The Best Embeddable Podcast Player

The podcast player for your show is maybe the single most important point of connection between your website visitors and your podcast. This is where and how they interact with your entire podcast brand, so it's important to use the best embeddable podcast player you can. And today we're excited to announce a major update ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 7 min read
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Introducing The New Castos Audio Player Block For Your WordPress Site

WordPress 5.0 (codenamed Bebo) was released back in December 2018. Its biggest addition was the introduction of the new Block Editor, Gutenberg, which changes the way we all build sites with WordPress. Castos embraced the Block Editor, even going so far as to rebuild our entire website using it. Today, we take that commitment to ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 1 min read
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Castos Productions: Affordable Podcast Editing From Your Dashboard

When we talk to our customers, podcast editing is often the most intimidating part of podcasting. It's technical, a more laborious process, and it's hard to know when you're done. With the importance of consistently publishing new episodes, there are a few podcast editing methods to choose from. Some some, purchasing podcast editing software and ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 12 min read
Seriously Simple Podcasting 2.0
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Seriously Simple Podcasting 2.0 Release

It's not every day an open source project releases an update which is indicated by a major version jump. Usually when this happens, it indicates that there are breaking changes on the horizon, and users should be aware, make a backup, and update with caution. Often however, a major version number change is simply the ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 3 min read