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GDPR Related Product Updates
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GDPR Related Product Updates

Today, May 25, 2018, the European Union is enacting the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, which is a sweeping reform aimed at ensuring that EU citizens personally identifiable data are being managed properly by all businesses. When it comes to podcasting there isn't a whole lot of Personally Identifiable Information that is collected.  As you ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 4 min read
[Updates] A Brand New Castos Analytics
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[Updates] A Brand New Castos Analytics

For the past few months our development team here at Castos has been working tirelessly on bringing you better, more accurate, and more in-depth analytics for your podcasts.  And today we're excited to announce the release of the freshly updated Castos Analytics. The overarching theme of this update to Castos Analytics is to bring you ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 4 min read
[Updates] Player Shortcode and File Uploading
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[Updates] Player Shortcode and File Uploading

Today the Castos team released several new updates to both our Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin as well as to the Castos hosting platform. Both of these give our users more robust functionality to both platforms as well as resolution to an edge case that we've seen a few times previously. Also included are two GiHub ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 3 min read
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Introducing Castos

What makes Castos podcast hosting different than the rest?  Well, we're glad you asked... Playback Analytics Podcast analytics are tough. Believe us, we just spent the last 6 months building an analytics platform that really makes a difference. Sure we can show you how many people listened to an episode, and what type of device ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 3 min read
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New Seriously Simple Podcasting Features

In the last 12 months our team has been hard at work creating a better podcasting tool for all of our users.  We very much hope that has reflected in the functionality and support of the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin that we all enjoy. And today we're taking another big step in that direction, with ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 3 min read
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iOS 11 Podcast Tags And What They Mean For Your Show

Earlier this year at Apple’s WWDC annual conference, they announced some awesome new features coming for podcasters.  In iOS 11, there will be some new tags and features that many of us have been begging for.  Fortunately, Apple listened by creating new iOS tags to improve the listening and content creation experiences. All of the ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 6 min read
Version 1.17: New Podcast Upload and Playlist Parameters
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Version 1.17: New Podcast Upload and Playlist Parameters

Today the Seriously Simple Podcasting team is excited to announce the release of Version 1.17. This is our second major release in the last 4 months, and as with the previous one this brings with it some really exciting additions and changes to the way we help you manage your podcast. Here’s a few highlights ... Read more

Craig Hewitt
Craig Hewitt · · 15 min read