Audience
Join audio producer Stuart Barefoot as he goes behind the scenes of all different kinds of podcasts to uncover their creative process.
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New Automations Engine + ConvertKit support for podcasters
Castos’ private podcast automation makes it easier to make changes to subscriptions, engage with your audience, and make sure your content is secure. Today, Craig and Matt talk about Castos’ newest integrations and what it will mean for podcasters interested in private podcasting. The team is ecstatic about the ConvertKit integration which will allow podcasters ... Read more
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Let's put on a show
Why do I want to start a podcast? What should my podcast be about? What do I want to get out of podcasting? These are the questions we’re talking about today on Audience. Peter Link, CEO of Watchfire Music, joins us today, to talk about how to put on a good show. Peter goes over his ... Read more
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Craft Beer & Conversation: The Perfect Recipe for A Podcast w/ Joseph Bennecke
Today on the Audience podcast, Sam Chlebowski brings you the latest episode of the Castos Creator’s Spotlight series. In this series, Sam talks with content creators (just like you) about where they came from, where they’re going, and also their tips, tricks, and advice for new podcasters. In this episode, Sam is joined by Joseph ... Read more
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Ushering in a community for your podcast w/ Arielle Nissenblatt
On this episode of the Audience podcast, Matt talks with Arielle Nissenblatt about building a community around your podcast. There are so many great takeaways from this episode, from community engagement to building an audience, podcasting habits to monetization. Arielle lends her expertise in answering Matt’s questions about podcasting and Twitter. Arielle is a podcast ... Read more
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Nathan Gathright from Steno.fm talks podcasting
On this episode of the Audience podcast, Matt talks with podcast veteran Nathan Gathright about his latest venture: Steno.FM. The podcast 2.0 movement is bringing a lot of great things to podcasters and listeners. This also means transcripts. Descript is great for podcasters who need to work on their own podcasts, but what about listeners? ... Read more
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Behind The Scenes Of A Brand Redesign
Today is a big day at Castos. We reveal a new website, new logo, new color scheme, and new brand. In the spirit of transparency and showing what the creative process looks like for us as a company and as a Brand we talked with several of our team members about what they took away from the brand process.
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Thriving On Twitter with Bridget Willard
There aren't many more well understood growth channels for a brand's audience than social media. But like a lot of things when it comes to growing your brand, it's often not complicated, but it's hard. Twitter in particular is a favorite for brands (and let's face it, your podcast is a 'brand' whether you've admitted ... Read more
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Podcasting with Friends
On this episode of the Audience podcast, Stuart talks about a different type of podcast. While most of the Audience podcast episodes focus on podcasts and podcasters who want to glean financial value and brand awareness from their work, other podcasts originate from a group of friends hanging out. Today, Stuart focuses on a few ... Read more
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Starting a Conversation and Engaging Your Community with Chris Desmond
In this week’s episode of the Creator’s Spotlight series, Sam talks with Chris Desmond about how to start a conversation and engage with your podcasting community. Chris’ healthcare background easily transferred into a podcasting hobby. It has since morphed even more, changing from a hobby, to a mental health tool, to a resource for the ... Read more
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10 Ways to save time as a podcaster
Today’s episode is all about saving time as a podcaster, especially a solo podcaster. Running a podcast resembles running a small business more than you might have guessed...or hoped. As small business owners, you’re responsible for wearing many hats. If you’ve ever launched a business, you quickly found out that not only are you the ... Read more
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Podcast 2.0 apps + your new call to action
Today's episode is all about new podcast apps + podcast 2.0. It's a big topic, and a bleeding edge one for most of us, suffice to say this one episode wouldn't do the whole of it justice. However, if there's one thing I leave you with, it's that you're encouraged, as podcast creators, to go ... Read more
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Thoughts on using video to grow your podcast
In the last episode we talked about Tom Webster's approach to using YouTube for growing your podcast. A quick recap of that is: Use Youtube because it's a powerful search tool for topic heavy podcast episodes. Make your show more shareable; leverage something other than audio to do that. After shipping that episode, I felt ... Read more