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  • Welcome to Captivate Insider

    This is Captivate Insider, a weekly update on what's happening here at Captivate, where we're actively helping the serious independent podcast creator save time, grow their podcast and monetize their content.

    Join me your host, Garry, the Head of Design here at Captivate where I'll be chatting with our team to get a behind the scenes look at what goes into designing and developing our features, our views on what's happening in and around podcasting PLUS grab some tips on using Captivate along the way.

    A new show lands every Wednesday in your preferred podcast app and if you're not using Captivate to grow your podcast, head over to captivate.fm to try us out totally free for 7 days. Enjoy, and happy podcasting.

    1 min
  • A New Player FM Integration and a Login Screen Makeover!
    It's weekly update time! This time, there's a brand new integration in the Distribution dashboard! Plus, we've improved our login screen to improve your experience and help you to find useful information a whole lot quicker!
    Player FM Integration - You can now submit your podcast to Player FM straight from the https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/distribution (Captivate Distribution) page. https://www.captivate.fm/blog/a-new-player-fm-integration-and-a-login-screen-makeover/ (Head to the blog) to find out more about our new partner, its millions of active users and how to get listed on the platform.
    New Login Screen Makeover - She's here and she's gorgeous! We've given our login screen a polish for better user experience. You'll now be able to find useful and essential information a whole lot easier. Head to https://my.captivate.fm/login (the login screen) to check it out for yourself!
    As always, all relevant https://help.captivate.fm/en/ (help articles) have been updated.
    That's it for this week!
    6 min
  • Introducing... Captivate Sites™ 2.0: The Most Powerful Podcast Websites From ANY Hosting Platform
    Huge news! We’re proud to announce eight huge brand new upgrades to Captivate Sites™, making them the most powerful podcast websites from any hosting platform, included for free on every Captivate hosting plan.
    Every single Captivate podcast website now has even greater build features, flexibility, functionality and marketing potential so that your podcasters can grow their shows on their terms.
    Here's everything today's feature includes:
    Two new additional site layouts, totalling three fully responsive website templates.
    Customizable episode order settings - display most recent or oldest episodes first.
    Pin an episode to the top of the page - perfect for trailers!
    Customize team biographies at show level - extremely useful for teams managing multiple podcasts.
    Email opt-in forms - capture emails for newsletters straight from your podcast website! Choose from direct integration with AWeber or insert an HTML snippet from another provider (which we'll make look pretty). Customize the copy of every single element to suit your podcast's messaging.
    Lead magnets - Captivate Sites™ now supports in-built opt-ins, allowing you to manage your lead magnet fully within Captivate and your email provider. As with sign up forms, you can use AWeber or insert a HTML snippet from your chosen provider. If you choose to upload an image alongside your email opt-in, Captivate will make your opt-in layout look great automatically, too!
    Website search functions - we've added a search bar to the site's top navigation. Listeners will now be able to satisfy their own search quickly without having to crawl through the entire feed.
    Captivate Sites™ now uses the API to display episodes, instead of the RSS feed - podcast feeds will now auto-paginate and will populate as many episodes as it needs to fill the page, improving site speed.
    13 min
  • Welcome, Danny Brown and A Gerry Anderson Podcast!
    Well well well, we're back with more updates!
    This week has been largely a bug fixing week but we did do two things that might interest you, too...
    We integrated AdBarker prefix support directly into Captivate - thanks, Ryan Gray!
    We welcomed our brand new podcaster support expert to the support team. Welcome, Danny Brown! Danny has been a long-time Captivate user so if you're in our private Facebook community, I have no doubt that you'll know Danny already. Danny joins the team lead by Sam to continue to give our podcasters the very best podcasting experience, bar none!
    Hey also, we're thrilled to announce that we've been working with the Gerry Anderson network (creators of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett and so much more) on their stunning new show First Action Bureau which is an original, in-universe creation from Jamie Anderson and Nicholas Briggs and features an insane voice cast including Sacha Dawan, Nicola Walker and Patterson Joseph.
    ​https://www.firstactionbureau.com/listen (Check out the trailer for First Action Bureau, here).
    Last up, we're announcing the first keynote speaker for our private Ready, Set, Grow! podcast marketing event tomorrow, too!
    This exclusive to Rebel Base Media podcasters using Captivate, Podcast Websites and Podcast Success Academy (growth-tier).
    7 min
  • Jiosaavn Distribution Is Here!
    Hot on the heels of our Amazon Music & Gaana distribution partnerships, we're delighted to announce that from today all Captivate podcasters can submit their podcast to another of India's biggest streaming platforms, Jiosaavn!
    7 min
  • Role Management Overhaul & Some Analytics Preparation!
    Today we released a HUGE redesign of how Captivate's role management works, making it even easier to grant the right levels of access and create a custom setup that works perfectly for you and your team. You can now set very specific permissions for each show in your account, and for each person on your team.
    6 min

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Captivate is a podcast hosting, analytics and monetization platform dedicated to helping the serious independent podcaster to grow an influential audio brand.