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TL:DL -Those plans with 10,000 downloads now receive 12,000; those plans with 50,000 downloads now receive 60,000 and those plans with 120,000 downloads now enjoy 150,000 included each and every month.

This one is a bit of a boring one, sorry - it's "bug smashing" as much less cool companies would write.

It's weekly update time!!

This week we finished rolling out some major upgrades to your account area, making it super easy to switch plans, view your download allowances on a super sweet looking "progress" style bar and of course, viewing and downloading your invoices.

The biggest update is actually behind the scenes this week.

We've updated and tweaked our geo-location API for the statistics. At times over the last few weeks, our download stats have been a little slower to update in your dashboard that we'd like.

There's nothing wrong with this, as such, it was just due to the simple scaling safeguards we'd added. But, we weren't happy with that experience for you so we updated our geo-location API to allow for much faster processing of data and thus, quicker throughput to your dashboard.

On the surface, you'll just see your download analytics performing much more in "real-time" which is of course, awesome!

It's weekly update time!!

This week it's been a week or account updates, making sure that your billing and download quota is easy to view, manage and understand.

The biggest changes this week will actually be rolled out periodically over the next few days so that we can make sure each element is bulletproof.

Changes include:

A clear, concise download quota graphing system in your account.

Easy ability to view and download your Captivate invoices from your account section.

A clearer layout to show you which plan you're currently subscribed to.

An easier interface for updating your payment details.

We're also pushing out various small tweaks and features to Captivate Sync™, too but nothing overly interesting, it's all behind the scenes to keep the sync process nice and continually quick.

All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.

It's weekly update time and this week is a BIG one!!

Captivate Sync™, our WordPress podcasting plugin, is here!!

We've been building WordPress stuff for a long, long time. In fact, my (Mark) background is over ten years running a design, brand and digital agency that specialised in WordPress development.

So, when we moved into podcasting in 2014 with our first product, https://www.podcastwebsites.com/ (Podcast Websites), naturally that progressed to become the world's #1 hosted and managed WordPress service for podcasters - completely hassle-free, growth-focussed WordPress for you as an audio influencer.

When we began building Captivate, we knew that we wanted to fully support WordPress and continue what we had started with Podcast Websites.

And so today, we're delighted to release Captivate Sync™, the easiest way to podcast using WordPress, featuring:

Automatic sync between your Captivate podcast hosting account and your WordPress site.

Simple, multi-show management direct from WordPress.

Publishing and managing of episodes right there in WordPress.

Full, automated use of the stunning Captivate podcast player including calls to action, simple subscribe links and full device compatibility.

Powerful sharing options that help drive traffic to your podcast's website.

Integration with self-hosted WordPress and the Podcast Websites hosted and managed WordPress platform.

Captivate Sync™ works beautifully with WordPress, giving you a quick, solid way to podcast via a well thought out custom post type structure and full control over episode links and more.

And hey, this is only version 1 of the plugin, you just know there's more to come ;)

Control and own your podcasting brand.

Related: https://help.captivate.fm/en/articles/2678708-getting-started-with-captivate-sync (How to get started with Captivate Sync™)

All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.

Today, we talk about the first part of our deep integration strategy to make podcasting stress free for everyone, starting with our integration with Alitu, the podcast maker!

It's weekly update time!! As always, we've worked hard to listen to what you'd love to see in Captivate and have put together the latest release as follows...

Simpler website pagination - this week's update is a website focussed update with the first upgrade being to the pagination system on your Captivate generated podcast website. We've made it so that each page featured five episodes and now loads even quicker, whoop!

Simple 302 redirects - boring alert - we've made it easy for you to redirect your podcast website to WordPress or similar when you change from using a Captivate website to something else. This means that all the links to your Captivate site will redirect to the new website for if you decide to use WordPress and Captivate Sync™, for example.

All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.

It's weekly update time!! As always, we've worked hard to listen to what you'd love to see in Captivate and have put together the latest release as follows...

Podcast import assistant just got smarter! - sometimes your old host will have it set that your show must only display, for example, 150 episodes in your feed. We have made sure that Captivate checks your episode numbers and that if we detect that your show has published more episodes than are in your feed, we let you know to change that setting in your old host before importing. It's the little things, right?

Intermittent Safari dropdown bug - in certain circumstances, specific dropdowns wouldn't behave properly due to a small bug in Safari. This is now fixed. Cheers Cody!

Episode level cover art updates - every now and then, if you don't have a podcast cover art set in your show settings as you ramp up to launch, you'd have a problem uploading episode level cover art. That's all sorted, now.

Smarter CMYK checks on cover art - uploading the wrong type of podcast cover art can result in your show being rejected by Apple et al. No one wants that, so we've made our cover art sanity checker even more useful by making sure that if you upload your file in the CMYK colorspace, we'll let you know.

Embeddable player animation tweaks - the player animation is now a little more intelligent when it comes to the status of your audio (playing or non-playing) and will perform as you'd expect when you pause the player.

All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.

It's weekly update time!! As always, we've worked hard to listen to what you'd love to see in Captivate and have put together the latest release covering CDN updates, speed of uploads and more.

It's weekly update time!! As always, we've worked hard to listen to what you'd love to see in Captivate and have put together the latest release as follows...

New player branding options! - a big thanks to many of the networks and agencies who use Captivate for their podcasts, we've made it super-easy to decide how much Captivate love you show on your embedded player - you can choose from our full branding, subtle branding that just shows the Captivate icon or no Captivate branding at all. The first two options let you link to your affiliate account, remember!

Responsive player preview update - you can now preview the podcast player in your Captivate dashboard on device sizes down to iPad portrait. Thanks, Olivier!

Artwork speed updates - importing podcast cover art for each episode is now even quicker on import for podcasters who use episode-level artwork.

Bio text alignment on Captivate Sites - left-aligned your host bio on your Captivate powered website. Much prettier :)

All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.