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Open-source hosting software, and managed podcast hosting
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Open-source hosting software, and managed podcast hosting
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May 28, 2024:
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Further Reading: Norma-Jean Belenkey from Podbean writes her takeaways from The Podcast Show ... Castopod’s Benjamin Bellamy wrote a piece about podcasting to create, distribute and interact (and there’s video of a talk on that page, too)
May 3, 2024:
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OP3’s John Spurlock is interviewed by Castopod. The tool gives public, comparable data about podcasts - here’s data from some of the shows using it, and here is data for our daily podcast. It’s free; Podnews is a monthly financial supporter (and you, big podcast company, should be too).
February 13, 2024:
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Castopod explains some of the technical aspects of podcast measurement, and highlights OP3 as a potential solution.
January 26, 2024:
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Whisper is a free download for the more technically advanced which will produce automated transcripts for you to edit further: open podcast platform Castopod wrote a blog post on how to install it. There are a number of free VTT editor programs online.
January 22, 2024:
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Transcription software Whisper.cpp was updated to v1.5.4 two weeks ago. (Here’s how to get it on your Mac).
January 15, 2024:
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Podcast hosting company Castopod has added “the Castopod Index”, a listing of shows hosted on the platform to aid discovery. The full index is here.
May 3, 2023:
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Ad Aures has launched a new podcast hosting solution on Castopod.com for those who don't wish to host their own server. The open-source Castopod remains freely available.
March 6, 2023:
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Adam Curry and Dave Jones were interviewed for a French edition of Podcast Magazine. Here's the article in English.
January 4, 2023:
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They're not alone - hosted on Castopod, Les Poésies d’Héloïse supports both webmonetization and Lightning. If that works for them, it works for us, too - so, Podnews Daily also now supports both, too. Our website has supported webmonetization since November 2020.
December 12, 2022:
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Podlove, podCloud and Castopod have joined Transistor in supporting OP3, the open analytics service.
November 14, 2022:
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Castopod shares a presentation from Benjamin Bellamy and Yassine Doghri on Web Monetization, an alternative to cryptocurrency for micropayments.
January 24, 2022:
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Exclusive: The free and open-source podcast solution for you to self-host, Castopod has reached v1.0, and now has a website of its own. The podcast platform includes open comments, video clips, anonymised analytics, and wide support for the new podcast namespace. It's available for download today.
December 6, 2021:
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PodLP is enabling transcripts shortly within its app, and has posted a demo. The
podcast:transcript tag is supported by podcast hosts like Buzzsprout, Captivate, Castopod, Fireside FM and others.
August 2, 2021:
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Want to host all your shows for just $3/month? Benjamin Bellamy successfully tested Castopod on the OVHcloud platform.
February 12, 2021:
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Castopod, free podcast host software, now supports the new 'person' tag.
October 26, 2020:
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Castopod, an open-source podcast hosting platform, now supports the locking tag (both for import and publish). The service now also uses OPAWG's RSS useragents list to enhance analytics. Funded by the NGI0 Discovery Fund by NLnet, you can grab the source and download it today.