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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. Every week we’ll be chatting to the team to get an insight into designing and developing our features, what we’re building next, our views on what’s happening in the podcasting industry PLUS giving you some tips on making the most of Captivate along the way. Enjoy and happy podcasting.

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Building a Dynamic Content Engine for Podcasting - AMIE, Part Three

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01/19/22 • 32 min

Hello and welcome to episode 3 as we cap off our series dedicated to AMIE, our dynamic content engine, and chat once again with our co-founder and MD of Captivate Mark to find out his favourite part of the process, some tips on getting started with AMIE and a look to the future of monetisation within the industry.

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.

01/19/22 • 32 min

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Important CDN Update and What Happened with Speed This Week

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10/08/19 • 9 min

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... Brand new "system status" area - we'd planned this for Q4 2019 but accelerated its development in light of the StackPath challenge below. We now have a complete and comprehensive system status area for Captivate's entire infrastructure. This has its own page right here at https://status.captivate.fm and system status will also show within the live chat support section at the bottom-right of Captivate's dashboard. Whoop! Extra layer of object storage added - our CDN provider, StackPath, had an issue with its object storage node on the US East Coast. The object storage nodes are used to store your audio files before they get to the CDN when requested by a podcast player, plus they store other items such as podcast cover art - this issue with StackPath meant that uploads were sporadically failing and that audio sometimes couldn't be quickly played back because the CDN couldn't grab the audio file every time from the object storage system. StackPath is mega-reliable but just like any tech company, they do have some issues now and then - luckily, this is very very rare. We added an extra object storage redundancy layer which means that if StackPath ever has issues again, uploads will instantly switch to our secondary storage option seamlessly and automatically with no impact on upload or download speed. Bottom line: the issues that you may have experienced this week won't happen again. Thanks for bearing with us :) Apple Podcasts URL format change in Captivate's marketing section - in some instances, we were spotting that some Apple URLs weren't validating correctly within the marketing section of your Captivate dashboard. As it happens... Apple has a couple of different URL formats so we added extra validation for them. Awww yeah. All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.

10/08/19 • 9 min

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Saving You Time and Improving Your Content Delivery With Our New Research & Planning Tools

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03/16/22 • 36 min

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We recently announced at our first Upfront live stream some great features and two of those were Episode Planning and Research Links. I've grabbed our MD, Mark, to dive deeper into this and look at some approaches to content planning, examples and tips on how to use these features in your workflow and some wider-industry chat about conferences and meetups.

Captivate's inaugural Upfront event.

03/16/22 • 36 min

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The Pros and Cons of Video Podcasting and Should You Adopt It for Your Podcast?

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05/04/22 • 37 min

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This week I've dragged our MD, Mark Asquith, back on to get his thoughts on Video Podcasts. With the recent announcement of Spotify's Achor adding video into their process the industry is talking about video as part of podcast content but should you look to adding this medium to your content strategy?

05/04/22 • 37 min

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Your Podcast Analytics, In Your Timezone!

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03/25/20 • 6 min

Today we're pushing out a release that will display your podcast download analytics in your own timezone, as set in your show settings. This means that you can view data in a time local to you rather than the standard UTC timezone, plus the timezone will also carry through to CSV exports and the one-click sponsor kit generation. Set within your show settings, the timezone already controls the default publishing time and is always set at show level, not user level.

03/25/20 • 6 min

Error checking and support updates

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03/17/20 • 7 min

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... Error checking upgrades: There are so many times where we need to give you a pointer or a heads-up about something you're doing on Captivate so this week we've gone through many of our error messages around podcast artwork, player settings and more to make those errors even more descriptive and useful to you. Boring, we know but important, too! Admin tools for our team: We have a lot of background admin tools that our team uses to help you out via support. This week we added a couple more around imagery and social sharing that you won't see, but that you'll experience thanks to our support being even faster! New private Facebook group: We love working with you and our community. We wanted a way to bring all of our Rebel Base Media paying podcasters together into a safe community to discuss anything that you need at all. So, separate from our public-facing community, we just created the private https://www.facebook.com/groups/rebelbasemedia/ (Rebel Base Media Podcaster Support & Experience Facebook group) - make sure you're a part of it!

03/17/20 • 7 min

Brand New Podcast Analytics Features!

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04/21/20 • 8 min

With a new episode deep-dive view, publish date overlays and city/region breakdowns across your entire show or on an episode-by-episode basis, your Captivate podcast analytics just got a serious power boost! Pierre, one of our resident Captivate engineers, an all-round nice guy and owner of the biggest hair in lockdown has been working exceptionally hard with the engineering team on crafting some sweet podcast analytics upgrades for Captivate podcasters that we’ve released today! Here’s a quick rundown of what the team has done: Deep-dive episode view: You can now dive-deep into the trends for each podcast episode that you release by filtering your entire analytics data on an episode-by-episode basis. Ooooof! Overlay download data with release days: What happens when you release an episode? BOOM! Downloads! Right? Well, usually yeah but sometimes peaks and troughs occur where you absolutely would not expect them. So, click the new shiny little box to overlay your podcast release dates on to your podcast download data to start to learn about some of the trends that your show experiences. Pro tip: try “singe day” view with this turned on and choose a date when you published something. Break your download data down into state, region, city/town level: Available at show or individual episode level, you can now view the states/regions and city/town that your show gets downloaded in. Cool, right? Add percentages to all the data you’d like to see as a percentage: Data geek? Just like the shape of a percentage sign? We’ve added percentages to every reasonable piece of data that you’d want to see a percentage next to. You’ll see percentages in grey next to the core data where available. If you do just like the shape of a percentage sign, here’s a little something for you: %%%%%%%%%%. Of course, all of these updates are free to every single Captivate podcaster 😄 Some charity work Hey also, we’ve been HUGE fans of what Podchaser has been doing to help Meals on Wheels America’s COVID-19 charity efforts by donating 25c to the charity for each review left on the platform. We’ve decided to contribute by matching every single review left over on Podchaser for a Captivate hosted podcast and will match the donations up to $750 in total. You gotta do your bit, right? YouTube channel launch! Podcast advice is usually complicated, full of jargon or given by people who have been podcasting for about an hour. So, we decided to do something about that by launching our straight-talking, no BS YouTube channel to help you cut through the podcast education noise. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2vieKYEYty3e8GvosN378A (Subscribe to the Rebel Base Media YouTube channel! )

04/21/20 • 8 min

SEO Friendly Single Episode Pages with Captivate Sites

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02/27/20 • 7 min

It's weekly update time!! As always, we've worked hard to listen to what you'd love to see in Captivate and we've just added one of the most requested features by podcasters using Captivate sites to generate their stunning podcast website - single episode pages :) We had to take our time with this so that we could make sure to get Captivate SyncTM (our WordPress plugin) perfectly set, first. But, now that is all done we've been able to bring you the single episode pages that you've been asking for, plus customisable SEO titles, descriptions & URLs and auto-generated social images. Whoop!! All relevant help articles have been updated to reflect these changes.

02/27/20 • 7 min

Web page URL convenience updates and a little Anchor thing

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03/31/20 • 8 min

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... Speed up cache flushing on the embeddable player after editing an episode, show or player style: When you edit an episode title or content, Captivate will now clear the cache for that specific episode on the web player. Also, when you update your player style it will clear all cached episodes from the player too, so that you can see the changes much quicker. Quick view episode web pages from the episode sharing screen: We added a nice little "View" button next to the "Copy" button within the episode sharing screen that will open the episode web page URL in a shiny new tab for you to quickly take a peek. URL preview on publishing an episode: When using Captivate SyncTM or Captivate Sites for your podcast website, you will now see a preview of the full URL that will be created for any given episode within the episode publishing or editing screen. Lovely job. Anchor import issue: When importing an RSS feed from Anchor and when the podcaster has the dynamic ad system setup on Anchor, Anchor splits files and rejoins them, making them an M4A with a mime-type of MP4 instead of MP3. This causes import problems. Well, it did. Not anymore :) Live Q&A over in the Facebook Group: Come and join us, on Wednesday 1st April, 5pm UK, 12pm Eastern, 9am Pacific, over in our exclusive https://www.facebook.com/groups/rebelbasemedia/ (Rebel Base Media Podcaster Support & Experience Facebook group), where Mark and the team will be answering all of your podcasting questions. Sweet!

03/31/20 • 8 min

Export analytics to CSV for Excel or Google Sheets!

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03/06/20 • 5 min

It's weekly update time!! As always, we've worked hard to listen to what you'd love to see in Captivate and we've just added one of the most requested features by podcasters using Captivate sites to generate their stunning podcast website - single episode pages 🙂 We had to take our time with this so that we could make sure to get Captivate SyncTM (our WordPress plugin) perfectly set, first. But, now that is all done we've been able to bring you the single episode pages that you've been asking for, plus customisable SEO titles, descriptions & URLs and auto-generated social images. Whoop!!

03/06/20 • 5 min

FAQ

How many episodes does Captivate Insider have?

Captivate Insider currently has 81 episodes available.

What topics does Captivate Insider cover?

The podcast is about News, Tech News, Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on Captivate Insider?

The episode title 'Building a Dynamic Content Engine for Podcasting - AMIE, Part Three' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Captivate Insider?

The average episode length on Captivate Insider is 19 minutes.

How often are episodes of Captivate Insider released?

Episodes of Captivate Insider are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Captivate Insider?

The first episode of Captivate Insider was released on Sep 24, 2019.

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