Your Podcast Analytics, In Your Timezone!

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.

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Error checking and support updates

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!

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Web page URL convenience updates and a little Anchor thing

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 Sync™ 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!