It’s hard to believe that we’ve already hit our 50th episode, but it’s here and a lot of that is thanks to you, our amazing community who keep listening, subscribing, and intereacting with us across social media, email, and our Discord.



For this milestone episode, we thought you may like a bit of an insight into how each episode of the show reaches you after we record and edit it. 



We reached out to Craig Hewitt the founder of Castos, our hosting provider for the podcast, and he kindly agreed to come and chat to us about what podcast hosting is, why good quality hosting is important, as well as looking at some of the challenges of distributing podcasts across so many platforms.



Are you a podcaster yourself, or maybe you’d like to learn more about Castos, or maybe you’ve had some fun stories with podcast hosting over the years. Whatever your experience, we’d love to hear from you, so please send a note over to [email protected], leave a comment on the post, or join the discussion over on our Discord server



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Episode Links




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Craig Hewitt on LinkedIn



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Castos Blog



Castos Academy



Castos Pricing



Audience – Castos Original Podcast



Dynamo by Castos – Free podcast artwork generator




Chapter Times




00:00:01: Podcast Recommendation: Art Heals All Wounds



00:00:34: Introductions



00:06:28: What Is Podcast Hosting?



00:11:21: Self-Hosted vs Paid Hosting



00:16:51: Seriously Simple Podcasting WordPress Plugin



00:19:51: The Importance of Support



00:22:09: The Unexpected RSS Feed Impact



00:29:45: Analytics



00:37:40: Pricing & What You Get



00:43:57: Automatic Transscription



00:46:08: Democratisation of Podcasts



00:48:43: AFFILIATE PROMO: Backblaze



00:50:46: Importing a Podcast



00:53:25: Free Tools for Podcasters



00:54:58: Private Podcasting



01:01:09: Wrapping Up



01:09:14: PODCAST TRAILER: Art Heals All Wounds




Credits




Intro and outro theme: Ace of Clubs by RoccoW



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