Podcast homepages weren’t one thing I gave any thought to till I launched my very own standalone present. And actually, even then I in all probability didn’t give sufficient thought to the topic. For that motive, many or most of my reveals have Tumblr pages – which is, at greatest, a little bit of a blended blessing in 2020.
The largest motive many podcasters give little consideration to the topic is the truth that most individuals are platform-dependent in relation to listening. Individuals who eat plenty of podcasts typically achieve this by way of a single platform/app, be it Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, Castbox, and so on. However in relation to really selling your present on social media, you’re greatest served by sharing a hyperlink that’s platform agnostic.
I’ve been enjoying round with Podpage a bit right now. The brand new providing was created by Brenden Mulligan, cofounder of app developer toolbox LaunchKit, which bought its instruments to Google means again in 2016. The providing has been round for some time now, however Mulligan has provided some updates and lately listed it on ProductHunt.
I’m digging it up to now. It’s mainly plug-and-play to stand up and operating, although you possibly can customise a good bit past that. For reference, a easy web page I made this morning for my podcast, RiYL:
After a few hours, I’m fairly severely contemplating dropping the long-standing Tumblr in favor of the service. My web page is fairly easy up to now, and actually, that’s by design. Or, reasonably, partially by design and partially attributable to the truth that I haven’t been superb about updating episode artwork, which has sort of restricted my choices right here (maybe I’ll undergo the 400+ episodes on some future wet day).
You begin by coming into your podcast title, and the service goes to work, scraping the related info and constructing it right into a web page. From there, you possibly can add a Patreon (or different methodology for monetization) and all associated social media. One of many good issues about having a purpose-built service like that is the way it pulls collectively the entire related info right into a single spot. The sidebar includes a breakdown of the totally different podcatchers the place you possibly can hearken to the present, coupled with a signup type to get present updates.
On the underside are a collection of opinions from totally different podcasting companies. Up prime is a hyperlink to the companies the place you possibly can go away that suggestions. There’s additionally a subscription hyperlink and make contact with type, which is a useful means of permitting folks to electronic mail you with out giving out private info. Notes submitted to the shape can be despatched to your related electronic mail.
The essential expertise is free and there are at present two improve choices. At $5 a month, you possibly can host it by yourself web site and for $12, there are a bunch extra customization choices, together with a extra fully-featured web site, together with weblog performance and the flexibility so as to add transcripts.