If having a custom site, custom domain and custom fonts isn’t custom enough, you can now add your own CSS to customize your Simplecast site even further. What’s a website without our favorite site for serving up custom fonts? Typekit integration is now available for creating unique site font choices. Now you can have more than one person managing a single account. Most of the podcasts on the Simplecast platform have more than one person involved. Now you can add sponsor logos and add links to whatever custom link they might provide. One of the best ways to support your podcast or audio blog is through sponsorship. Today, you can easily connect your site with your own custom domain name straight from your account. I’ve never had a project that didn’t need its own domain name separate from the platform. Now all you have to do is upload your audio file and choose one of the many themes inside of Simplecast. One of the biggest challenges to starting a podcast or audio blog is having to setup or create a website to support it. Jon has just pushed new updates that include: hosted custom sites, the ability to use custom domains, support for sponsors, multiple users per account, Typekit integration, the ability to use your own custom CSS and a new annual pricing tier. If you’d like to replace the favicon on your Simplecast hosted site with one of your choosing, you can now do just that! Simply upload a favicon image in your 'Website Settings’ and we’ll serve it up in 3 sizes.Įverything’s available right now. Once that’s done and approved, anytime a link to your site is tweeted, people will see a bit more information before they follow the link. Before they’re active though, you’ll still need to verify and request that your domain be approved. If you’re taking advantage of custom sites hosted through Simplecast, we now include all the necessary tags in your HTML to support Twitter Cards. If you stick with it, you’ll see a player like this: Additionally, you have the option to default to the older, simpler player if you’d like by changing the ‘Simplify Audio Player Controls’ setting in your 'Podcast Settings’. They’re automatically disabled on mobile devices as feature support is limited at best.
Hello podcasters! A few noteworthy Simplecast updates to let you all know about.ĭave Rupert recently made some great points about the need for a more podcast-specific audio player, and we agree, so we built it! Now, for any embedded Simplecast player, or for the player on your Simplecast website, you’ll see three new options: 30 second rewind, mute/unmute, and a 1x/1.5x/2x playback speed button. Check out his ShopTalk podcast if you have a chance. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to use TimeJump right now if you embed a Simplecast audio player into your own site.īig thanks to Dave for creating TimeJump. It’s also very handy for creating show notes that link to certain points in your episode. When the link is followed, TimeJump will fast-forward the episode to that point in time and start playing. If you’re the Reboot podcast, you would create a link like this: Happy New Year everyone! We’ve integrated Dave Rupert’s wonderful TimeJump library into Simplecast hosted sites, allowing you to create deep links to any point in time for a single episode.įor example, let’s say you’d like to create a link to the 10 minute 45 second point of an episode.
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