Podcast Home Page

The podcast home page is your landing page for your listeners to view episode announcements, messages, episodes, and links to where to find your podcast. If you have only one podcast, your users will be automatically redirected from your top level domain, such as www.yourpodcast.com, to the podcast page at www.yourpodcast.com/yourpodcasthandle.

If you are hosting multiple podcasts, your top level page will display the artwork for each podcast. Clicking on the podcast artwork will take you to your podcast page at www.yourpodcast.com/yourpodcasthandle.

Home Page

If you are logged in to your podcast, you will see a strip across the top of the page with a link to the admin interface of your podcast, a bell that will show if you have any new notifications, and the user who is logged in. You can click on the user for quick access to your account, changing your password, or to log out.

Note

If you have multiple podcasts, you can click the user dropdown to switch to choose which podcast to interact with. If your account has access to two or more podcasts, pay attention to which podcast is broadcasting messages!

Listeners can click the Follow button to follow any messages, including episode announcements, from a Fediverse app, such as Mastodon. After clicking Follow a pop-up box will be displayed where the user enterse their Fediverse handle and then clicks Proceed to follow.

Podcast RSS feed

On the right hand side is a link to your RSS Podcast feed. Users can copy that and subscribe directly in their podcast app.

Social Networks

Below the RSS feed is are icons that link to all of the social networks you toggled on in the Broadcast section of the podcast’s admin section.

Podcast Directories

Below the social networking links is Listen On which displays icons linked to the podcast directories you toggled on in the Broadcast section of the podcast’s admin section.

Activity

The Activity tab is located directly under your podcast artwork is the default home page for your podcast. Website visitors are presented with a list of messages in chronological order. If you are logged in as a podcast administrator, you will see a text box where you can write a message to be broadcasted to your followers. If you include the episode URL, a preview of that episode will be included in your message.

Below each message there are four icons:

• Comments: This will show you the number of comments on a given message. Clicking this will show you all replies to your message. You can click the three dots to block a user or a domain in case of spam.
• Shares: This shows the number of times your message was shared by other users.
• Favorites: This shows how many people liked your message.

Episodes

The Episodes tab shows a list of all episode announcements you have shared. If you are using season numbers, it will default to the current season. Users can click the Season link above all of the messages for a dropdown menu to view past episodes by season.

About

The About tab shares general information about your podcast, including:

• Podcast description
• Podcast category
• The people who contribute to the podcast
• Statistics
  • Number of seasons
  • Number of episodes
  • Date first episode was published