It continues to amazes me how many podcast episodes are linked to the hosting platform they currently use. Instead of an episode page on their own website, which I have to dig for with web search.

Podcasters, like anyone else publishing their work online, need to build their castle in their own kingdom. Register a domain name, host a website, and have a page for each episode. Make sure listeners clicking through to a website from a podcast app end up there.

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It was an absolute honour to speak about Channel.org, growing the open social web, sport and whole lot of @fediforum on @decentered last week!

If you haven't checked it out already, you can catch the latest episode on the link below or wherever you get your podcasts 🤠

Huge thanks to @hello for having me!

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/fediforum-june-2025-recap/

#Podcast#Podcasting#SocialMedia#Decentered#Mastodon#Fediverse#FediForum

@stephen
> my expectation is that RNZ has a page with a synopsis for each show

A perfectly reasonable expectation, and one it used to meet.

But at least I can still link to an RNZ page for a podcast episode. A lot of podcasts only seem to have pages on a corporate podcast host like ACast, which can disappear if they change host. They don't seem to have got the memo about building your castle in your own kingdom;

https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-castle-in-other-peoples-kingdoms/

#podcasting