Q: How to Create a Beautiful Website for Your Podcast With Captivate: Part 5 - Email Opt-In

With your <a href="https://help.captivate.fm/en/articles/4449993-how-to-create-a-beautiful-website-for-your-podcast-with-captivate-part-1-basic-settings">Basic Settings</a>, <a href="https://help.captivate.fm/en/articles/4450494-how-to-create-a-beautiful-website-for-your-podcast-with-captivate-part-2-header">Header</a>, and <a href="https://help.captivate.fm/en/articles/4460767-how-to-create-a-beautiful-website-for-your-podcast-with-captivate-part-3-team">Team</a> area under your belt, now it's time to get into one of our most-requested features - using email marketing directly from your Captivate Site! With our Email Opt-In feature, we're making it super easy for you to grow subscribers for your newsletter, where you can start offering exclusive content just for subscribers! When set up, your email sign up form and image (if you wish to use one) are displayed on your Captivate Site. You can connect directly with AWeber and Mailchimp to make creating your form super easy, with more due soon. You can also grab email form code from your existing provider, meaning you can use our email marketing feature no matter who you use! Let's dig in! <h2 id="connectingwithaweber">Connecting with AWeber</h2> If you're a current <a href="https://www.aweber.com/excellence.htm?medium=affiliate">AWeber</a> user, you can connect pretty seamlessly through your Captivate dashboard. First, head on over to the Promotions section in your dashboard, and click on the Integrations tab. Click on the Connect AWeber button. This will open up the AWeber authorization

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How to Create a Beautiful Website for Your Podcast With Captivate: Part 5 - Email Opt-In

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With your Basic Settings, Header, and Team area under your belt, now it's time to get into one of our most-requested features - using email marketing directly from your Captivate Site!

With our Email Opt-In feature, we're making it super easy for you to grow subscribers for your newsletter, where you can start offering exclusive content just for subscribers! When set up, your email sign up form and image (if you wish to use one) are displayed on your Captivate Site.

You can connect directly with AWeber and Mailchimp to make creating your form super easy, with more due soon. You can also grab email form code from your existing provider, meaning you can use our email marketing feature no matter who you use!

Let's dig in!

Connecting with AWeber

If you're a current AWeber user, you can connect pretty seamlessly through your Captivate dashboard.

First, head on over to the Promotions section in your dashboard, and click on the Integrations tab.

Click on the Connect AWeber button. This will open up the AWeber authorization

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How to Create and Use a Network Feed

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With Captivate’s Network feature, podcasters can take advantage of having multiple shows and creating their own podcast network, no matter what plan you’re on. This has helped thousands of independent podcasters take advantage of features normally reserved for enterprise-level podcasters or large networks.

Now we’re taking that one step further with the Network Feed! By creating a network-level feed for your podcasts, you can submit the network to podcast apps, or share it with advertising partners, etc.

Additionally, any podcast on your network feed will automatically have new episodes published to your feed.

Creating your Network Feed

Creating your network feed is super easy, and can be done directly from your Captivate dashboard (you’ll need to have created a Network before this step).

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How to Create a Beautiful Website for Your Podcast With Captivate: Part 1 - Basic Settings

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We all know how important it is to make it easy for listeners to actually listen to your podcast. After all, not everyone likes having yet more apps on their phone.

That's why we created Captivate Sites - to offer a simple, easy, and beautiful way to promote your show as well as grow your listeners.

Every Captivate customer gets a free website and all the cool features that comes with it, including email sign-up forms, custom domains, Google Analytics, and more.

The best part? Setting up your Captivate Website is super easy!

This tutorial covers your Captivate Sites' basic settings, where you'll choose the layout, colour scheme and episode settings for your website.

Setting Up Your Captivate Website

When you're logged in to your Captivate dashboard, click on Captivate Sites in the left hand navigation menu. This will open up the Captivate Sites settings.

Make sure the toggle is switched to On, which will open up the various design options, and then click Save Changes.

The first thing you'll notice are the six options available to you for customizing your site. Each option gives you the ability to customize your site, and choose what features your listeners will see. Let's start with Basic Settings.

Basic Settings

You'll see that here you can choose from the following:

Site layout
Domain configuration
Website colors
Episode display order

We've made it

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How to Turn YouTube Playlists into Podcasts

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When YouTube announced they were finally bringing podcasts to YouTube, it was the news many podcasters had been waiting for. Best of all, YouTube are making it super simple for podcasters to get started by using existing (or new) playlists.

While this update isn’t the full-on podcasting experience (YouTube aren’t ingesting RSS feeds just yet), it’s a great starting point to get new eyes on your content, whether that’s a “proper” YouTube video or a static image with your episode audio.

Here’s how to turn your playlists into podcasts on YouTube!

log into YouTube Studio
click on Content
click on Playlists
hover over the playlist you want to convert and click on the three little dots
click Set As Podcast
change the title and description (optional, you can leave as is) and upload a square image for your artwork (you can use your podcast artwork, or create a new one)
click Done

And that’s it! Your YouTube playlists are now podcasts, and

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How to add and manage podcast guests

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Managing your podcast guests and information is nice and easy from your Captivate dashboard.

Here's how!

To add a podcast guest:

Log in to your Captivate dashboard.
Click Guests from the left hand menu under the Guest Bookings section.
Click Add a Guest.
Complete the guest details.
When you have made all your changes click Create Guest.

To add or amend podcast guest details:

Log in to your Captivate dashboard.
Click Guests from the left hand menu under the Guest Booking section.
Click the Edit Guest icon on the guest you want to update details for.
Amend or add additional guest details and then click Update Guest.

To delete a podcast guest:

Log in to your Captivate dashboard.
Click Guests from the left hand menu under the Guest Booking section.
Click the Delete icon on the guest you want to delete.
A new window will display asking you to confirm you want to proceed, click Delete Guest.

Note: You will be unable to delete a podcast guest if there is a booking associated with them.

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