Craig Hewitt

I kind of got into podcasting a roundabout way and kind of the business side of it.

And yeah, it's been just over three years since I've been running Castos and it's been a lot of fun.

Very cool.

Okay, so for folks that have not heard of it, what does Castos do?

Yeah, so we're a podcast hosting and analytics provider that also has a built-in production service.

So for shows like this, for folks who want to kind of host their podcast, distribute it to places like Apple Podcasts and Spotify, that's what we do, provide analytics around that, and then have kind of a done-for-you service arm that takes care of all the editing and show notes and publishing.

So we're kind of your built-in podcast producer.

So you get hosting and analytics.

So we host your audio files, help you manage RSS feed, which is kind of the thing that podcasts are.

And then we give analytics about, you know, where folks are listening and how many downloads your shows get.

Yeah, at its core.

We've done a lot to expand.

No, because I think that's the easy analogy.

But I think what we've done is expand the idea of that a lot.

So we have things to repurpose and extend the content that you create.

So we have things like automated transcriptions.

We have automatic republishing of your content to YouTube.

So for folks who aren't recording video like this,

They just want to do audio because they don't want to get all pretty for the camera and stuff like that.

We can give them a way to have a presence on YouTube where they don't have to record native video content.