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Craig Hewitt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

So we've done a lot with the platform to do that to be more than just a hosting platform, but really kind of like a marketing platform for podcasts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Yeah, so we have plans starting at $19 a month all the way up to $100 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And we have annual plans for like 20% discount off that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Would you say the average is probably around the $19, $20 mark?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Yeah, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Yeah, most folks are on the beginner plan because a lot of folks, you know, podcast is for a lot of people is not a revenue generating thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

So they have a hard time paying too much for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Yeah, so we feature gate a lot of what we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

So things like the YouTube republishing, automated transcriptions, an integration with a tool called Headliner to create audiograms, and some advanced analytics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

The last part really gets up into that higher tier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

I think analytics, as you probably know, is something that podcasters are hungry for more of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And we have some proprietary analytics that we provide folks in our pro tier at the $100 a month plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And when did you launch the company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Uh, we took a small amount of investment and joined the tiny seed accelerator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

And about just over a year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

So we were part of the first batch there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

So we got a little bit of money there, but otherwise have been bootstrapped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Um, so I mean, you know, being in the podcasting space, we're not, you know, a CRM where we're going to be around forever and we think we could be around forever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

You know, there's just a ton of kind of velocity in the podcasting space these days.