[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"help-content":3},{"success":4,"categories":5},true,[6,47,80,225,294,363,600,645,670,715],{"slug":7,"title":8,"lead":9,"entries":10},"getting-started","Getting started","How Podspun works and how to connect your show from YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or an RSS feed. No setup, no manual uploads: connect a source and Podspun imports, transcribes, and indexes every episode.",[11,15,19,23,27,31,35,39,43],{"slug":12,"question":13,"answerHtml":14},"how-does-podspun-work","How does Podspun work?","\u003Cp>Podspun pulls in your podcast episodes from YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or your RSS feed and creates a clean, searchable home for your show. It imports your transcripts and layers in AI so your audience can find what they are looking for, down to the exact moment you said it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Podspun also generates summaries, highlights, quote cards, badges, and analytics for each episode, making your content easier to explore.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":16,"question":17,"answerHtml":18},"import-tiktok-instagram","Can I import a TikTok or Instagram account?","\u003Cp>Yes. On \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Channels\u003C\u002Fa>, choose Add a channel, pick TikTok or Instagram, and paste the profile's address or @handle. The instant website builder takes the same links: paste a TikTok or Instagram profile there and it builds a site from the account's posts. The account must be public. Podspun imports every post: videos get a transcript (TikTok captions are used when the video has them; otherwise the audio is transcribed), photo posts index their written caption, and each post gets AI analysis, topics, and a pull quote.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Keyword and AI search cover your posts the same way they cover episodes. Social Feed shows the latest posts, and Social Explorer adds topic browsing and search. Live Portrait finds subjects, people, and moments across every channel included on the site and its published news. New posts sync in automatically each day.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Episodes, videos, and posts share one included pool of 800 items. Above that combined total, additional items are $1.50 per 100, charged when you add the channel and then monthly.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":20,"question":21,"answerHtml":22},"different-from-a-normal-podcast-website","How is Podspun different from a normal podcast website?","\u003Cp>A normal site lists episodes and plays audio. Podspun transcribes every episode and indexes every word, so visitors search what was actually said and ask an AI that answers from your catalog. A website is one optional output of that index: Podspun can also run as just the engine, with your catalog surfacing on podspun.com or through the Data API.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And unlike a general builder like Squarespace or WordPress, Podspun is made for creators: your whole catalog, transcripts, search, and clips arrive already built in, instead of a blank site you fill in.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":24,"question":25,"answerHtml":26},"do-i-need-to-do-any-setup","Do I need to do any setup?","\u003Cp>No. Connect a source (your YouTube channel via Google sign-in, or an Apple Podcasts or RSS feed URL) and Podspun handles the rest.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":28,"question":29,"answerHtml":30},"do-i-upload-episodes-manually","Do I need to manually upload my episodes?","\u003Cp>No. Once you connect a source, Podspun automatically imports your episodes from YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or your RSS feed.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":32,"question":33,"answerHtml":34},"podcast-not-on-youtube","Can I use Podspun if my podcast isn't on YouTube?","\u003Cp>Yes. Besides YouTube, you can connect any show by pasting its Apple Podcasts URL or a direct RSS feed URL. You do not need to be on YouTube to use Podspun.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":36,"question":37,"answerHtml":38},"more-than-one-podcast","Can I use Podspun for more than one podcast?","\u003Cp>Yes. Your account can link multiple shows, across any mix of YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or RSS. Whether you host one show or five, Podspun keeps them organized and easy to explore.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":40,"question":41,"answerHtml":42},"how-do-i-connect-my-podcast","How do I connect or add my podcast?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Podspun Dataweaver\u003C\u002Fa> in your account and click Add channel. Connect your YouTube channel with Google sign-in, or paste an Apple Podcasts or RSS feed URL. Podspun imports and transcribes your episodes automatically and keeps syncing nightly.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":44,"question":45,"answerHtml":46},"how-long-does-connecting-take","What happens when I connect a show, and how long does it take?","\u003Cp>You paste a YouTube channel, an Apple Podcasts show, or an RSS feed. Podspun pulls every episode, transcribes the audio, and indexes the words. A small catalog is ready in minutes. A large back catalog runs in the background over hours, and you can watch progress while it fills in.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":48,"title":49,"lead":50,"entries":51},"pricing","Pricing and plans","What Podspun costs: the $29.00\u002Fmonth base plan with 800 catalog items included across every channel, what a large archive really costs, and what websites and API keys add.",[52,56,60,64,68,72,76],{"slug":53,"question":54,"answerHtml":55},"what-does-podspun-cost","What does Podspun cost?","\u003Cp>The base plan is $29.00\u002Fmonth and includes unlimited channels with up to 800 total items covered: import, transcription, indexing, and AI. Episodes, videos, and social posts all use the same pool. Past 800 combined items, it is $1.50 per 100, charged when you add the channel and then monthly to keep the catalog indexed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Podspun Website is $49.00\u002Fmonth all in. Additional websites are $20.00\u002Fmonth each. Each Data API key is $39.00\u002Fmonth. Enterprise is available by contacting the team.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":57,"question":58,"answerHtml":59},"what-do-the-add-ons-cost","What do the add-ons cost?","\u003Cp>Each is optional and rides on your one monthly bill. Extra websites are $20.00\u002Fmonth each and Data API keys are $39.00\u002Fmonth each. Custom JavaScript on a site is $19.00\u002Fmonth per site.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Clips: your first 3 each month are free, then $20.00 buys a pack of 25. Thumbnails: suggested titles and episode-frame previews are free, and AI-generated images or exact frame pulls get 5 free a month, then $5.00 for a pack of 10. Email is free for your first 100 subscribed contacts, then $9.00\u002Fmonth up to 500, stepping up as your list grows. AI searches on your sites include 5,000 free a month, then $10.00 per extra 1,000.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":61,"question":62,"answerHtml":63},"are-ai-searches-limited","Are the AI searches on my site limited?","\u003Cp>Your account includes 5,000 AI searches each month across your sites, which covers most shows comfortably. Past that, extra searches are $10.00 per 1,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You choose what happens at the limit in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fbilling\">Billing\u003C\u002Fa>: Keep answering (extras are added to your bill) or Stop at the limit (the ask-a-question box pauses until the month resets). Keyword search is always unlimited and free.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A visitor can ask a follow-up question under any answer, and the answer engine remembers what was already asked. A follow-up is a full question, so it counts the same as the first one. Start over empties the conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":65,"question":66,"answerHtml":67},"how-the-monthly-bill-works","How does the monthly bill work?","\u003Cp>You keep a card on file and Podspun charges one bill a month on your billing day. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fbilling\">Billing\u003C\u002Fa> shows the full breakdown before it happens: the base plan, episodes over 800, websites, API keys, and any add-ons you used, plus any coupon. Past charges and receipts live under Billing history.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You can add a backup card, redeem a coupon, and cancel or resume the plan on the same page. Canceling stops the monthly charge; your shows stay where they already live on YouTube, Apple, or your RSS host.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":69,"question":70,"answerHtml":71},"episode-limit","Is there a limit to how many episodes I can upload?","\u003Cp>For $29.00\u002Fmonth you get unlimited channels and up to 800 total items included across podcasts, video, Instagram, and TikTok. Go over that combined total and it is $1.50 for every additional 100 items. You can also contact us for Enterprise.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":73,"question":74,"answerHtml":75},"large-back-catalog-cost","What does a 3,000-episode back catalog really cost?","\u003Cp>The first 800 items across all your channels are covered by the $29.00\u002Fmonth base plan. The other 2,200 are $1.50 per 100, about $33.00: charged when you add that channel, then about $33.00 every month after that to keep them indexed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So the recurring bill is the $29.00 base plus that catalog overage, plus any websites or API keys you turn on.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":77,"question":78,"answerHtml":79},"what-do-social-posts-cost","What do TikTok and Instagram posts cost?","\u003Cp>Posts, videos, and episodes share the same included 800 on the $29.00\u002Fmonth base plan. Once your combined total goes past that, every additional 100 items costs $1.50, charged when you add the account and then monthly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So a 500-post Instagram account next to a 200-episode podcast fits inside the included 800 and adds nothing to the bill. The add-account preview shows the exact cost for your account before you approve it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":81,"title":82,"lead":83,"entries":84},"your-website","Your website","The website Podspun builds for you from your episodes: how the builder works, editing and drafts, custom domains, and how your pages rank in Google and get cited by AI answer engines.",[85,89,93,97,101,105,109,113,117,121,125,129,133,137,141,145,149,153,157,161,165,169,173,177,181,185,189,193,197,201,205,209,213,217,221],{"slug":86,"question":87,"answerHtml":88},"do-i-build-the-website-myself","Do I have to build the website myself?","\u003Cp>No. Podspun builds the site for you from your episodes, on your own domain, and keeps it current as you publish. It is a finished website with episode pages, transcripts, clips, and search already in place, not a blank page you fill in. You pick a theme and colors and adjust what you want, and the rest is done for you.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":90,"question":91,"answerHtml":92},"what-is-the-website-builder","What is the website builder?","\u003Cp>It is your own website, made from the episodes you already publish and hosted on your own domain. It is made for creators, so you build here instead of Squarespace or WordPress. Choose from themes and color palettes, set your logo and fonts, and Podspun assembles episode pages, all your episodes, search, and clips for you. As you publish new episodes, the site updates on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":94,"question":95,"answerHtml":96},"site-time-zone","What time zone are the dates on my website in?","\u003Cp>Whichever one you choose. Open \u003Cstrong>Settings\u003C\u002Fstrong> in your website editor and pick your \u003Cstrong>Time Zone\u003C\u002Fstrong> under the tagline; it starts on Pacific. Every date on your site is written in that zone: article dates, episode dates, the dates on cards and highlights, and the dates in this editor's lists.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It matters most for scheduling. Set an article to publish at 5pm and it goes live at 5pm in your zone, and the date readers see is the date it was your evening, not the next morning somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":98,"question":99,"answerHtml":100},"two-shows-on-one-website","Can one website show two of my shows together?","\u003Cp>Yes. If your site includes more than one show, every content block has a show setting in its editor. Leave it on \u003Cstrong>All shows (mixed)\u003C\u002Fstrong> and the block blends both feeds: episode lists, topics, highlights, quotes, and games draw from every show on the site. Pick a specific show instead and that block sticks to it. You can mix per block, so a shared homepage and single-show sections live on the same site.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Mixed lists label each episode card with its show, the banner shows the combined episode count with a link to each show's own page, and search gets a Choose Shows picker so visitors can search everything or one show at a time.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":102,"question":103,"answerHtml":104},"show-social-posts-on-my-website","How do I show my TikTok and Instagram posts on my website?","\u003Cp>Use the Podspun Dataweaver blocks in the website builder. \u003Cstrong>Social Feed\u003C\u002Fstrong> shows the latest posts from one account as a strip or grid. \u003Cstrong>Social Explorer\u003C\u002Fstrong> shows the whole social catalog with topics, filters, sorting, and search inside the words said in the posts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Live Portrait\u003C\u002Fstrong> reads every channel included on the site together with its published news. It shows recurring subjects, recent changes, people, time periods, and topics found in more than one source. Each finding links to the episode, post, or article behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Social tiles open the post on the current page, playing from Podspun's own archive, with a link to TikTok or Instagram for liking and commenting. Nothing is embedded from the platforms.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":106,"question":107,"answerHtml":108},"what-does-a-portrait-page-show","What does a Live Portrait page show?","\u003Cp>Live Portrait reads every channel included on the site together with its published news. It finds recurring subjects, recent changes, people, time periods, moments, and topics found in more than one source.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Each finding links to the episode, social post, or article behind it. Visitors can ask questions across the connected channels. The page updates as new material is imported and analyzed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>New sites built from TikTok or Instagram include Live Portrait. To add one elsewhere, choose Live Portrait in the Podspun Dataweaver section of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">website editor\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":110,"question":111,"answerHtml":112},"different-from-squarespace-or-wordpress","How is this different from Squarespace or WordPress?","\u003Cp>Squarespace and WordPress are general website builders. You start from a blank site and add every episode, transcript, and clip by hand, and there are no podcast tools in the box. Podspun is made for creators: connect your channels once and it arrives with your whole catalog, transcripts, search, and clips already in it. You keep full design control and your own domain, and the approach is a two-time Webby honoree.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":114,"question":115,"answerHtml":116},"rank-in-google-and-ai-answers","Can I rank in Google and get cited by AI answer engines?","\u003Cp>That is the goal. Podspun builds your episode pages with clean structure and the structured data that search engines and AI answer engines read, so your show can rank in Google and get quoted by tools like ChatGPT and AI Overviews. Because every word is transcribed and indexed, there is real, searchable text on every page for them to pull from.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":118,"question":119,"answerHtml":120},"hand-edits-and-sync","Can I hand-edit pages, or does a sync overwrite my work?","\u003Cp>You can edit any page with blocks, draft changes, and roll back revisions. Lock specific items and a sync leaves them alone, so your edits survive. You can also exclude episodes you don't want surfaced.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":122,"question":123,"answerHtml":124},"duplicate-content","If content lives on podspun.com and my own site, will Google call it duplicate?","\u003Cp>You pick which surfaces you use: podspun.com, your own domain, the Data API, or any mix. Your custom site runs on your domain with its own canonical setup, so it stands on its own. If you only want your own site indexed, you don't have to surface the same pages on podspun.com.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":126,"question":127,"answerHtml":128},"am-i-stuck-with-a-template","Am I stuck with a template, or can I control how it looks?","\u003Cp>Pages are block-based with structural themes and color and font palettes. You control layout, what stays public (whole-site password or a coming-soon state), and your own domain over Cloudflare SSL. It is your site to shape.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":130,"question":131,"answerHtml":132},"change-the-search-loader","Can I change the loading animation on search?","\u003Cp>Yes. In your site's CMS open Theme, then Advanced, then Loader. That is the little animation that plays while an AI search is working. Pick Default (a podcast microphone that suits any show), True Crime (a fingerprint under a scan beam), or Retro (an old TV tuning through static). Whichever you choose is drawn in your accent color automatically, so it always matches your theme.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":134,"question":135,"answerHtml":136},"build-before-going-live","Can I build my site before going live?","\u003Cp>Yes. Quick Start builds a full draft as an unpublished preview you can edit before paying: your episodes on the site, a theme matched to your art, real copy written from your show and website, and draft News articles. The preview link works during its build window and is kept out of search engines. It cannot serve on a live domain, collect visitors, or publish until you add a payment method and turn it on. Turning it on starts Podspun Website at $49.00\u002Fmonth all in, transcribes and indexes your catalog, and switches on transcripts and search. Everything you edited in the preview stays exactly as you left it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":138,"question":139,"answerHtml":140},"password-or-coming-soon","Can I hide my site behind a password or a coming soon page?","\u003Cp>Yes. In your site's CMS, open Setup and then Visibility. Who can see this site switches between Public and Password protected, and a Coming soon toggle hides all content behind a simple placeholder while you work. You write the heading and message for both screens, and the password can be generated and copied right there.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Your own preview link always bypasses the gate, so you can review the real site while visitors see the placeholder.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":142,"question":143,"answerHtml":144},"share-a-draft-for-review","Can someone review my draft without logging in?","\u003Cp>Yes. In the page editor, open the version menu and choose Share a draft. It creates a review link that works for seven days without a login, so a co-host or client can see exactly what the draft looks like on the real site. They see the draft only; the live page stays as it is until you publish.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":146,"question":147,"answerHtml":148},"undo-a-published-change","Can I undo a change after publishing?","\u003Cp>Yes. Every publish keeps the previous version. In the page editor, open the version menu to see Recent revisions and roll back to any of them, or View all revisions for the full history. A draft you have not published yet can simply be discarded.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":150,"question":151,"answerHtml":152},"google-analytics-and-cookies","Can I use Google Analytics on my site?","\u003Cp>Yes. In your site's CMS, open Setup and then Integrations and paste your Google Analytics measurement ID (it looks like G-XXXXXXX). Turn on the cookie consent banner in the same place and Analytics only loads after a visitor clicks Accept, so the setup stays compliant out of the box.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The banner has two buttons, Accept and Decline, and it remembers the choice for a year so it does not nag on every visit. Decline means Analytics never loads. A Cookie Preferences link is added to the footer so a visitor can change their mind later, which reopens the banner. Your podcast video embeds already use YouTube's no-cookie player, and Podspun's own visitor insights are cookieless, so Analytics is the only thing the banner needs to gate.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":154,"question":155,"answerHtml":156},"custom-javascript-and-css","Can I add custom JavaScript or CSS to my site?","\u003Cp>Yes, as an add-on. In your site's CMS, open Setup and then Custom Code to add your own scripts and styles. It is $19.00\u002Fmonth per site, added to your monthly bill.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":158,"question":159,"answerHtml":160},"crop-images-and-focal-point","How do I crop an image or control how it is framed?","\u003Cp>Open the image in your site's Assets (or from any image picker) and use the editor. Crop trims the image, free-form or to a fixed shape like square or 16:9, and can save the result as a new file. Focal point lets you drag a marker to the part of the image that matters, and Podspun keeps that point in view wherever the image fills a box, like a hero banner.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":162,"question":163,"answerHtml":164},"edit-site-menus","How do I edit my site's menus?","\u003Cp>In your site's CMS, open Menus. Header is the navigation at the top of every page, Footer is the link list at the bottom, and Social is your profile links. Add, reorder, and nest items with drag and drop; each item links to a page, an outside URL, or a file through the link picker.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":166,"question":167,"answerHtml":168},"publish-news-or-blog-articles","Can I publish news or blog articles?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open a site in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa>, then choose Entries and News. Each post gets its own page, an author, a publish date (set it in the future to schedule), and optional categories and tags. Each post also chooses who can read it (everyone, members, or paid subscribers). Add the News block to any page to list your latest posts automatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every article has a Type. News is the standard feed; the + New Type button above the article list adds another (Press, for example), and picking a type there writes posts of that type. A News block on your site lists one type (News unless you change it in the block's settings), so a new type stays off your pages until you place a block for it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":170,"question":171,"answerHtml":172},"feature-an-episode-in-an-article","How do I feature an episode inside an article or page?","\u003Cp>Add the Episode Link block, in the Podspun Dataweaver Integration section of the block picker. Start typing an episode title and pick it from the list: the block shows that episode's image, big, with a play badge and a "Watch the Episode" label, linked to the episode's page on your site. You can change the label in the block's settings.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Articles written from an episode (the Write From an Episode button and auto-drafts) include this block automatically, so every generated article features the episode it came from.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":174,"question":175,"answerHtml":176},"promo-block","How do I promote my store or Patreon on a page?","\u003Cp>Add the Promo block, in the Common section of the block picker. It puts pictures on one side (up to four, each with an optional caption like a product name and price) and your pitch on the other: a heading, a line of text, and a button. The button can point at a page on your site or an outside site like your merch store or Patreon.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":178,"question":179,"answerHtml":180},"photo-behind-a-section","Can I put a photo behind a section of a page?","\u003Cp>Yes. In the page editor, open a block's Config tab and choose a photo under Photo behind this block. A scrim (a wash over the photo) keeps the text on top readable: darken the photo for white text, or lighten it for dark text, and set the strength with the slider. The hero block's backgrounds use the same scrim control.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":182,"question":183,"answerHtml":184},"full-bleed-and-full-screen-blocks","Can a block stretch edge to edge, or fill the whole screen?","\u003Cp>Yes, and any block can do it. In the page editor, open a block's Config tab. Turn on Full Bleed to stretch the block edge to edge across the whole window, past the page margins (the block needs to be full width). Turn on Fill the screen and center to make it at least one full screen tall with its content centered. Both work together, which is how a big opening section is usually built.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":186,"question":187,"answerHtml":188},"announcement-bar","How do I show an announcement across the top of my site?","\u003Cp>In your site's CMS, open Menus, then Header, then the Settings tab, and find Announcement bar. Turn it on, write a short message (a new season, a live show, a sale), and optionally add a link so people can act on it. The message shows in a colored band across the very top of every page until you turn it off.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":190,"question":191,"answerHtml":192},"wonder-search","What is Ask & Search?","\u003Cp>Ask & Search is the search on your website, trained on every word in every episode and post you have published. It is one box with a switch over it. Ask a question and you get an answer drawn from your own posts, with a link to each one it used. Switch to Find a word and you land on the exact moment a phrase was said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It runs on your site's Search page, at the end of your Live Portrait, and anywhere you place a Search block in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa>. The example chips under the box are yours to set in your site's CMS under Settings, in the Search tab.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":194,"question":195,"answerHtml":196},"search-example-chips","Can I choose the example chips on my Search page?","\u003Cp>Yes. In your site's CMS, open Settings, then the Search tab. Two lists live there: up to six example chips for the Find a word side, and up to three example questions for the Ask a question side. The chips change with the switch, and a visitor who clicks one runs that search or asks that question. Leave a list empty and the site fills it with your own most common topics, read from your real posts.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":198,"question":199,"answerHtml":200},"social-section-defaults","Where do I control the social sections, like the Monthly Quiz?","\u003Cp>In your site's CMS, open Settings, then the Social tab. It holds the defaults for the TikTok and Instagram side of your site; turning Monthly Quiz off hides every Monthly Quiz section across the site at once. The same tab sets the two figures at the top of your posts page, each chosen from a list: your top topic, posts in the last seven days, the week before that, your total, this year's posts, how many topics you cover, your latest post, the year you started, the split between Instagram and TikTok, your busiest month, a typical month, or nothing at all. Anything that cannot be worked out from your posts is left off the page rather than shown as a zero. The most-viewed post panel above the wall has its own switch there too. With several channels, Quizzes & Games' Automation Config tab also offers One Combined Quiz: one set shown site-wide, its questions drawn from every channel's current quiz. The Channels tab next to it governs only show channels (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, RSS feeds), and how each social channel plays its videos is set per channel in Dataweaver.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":202,"question":203,"answerHtml":204},"filter-posts-by-whats-in-the-picture","Can visitors filter my posts by what is in the picture?","\u003Cp>Yes. Every post's cover is read when it is imported, and the posts page offers an \"In the picture\" filter built from what was found: with people, posed for camera, landscapes, cities, food, animals, indoors, memes and screenshots, and posters and graphics.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A filter only appears once at least three posts match it, so a visitor never presses one and finds nothing. Nothing needs setting up: covers are read automatically as posts arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":206,"question":207,"answerHtml":208},"linking-to-your-own-pages","If I rename a page, do the links to it break?","\u003Cp>No. When you link a word to one of your own pages, pick the page from the list rather than typing an address. The link remembers the page itself, so renaming that page later moves every link with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To make one, select the words and choose Link. To change or remove one you already made, right-click it: the menu shows where it currently goes, and offers changing it, removing the link while keeping the words, or opening it in a new tab. Links to other people's sites open in a new tab on their own, so you never have to think about it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":210,"question":211,"answerHtml":212},"live-portrait-sections","Can I turn individual Live Portrait sections on or off?","\u003Cp>Yes. In your site's CMS, open Settings, then the Live Portrait tab. Each section of the page has its own on\u002Foff switch: the most recent topic, repeated topics, the posting burst, the three doors into the archive, people mentioned, and the closing archive grid. A section switched off disappears from the page the next time it rebuilds.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":214,"question":215,"answerHtml":216},"redirect-old-addresses","Can I forward old web addresses to new pages?","\u003Cp>Yes. In your site's CMS, open Setup, then Redirects. Add the old address (the part after your domain, like \u002Fabout-the-show) and pick where it should send people. Anyone who visits the old address lands on the page you chose instead of a \"page not found\" screen. Useful when a page moves, or when this site replaces an older website whose links are still out there.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Each redirect has a Type of move. Permanent (the default) tells search engines the page moved for good and hands its ranking to the new one, which is what you want almost every time. Temporary is for a short detour: it sends visitors along but keeps the old address in search results, so use it only when the old page is coming back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To move a whole section at once, end the old address with a star, like \u002Fold-blog\u002F*, which catches that address and everything under it. End the destination with a star too (like \u002Fblog\u002F*) to keep the rest of each address, so \u002Fold-blog\u002F2020\u002Fmy-post lands on \u002Fblog\u002F2020\u002Fmy-post.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":218,"question":219,"answerHtml":220},"llms-txt-and-agents-json","Does my site tell AI assistants what is on it?","\u003Cp>Yes, automatically. Every Podspun site publishes two standard files that AI assistants and answer engines read: llms.txt, a plain guide to your shows, pages, and latest episodes, and agents.json, a machine-readable summary that points them to your full catalog and on-site search. There is nothing to set up; both stay current as you publish.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":222,"question":223,"answerHtml":224},"css-class-names-for-blocks","How do I write my own CSS for a block?","\u003Cp>Every block on your pages carries class names that do not change, so a rule you write today keeps working. \u003Ccode>.pspun-block\u003C\u002Fcode> matches any block. \u003Ccode>.pspun-block--media\u003C\u002Fcode> matches a picture, \u003Ccode>.pspun-block--prose\u003C\u002Fcode> a piece of writing, and so on: the pattern is \u003Ccode>.pspun-block--\u003C\u002Fcode> followed by the block's name in lower case. A Container is \u003Ccode>.pspun-container\u003C\u002Fcode>, and the blocks inside one carry their own names as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Write the rules in \u003Ca href=\"\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">your website's\u003C\u002Fa> Code section, under Custom CSS. They load after the theme, so they win.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":226,"title":227,"lead":228,"entries":229},"artists","Artists and artwork","How the artist account type, artwork archive, public Works pages, professional records, private viewing rooms, certificates, imports, and exports work.",[230,234,238,242,246,250,254,258,262,266,270,274,278,282,286,290],{"slug":231,"question":232,"answerHtml":233},"can-artists-use-podspun","Can artists use Podspun?","\u003Cp>Yes. Choose Artist or Both when you create an account, or change Account type under \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Faccounts\">Accounts\u003C\u002Fa>. Artist mode adds the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\">Art Studio\u003C\u002Fa>: an artwork archive connected to your Podspun website, plus collections, viewing rooms, contacts, sales, invoices, income, locations, exhibitions, a schedule, and reports. It keeps every creator feature, including social imports, newsletters, contacts, payments, the store, analytics, and the website builder.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":235,"question":236,"answerHtml":237},"how-does-the-artwork-archive-work","How does the artwork archive work?","\u003Cp>Open the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fpieces\">Art Studio’s Pieces section\u003C\u002Fa> and add each artwork once. The record holds the catalog details, images, availability, price, location, condition, valuation, provenance, exhibition and publication history, acquisition, sale, consignment, loan, rights, and private notes. Drafts stay private. Published records build the website's Works page, series pages, Available Works page, and individual artwork pages automatically.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":239,"question":240,"answerHtml":241},"are-location-and-notes-public","Are artwork locations and private notes shown on my website?","\u003Cp>No. Current Location and Private Notes are inventory fields for you and your team. Public pages only use the artwork's title, year, medium, dimensions, description, series, images, availability, and the price setting you chose.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":243,"question":244,"answerHtml":245},"import-an-existing-artwork-archive","Can I import an existing artwork archive?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fimport\">Art Studio’s Import section\u003C\u002Fa>. Upload a CSV, a ZIP containing a CSV and its images, or an image-only ZIP; a CSV exported from Artwork Archive is recognized too. Podspun proposes records first so you can review and edit them before saving. It matches existing works by inventory number, or by title and year when there is no inventory number. New records stay draft unless you explicitly publish them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That covers the artworks themselves. Your collectors, sales, income, locations and exhibitions are separate exports in Artwork Archive and come across through Import your records, on the same screen.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":247,"question":248,"answerHtml":249},"import-collectors-sales-and-locations-from-artwork-archive","Can I bring my collectors, sales and locations over from Artwork Archive?","\u003Cp>Yes. Artwork Archive keeps a separate export for each part of your studio, so your pieces are only one of six files. Open the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fimport\">Art Studio’s Import section\u003C\u002Fa> and choose Import your records, then hand over the export files together or the ZIP they came in.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It brings across your collectors with their company, phone and postal address, your sales with the date, price, commission and fees and who bought the work, your income and expenses, the galleries, museums and storage your work sits in, and your exhibitions. Each sale stays attached to the piece it was for and the person who bought it. Nothing is saved until you approve the summary.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Import your pieces first, on the CSV or ZIP option above it. Anything that names a piece you have not imported yet is reported rather than saved wrong, and attaches itself when you run the import again.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":251,"question":252,"answerHtml":253},"get-the-export-files-out-of-artwork-archive","How do I get my export files out of Artwork Archive?","\u003Cp>Every section of Artwork Archive has its own Export to CSV: Contacts, Sales, Income, Locations and Exhibitions each carry a button on their own page, and your pieces come from Pieces, then Bulk Actions, then Export to CSV.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Artwork Archive does not hand you the file straight away. It builds each one and puts it under Reports\u002FDocs, in Reports, named for the section it came from. Download them there, then upload them to Podspun together.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You do need to be signed in to your own Artwork Archive account to export, which is the point: the export carries the private records that your public profile page never shows.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":255,"question":256,"answerHtml":257},"private-viewing-rooms","How do private viewing rooms work?","\u003Cp>In the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Frooms\">Art Studio’s Viewing Rooms section\u003C\u002Fa>, choose any published or draft artworks. Add an introduction and a note for each work, decide whether to show price and availability, and optionally set an expiration date. Activating the room creates a signed private link. Replacing the link invalidates the old one immediately. Viewing rooms are kept out of search engines.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":259,"question":260,"answerHtml":261},"artwork-certificates-and-pdfs","Can Podspun make certificates and presentation PDFs?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open an artwork record and choose Certificate PDF to download a certificate with the work's image, catalog details, certificate number, issue date, and signature line. A viewing room downloads as a presentation PDF, an invoice as an invoice PDF, and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Freports\">Reports section\u003C\u002Fa> builds inventory, available works, and consignment PDFs.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":263,"question":264,"answerHtml":265},"export-artwork-archive","Can I export my artwork archive?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Freports\">Art Studio’s Reports section\u003C\u002Fa> and download the Archive Spreadsheet. The export includes the catalog, public, archive, provenance, exhibition, publication, and image fields in a spreadsheet-ready file. Reports also builds an inventory PDF, an available works PDF, and a consignment report.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":267,"question":268,"answerHtml":269},"link-artwork-to-store","Can an artwork page link to a product in my store?","\u003Cp>Yes. In the artwork's Availability section, choose a Store Product. When both records are active, the public artwork page shows a Buy this work button that opens the linked product. Available works can also link to your published Contact page for inquiries.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":271,"question":272,"answerHtml":273},"import-from-artwork-archive","Can Podspun import my Artwork Archive account?","\u003Cp>Yes, two ways. The most complete is Artwork Archive's own CSV export, which carries private fields a public page never shows: in Artwork Archive, open Pieces, choose Bulk Actions, then Export to CSV. The file appears under Reports\u002FDocs, in Reports, as “Piece Export (CSV)”; download it there, then upload it in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fimport\">Art Studio’s Import section\u003C\u002Fa>, where its column names are recognized. The second way: paste the address of a public Artwork Archive profile and Podspun reads its pieces, details, and images for you to review before anything saves. A password-protected profile cannot be read that way.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":275,"question":276,"answerHtml":277},"art-collections-and-series","How do collections and series work?","\u003Cp>A collection groups works: a series, a year, or an art fair, and one work can be in several. Manage them in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fcollections\">Collections\u003C\u002Fa> and check works into them from the Pieces editor. A collection shown on the site becomes its works’ public series label and series page, and its description appears on that page. A collection kept off the site is a private grouping.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":279,"question":280,"answerHtml":281},"record-art-sales","How do I record a sale of an artwork?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fsales\">Sales\u003C\u002Fa> and choose Record a sale, or use the Record Sale link on the work in Pieces. Choose the work, the buyer, the price, and any fees or commission. Recording it marks the work sold, fills its sale summary, writes the change into its history, and the revenue appears in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fincome\">Income\u003C\u002Fa>. Donations and gifts record the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":283,"question":284,"answerHtml":285},"art-invoices","Can I invoice a client for artwork?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Finvoices\">Invoices\u003C\u002Fa> and build the invoice from archive works or free lines like framing and shipping. Each invoice gets the next number in your sequence, a tax percentage if you charge one, a due date, and a PDF you can send. Mark it paid when the money arrives.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":287,"question":288,"answerHtml":289},"art-contacts-and-mailing-list","How do Art Studio contacts relate to my mailing list?","\u003Cp>The Art Studio’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fcontacts\">Contacts\u003C\u002Fa> are your collectors, galleries, and clients, with their purchase history, private notes, and tags. When a studio contact’s email address matches someone on your mailing list, the two link automatically and the row shows their subscription standing. The editor can also add a new person to the mailing list, which makes them a contact in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa> too.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":291,"question":292,"answerHtml":293},"art-locations-and-exhibitions","How do I track where work is and which shows it was in?","\u003Cp>Add places in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Flocations\">Locations\u003C\u002Fa> (your studio, galleries, fairs, storage) and link each work to its current location from the Pieces editor; every move is written into the work’s history. Add shows in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fexhibitions\">Exhibitions\u003C\u002Fa> with their dates and which works were in them. Submission deadlines, invoice due dates, consignment and loan return dates, and your own reminders all land on the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fart\u002Fschedule\">Schedule\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":295,"title":296,"lead":297,"entries":298},"clips-search-and-ai","Clips, search and AI","The clip generator, the Podspun Dataweaver, word-level search, episode insights, the built-in AI assistant your audience can ask, and the Data API.",[299,303,307,311,315,319,323,327,331,335,339,343,347,351,355,359],{"slug":300,"question":301,"answerHtml":302},"what-is-the-clip-generator","What is the clip generator?","\u003Cp>Any moment in any episode becomes a captioned, branded clip in about two clicks, with no video editor and no second subscription. Video shows get video clips, audio-only shows get audiograms, and you can also export plain audio. Open an episode, pick the moment, and Podspun makes the clip with your branding ready to share.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":304,"question":305,"answerHtml":306},"what-is-the-podspun-dataweaver","What is the Podspun Dataweaver?","\u003Cp>The Dataweaver is the engine behind Podspun. It imports your episodes, transcribes them, indexes every spoken word, and runs search, clips, and AI over your whole catalog. It works automatically: as you publish, the Dataweaver pulls in each new episode and keeps your site, search, and clips current with no manual step.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":308,"question":309,"answerHtml":310},"what-can-my-audience-do","What can my audience do on my Podspun site?","\u003Cp>They can search for any word or phrase and instantly jump to the exact moments where you said it. There is also an AI assistant built in, so they can ask questions and get answers straight from your content. Plus, they can browse auto-generated highlights, download or share quote cards, filter episodes by tags or length, and explore summaries and analytics.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":312,"question":313,"answerHtml":314},"filter-and-explore","Can my audience filter or explore content?","\u003Cp>Yes. Visitors can browse episodes by title, date, length, or tags, and explore auto-generated summaries, insights, highlights, and badges.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":316,"question":317,"answerHtml":318},"spotlighting-best-moments","How does Podspun spotlight the best of my episodes?","\u003Cp>Podspun surfaces key moments, creates quote cards you can share or download, and adds badges and tags to each episode. Every highlight, quote card, and key moment links straight to its timestamp, so fans can easily find and share your best moments.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":320,"question":321,"answerHtml":322},"episode-insights","What kind of insights does Podspun generate for my episodes?","\u003Cp>Each episode gets auto-generated summaries, key moments with timestamps, smart tags, and analytics like words-per-minute, grade level, and listening ease. You also get a simple channel-level overview so you and your audience can understand your content at a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":324,"question":325,"answerHtml":326},"how-accurate-is-the-ai","How does the AI answer, and how accurate is it?","\u003Cp>It answers from your transcribed catalog, not the open web, so replies come from what was said in your episodes. Accuracy tracks transcript quality and how clearly a topic was discussed. It points back to the episodes it drew from, so a listener can check the source.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":328,"question":329,"answerHtml":330},"clip-formats-and-styles","What formats and shapes can clips have?","\u003Cp>Three outputs: a video clip cut from the YouTube video (YouTube shows), an audiogram (your audio with an animated waveform), or plain audio as an mp3. Four shapes: vertical 9:16 for Reels, Stories, TikTok, and Shorts; portrait 4:5 for Instagram and Facebook feeds; square 1:1 for feed posts; landscape 16:9 for YouTube and X.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>You can burn in captions in three styles (Clean, Bold, or Highlight with karaoke-style word boxes), place your show's logo anywhere on a nine-position grid, and choose whether video fills the frame or shows whole over a blurred fill. Set your favorites once under Preferences in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fclips\">Clips and Thumbs Maker\u003C\u002Fa> and every new clip starts there.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Upload a brand logo per show under Preferences, and it goes on every clip from that show. If you have split a feed into virtual channels, each virtual channel gets its own logo, so a clip carries the logo of the show it came from.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":332,"question":333,"answerHtml":334},"title-and-thumbnail-suggestor","What is the title and thumbnail suggestor?","\u003Cp>The Thumbs tab in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fclips\">Clips and Thumbs Maker\u003C\u002Fa>. It suggests titles and thumbnails in your channel's own style, tuned to what already gets views. Pick a real episode to get alternative titles and thumbnail concepts, or describe a new episode idea to get titles in your house style before you record.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Each concept comes with an AI background image; you can regenerate it from a prompt or upload your own, add your logo and text, then download the finished 1280 by 720 thumbnail or save it to My Outputs. Titles and episode-frame previews are free; AI images and exact frame pulls get 5 free a month, then come in packs.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":336,"question":337,"answerHtml":338},"what-is-idea-studio","What is Idea Studio?","\u003Cp>An AI brainstorm for clips, inside \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fclips\">Clips and Thumbs Maker\u003C\u002Fa>. It reads your episodes and suggests moments per show. Save ideas to your board, or open a suggested moment to review the exact transcript before making a clip. Refresh suggestions analyzes the eight newest video or audio entries in the selected show. The update time appears above the suggestions.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":340,"question":341,"answerHtml":342},"why-is-an-episode-missing-from-clip-suggestions","Why is an episode missing from clip suggestions?","\u003Cp>Some YouTube videos carry limits set by their uploader: they can be blocked from playing outside YouTube, limited to certain countries, or removed from YouTube entirely. A clip can't be previewed or rendered from a video YouTube refuses to serve, so \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fclips\">Clips and Thumbs Maker\u003C\u002Fa> leaves those episodes out of Suggested clips instead of offering a clip that would fail.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo-only Instagram and TikTok posts are also left out, since they have no video or audio to cut. The episodes themselves stay on your sites either way.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":344,"question":345,"answerHtml":346},"what-does-insights-show","What does Insights show me?","\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Finsights\">Insights\u003C\u002Fa> shows what people do on your sites: page views, unique visitors, AI questions, keyword searches, and link clicks, over 7, 30, or 90 days or all time. Traffic includes the visitor funnel, conversion rate, gross checkout revenue, form submissions, email signups, member joins, purchases, memberships, and donations. What converts connects those confirmed actions and revenue back to the traffic source, referring site, landing page, and UTM source, medium, campaign, term, and content that brought the visitor in. It also shows session quality, landing and exit pages, common journeys, and top content. Current ranges are compared with the previous matching period.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Individual activity and journey detail are kept for 90 days. Daily totals, conversions, revenue, and campaign attribution are kept for historical reporting.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":348,"question":349,"answerHtml":350},"weekly-email-digest","Can I get my site stats by email?","\u003Cp>Yes. Turn on the Weekly Email Digest in the Email Digest tab of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Finsights\">Insights\u003C\u002Fa> and every Monday morning you get one email with your last 7 days: views, top pages, top searches on your site, and form messages. It is off until you turn it on, we skip weeks with no activity, and you can turn it off in the same place.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":352,"question":353,"answerHtml":354},"searches-with-no-results","Can I see what visitors searched for and didn't find?","\u003Cp>Yes. In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Finsights\">Insights\u003C\u002Fa>, the Traffic tab lists searches with no results: the words people looked for on your site that nothing matched. It is a direct list of content your audience wants, which makes it a good source of episode and page ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":356,"question":357,"answerHtml":358},"what-is-the-narrative-tab","What is the Narrative tab in Insights?","\u003Cp>It reads how each episode is built. Every episode gets a tension curve (how gripping the story is minute by minute), compared against your show's average shape, with a plain-language read of what the episode does well and where attention may dip. Curiosity spikes mark the moments most likely to hook a listener, and Coach this episode asks the AI for specific suggestions. Find it in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Finsights\">Insights\u003C\u002Fa> under Narrative.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":360,"question":361,"answerHtml":362},"is-there-an-api","Is there an API for my catalog?","\u003Cp>Yes. The Data API gives you the same indexed catalog as token-gated JSON, so you can build with your episodes and transcripts anywhere: another site, an app, or an internal tool. It is account-scoped and uses your own key. Contact us at \u003Ca href=\"mailto:hello@podspun.com\">hello@podspun.com\u003C\u002Fa> to get set up.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":364,"title":365,"lead":366,"entries":367},"using-podspun","Using Podspun","Step-by-step answers for common tasks in your Podspun account: editing your site, making clips, sending newsletters, choosing how videos play, custom domains, and billing.",[368,372,376,380,384,388,392,396,400,404,408,412,416,420,424,428,432,436,440,444,448,452,456,460,464,468,472,476,480,484,488,492,496,500,504,508,512,516,520,524,528,532,536,540,544,548,552,556,560,564,568,572,576,580,584,588,592,596],{"slug":369,"question":370,"answerHtml":371},"analytics-report-pdf","Can I download or send an analytics report?","\u003Cp>Yes. In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Finsights\">Insights\u003C\u002Fa>, click Report. Pick the dates (the presets cover 7, 30, or 90 days, or set an exact start and end), write an optional note that prints at the top, then Download PDF or enter an address and Send. The one-page report shows visitors, page views, AI questions, searches, signups, a views-by-day chart, and your top pages, sources, questions, searches, and episodes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The sent email carries the PDF as an attachment and replies come to you. Reports cover up to 90 days, which is how long the daily figures are kept.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":373,"question":374,"answerHtml":375},"build-or-edit-my-website","How do I build or edit my website?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa>. Click Add Site to create one, or Open Builder on a site to edit it. A brand-new page offers three ways to start: pick a ready-made page layout, build it block by block, or ask the AI assistant. Changes save as a draft until you Publish.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The purple Visual Edit button opens the page itself for editing: click text to type, swap images in place, and drag blocks to arrange.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":377,"question":378,"answerHtml":379},"visual-ai-editor","What is the Visual AI Editor?","\u003Cp>A chat panel inside the page editor that makes changes when you ask in plain words: shorten an intro, add a questions and answers section, give a section a dark background. Open a page in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa>, click the purple Visual Edit button, and pick the Visual AI Editor tab.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It edits a draft and every change is checked against your site's design, so it can only make the kinds of edits you could make yourself. Nothing goes live until you press Publish.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":381,"question":382,"answerHtml":383},"create-a-page-with-ai","How do I make a page with AI?","\u003Cp>Open Site Assistant in the website editor. The Page Maker tab has one box: describe the page you want, like \"a page about the science the show covers most\". The AI first shows you its plan, the page title, its address, and the sections it will build, and nothing is created until you click Create this page. Then it drafts the page out of real blocks and drops you on a live preview of the finished page.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Under Options you can base the page on one of your episodes, so it writes only from what was actually said and links readers to the exact moments, and you can make it a news article instead of a regular page. The same box can make a whole starter site if you switch it to A Whole Site.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Site Review tab works on the site you already have: Tighten Vertical Gaps closes big empty bands between sections, Grammar and Spelling suggests fixes for real mistakes in your text, and SEO Review suggests stronger search titles and descriptions. Each one scans first and shows you every change; nothing is applied until you accept it, one by one or all at once, and every accepted change saves a revision you can roll back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whatever the Page Maker makes is a private draft. You review the real output on the preview and it only goes public when you press Publish.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":385,"question":386,"answerHtml":387},"scrape-a-page-from-another-site","Can I copy a page from my old website?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open Site Assistant in the website editor and pick the Scrape a Page tab. Paste the address of one page on any public website and it comes across as a draft page on your site: the words in their written order, the photographs where they sit (each one added to your Assets), and the page's search title and description.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Notes field tells the assistant what to make from the page. It can rewrite the page's text (shorten the intro, drop the prices, write it in the first person), create article types, and turn the links the page holds into articles. For example: \"create a type called Press and make each article linked under Publications an external Press article\" reads the page and plans one draft article per linked publication. Instructions like that open as an import plan under \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fimports\">Imports\u003C\u002Fa>: you see exactly what will be made, untick anything, and run it. Leave the Notes empty to bring the page across exactly as written.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It arrives as a draft, so nothing on your live site changes until you review and publish it. To move a whole site at once, with every page and blog post, use a full migration instead.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":389,"question":390,"answerHtml":391},"ready-made-page-layouts","What are page layouts?","\u003Cp>Ready-made pages: a set of blocks already arranged for a common kind of page. There are nine: Home Landing (a hero, an intro beside search, a featured carousel of recent news and episodes, the latest episodes, rows by topic, and a mailing list signup), Channel Landing (one show's full page: its banner beside search, highlights and quotes, rows by topic, the quiz, and the filterable episode index), About Landing (the story beside a photo), Team Landing, Basic text (one rich text area for plain written pages), News Landing (a headline, the newest article featured big, a grid of recent articles, and a More button), News article, Photo story, and Questions and answers. The generated Episodes page stays focused on the filterable archive, where visitors can narrow by type, topic, title, date, and sort order without repeating the channel landing. Each card in the picker is drawn in your site's own colors and fonts so you can see how it will look. Pick one, then replace the placeholder text and images with your own.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Find them on any empty page, or with the Pick a page layout button in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":393,"question":394,"answerHtml":395},"built-in-system-pages","Why does my site have Channels, Episodes, News, and Search pages, and can I remove them?","\u003Cp>Podspun adds these pages when they become useful: Episodes and Search once a show is connected, Channels once a custom-domain site features more than one show, and News once you publish your first article.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On Podspun.com hosting, these standard pages are managed for you and appear read-only under Entries, then Pages. News stays editable in its own section. On a custom-domain site, each is a normal page you can rename, edit, or set to Inactive. Home and Page Not Found always stay on, since the site needs both to work.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":397,"question":398,"answerHtml":399},"add-a-gallery-or-images","How do I add a gallery, photos, or images to my site?","\u003Cp>Open your site in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa> and edit the page. Click Add block and choose the Gallery block: a set of images or videos shown as a masonry grid (each one keeps its natural shape and they pack together neatly) or a carousel. You choose the column count and the spacing between items, and visitors click any item to view it full screen; videos play right in the viewer. Add each item with the image picker and give it an optional caption.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Grid block also works for an even grid of images, the Media block holds a single image or video, and a Rich text block puts images inside text.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":401,"question":402,"answerHtml":403},"paid-posts-members","What is News and how do members work?","\u003Cp>News (the section previously called "Off Mic") turns your website's news articles into a members newsletter. In an article's editor, set Who Can Read It to Members Only: visitors then see the opening of the post plus a join card, and the post wears a Members badge in your News listings. Readers join with their email and can sign in three ways: a one-time emailed sign-in link, a password created on Podspun's central member page, or Google. One Podspun member account works across every show they belong to.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Posts email themselves to your members the first time they publish (turn that off per site with Email Posts To Members Automatically under Payments & Pricing), and the article's Config tab keeps a Send to Members button for sending by hand; nothing is ever sent twice. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fpaidposts\">News\u003C\u002Fa> workspace in your account is home base, under Shared Posts in the sidebar next to Quizzes & Games, with its own sections: Posts lists every post per website with a Write a Post button that opens a live editor of your own site, and each row has a checkbox: select posts (or select all) and Delete Selected removes them for good after you type DELETE to confirm; Members shows who joined with each member's tier (Free or Paid) and a Remove action (removal signs them out and closes members-only posts to them right away); Post Ideas reads your audience; Payments & Pricing holds Stripe and your prices.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":405,"question":406,"answerHtml":407},"paid-posts-charge-for-posts","How do I charge for posts with a paid membership?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fmemberships\">Memberships\u003C\u002Fa> (under Income in the sidebar). First connect a Stripe account (setup takes a few minutes; if you already use Stripe you can sign in with it). Then, for each website, turn on Offer Paid Memberships and set a monthly price, an annual price, or both, from $1 to $10,000.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now set any article's Who Can Read It to Paid Members. Visitors and free members see the opening of the post plus a subscribe card with your prices; a reader signs in with their email, picks a plan, and pays through Stripe checkout. The money goes to your own Stripe account, and you handle payouts and refunds from your own Stripe dashboard. A paid member reads every paid post on the site, and Send to Members emails a paid post only to paying subscribers. Subscribers manage or cancel their plan through Stripe's billing portal, from the same subscribe card once they are paid.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":409,"question":410,"answerHtml":411},"paid-posts-auto-draft","Can a post be drafted automatically when a new episode goes up?","\u003Cp>Yes. On the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fpaidposts?tab=config\">News Automation Config tab\u003C\u002Fa>, each website has a Draft Posts From New Episodes switch. With it on, whenever a new episode of your shows arrives and its transcript is ready, we write a companion article from that transcript, with links that jump readers to the exact moments on the episode page.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every one of these arrives as a draft in your News library, never published and never emailed on its own. You read it, edit it, set who can read it (everyone, members, or paid members), publish, and send it to your members when you're happy with it. We draft each episode once and check for new episodes every hour, covering episodes published in the last week.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":413,"question":414,"answerHtml":415},"paid-posts-ideas","Where do post ideas for my newsletter come from?","\u003Cp>The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fpaidposts\u002Fideas\">Content Ideas\u003C\u002Fa> section reads your visitors' last 30 days. The episodes people opened most each get a Draft a Post button: one click writes a companion article from that episode's own transcript and leaves it in your News library for you to review. Below that, the words people searched, including searches that found nothing, point at topics your audience already wants. Write one with Site Assistant's Page Maker.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The card only shows what happened on your sites. Before you have visitor activity, it says so instead of inventing ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":417,"question":418,"answerHtml":419},"paid-posts-member-accounts","How do readers sign in to read members posts?","\u003Cp>Readers get real accounts on your website, under \u002Fmembers (renameable in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fmemberships\">Memberships\u003C\u002Fa>, under Income). They join with a secure one-time email sign-in link, continue with Google, or use their central Podspun member account. Opening an emailed link shows a Podspun confirmation button first, so an automatic mailbox scanner cannot use it before the reader does.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Signed-in members manage their newsletter preference, paid plan (through Stripe's own billing portal), and sign out at \u002Fmembers. Password setup and reset happen only on Podspun's secure central member page, never on a publisher-controlled website. A password reset signs out older member sessions across every show. A Members link appears in your site header automatically once you use News members posts, and the join card under every gated post points readers to the same pages.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":421,"question":422,"answerHtml":423},"paid-posts-where-they-live","What web address do my posts live at?","\u003Cp>Posts live under their own landing page, \u002Fposts, created automatically with your first post. It's a system page like your News landing: you can rename its address (to \u002Fnewsletter, \u002Fletters, anything) and edit its layout in the CMS, but it can't be deleted. Your News section stays separate for press and announcements, so the newsletter and the news never mix.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Each post's address is \u002Fposts\u002F<its-slug>, and the slug is editable in the post's editor. If a post is ever reached under the wrong address, it forwards permanently to the right one, so links never break.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":425,"question":426,"answerHtml":427},"news-page-search-box","Can visitors search the articles on my News page?","\u003Cp>Yes, and it is already on. Every News page shows a search box above the article grid: visitors type a word and the grid narrows to the articles whose title or summary match, including an article currently featured at the top. Clearing the box brings the full list back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Next to it are buttons for each of your categories and tags, so a visitor can narrow to one subject, and buttons to read newest first or oldest first. Load More reveals the next batch. How many articles show before that first press is the News Index block's How Many In The Grid setting, in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This searches news articles only. The episode search on your Episodes page is separate.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":429,"question":430,"answerHtml":431},"external-press-articles","Can my News page link to press coverage on other sites?","\u003Cp>Yes. When you create a news article, an Article Type switch sits under the title: Internal Article (the default, a normal article you write in blocks) or External Press Link. An external article is a pointer to coverage somewhere else: you give it a title, a feature graphic, and the link to the outside piece, and set its publish date and category under Config like any article.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>External articles appear in your News listings alongside your own articles, sorted by publish date, but clicking one opens the outside coverage in a new tab instead of a page on your site. They stay out of your sitemap since there is no on-site page to index.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":433,"question":434,"answerHtml":435},"write-an-article-from-an-episode","Can AI write an article from one of my episodes?","\u003Cp>Yes, two ways. In Entries, News, click Write from an episode, search your episodes, and pick one. Or open Site Assistant in the CMS sidebar, describe any page you want in Page Maker, and attach an episode to base it on. Either way the AI writes from that episode's own transcript, grounded in what was actually said, with links that jump readers to the exact moments on the episode page. It arrives as a draft for you to read, edit, and publish.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":437,"question":438,"answerHtml":439},"make-any-page-with-ai","Can AI make a page from my own description?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open Site Assistant in your site's CMS sidebar and use Page Maker: describe what you want in plain words (a topic page, a questions and answers page, an article), optionally base it on one of your episodes so it writes from that transcript, and choose whether it lands as a regular page or a news article. It arrives as a draft built from real blocks, and one click removes it if you don't like it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":441,"question":442,"answerHtml":443},"build-my-site-with-ai","Can AI build my whole site?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open Site Assistant in your site's CMS sidebar (from \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa>). Page Maker reads the shows on your site and drafts a home page, an about page, and more out of real blocks, including live episode blocks that stay current on their own. Everything arrives as drafts for you to review, edit, and publish, and one click removes the whole batch if you don't like it. Picking your colors and fonts is a separate switch, off unless you turn it on, because that is the one thing that changes your live look right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The same screen writes news articles from your episodes' transcripts, and points you to the Visual AI Editor for editing an existing page in plain words.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":445,"question":446,"answerHtml":447},"add-a-contact-form","How do I add a contact form to my site?","\u003Cp>You already have one. Every site is built with a Contact page carrying a ready-to-use form (Name, Email, Message), linked from the footer of every page. Messages go to Contact Forms, on the Messages tab. Open it in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa> to change the wording or the fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To build another form: go to your site's Forms section (in the CMS sidebar), give it a name and add any fields in any order. Text, Message, Email, Phone, and Date (visitors pick from a calendar). Each field has a label, an optional placeholder, and a Required switch; drag rows to reorder and delete any field. You can also style the submit button (label, alignment, full width; colors follow your site's button style). Then place the form on any page with the Form block and pick it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Messages land in Contact Forms on the Messages tab, and each form can also email you every submission, replying straight to the visitor when the form asks for an email. When Email is on for your account and the form has an Email field, visitors also get a join-the-mailing-list checkbox with the same confirmation step as your signup forms. Spam protection (an invisible captcha and a honeypot) is built into every form, and each form's messages download as a CSV with a column per field.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":449,"question":450,"answerHtml":451},"what-is-a-reusable-block","What is a reusable (Global) block, and how do I edit one?","\u003Cp>A reusable block is content you write once and place on as many pages as you like. Every page holding it shows the same thing, so changing it in one spot changes it everywhere. You can spot one by its dashed orange outline and its Global tag, both in the block list and on the page itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Edit one the same way as anything else: click the text or image right on the page in the visual editor and change it. Because the content belongs to the shared block rather than to this page, the change shows on every page that holds it, and it goes live as soon as you finish typing instead of waiting for Publish (a reusable block has no draft of its own). If you want to change the wording on just one page, swap the reusable block for a normal block there.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Manage the full list under Reusable Blocks in the CMS sidebar, where you can rename one, edit it, or see which pages use it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":453,"question":454,"answerHtml":455},"make-an-image-with-ai","Can I make an image with AI?","\u003Cp>Yes. Anywhere you pick an image, open the asset browser and choose the Make with AI tab. Describe the image in plain words and click Make it. You see the result first, big, and nothing is saved yet: add it to your assets when you like it, or tweak the words and make a variation until it is right. There is also a Stock photos tab for searching free photos.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":457,"question":458,"answerHtml":459},"assets-view-and-folders","Where are my images and files? What is the Assets section?","\u003Cp>Assets holds every image and file your site uses, and it works the same as the picker you see anywhere you add an image. It opens on All assets, a searchable view of everything you have, so you never dig through folders to find a picture. Type in the search box to filter by name, Upload adds a file (or drag files straight from your desktop onto the panel), and clicking an image opens the editor to crop it or set its focal point.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Stock photos tab searches free, no-attribution photos, and Make with AI generates an image from a description, shows it to you first, and saves it only when you approve it. Folders are optional: switch to Browse folders to organize, or ignore them and All assets still shows everything.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":461,"question":462,"answerHtml":463},"add-an-image-or-video","How do I add a single image or a video?","\u003Cp>Use the Media block: one image or video with an optional caption, good for breaking up a long page. Add it in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa> with Add block, then choose the image or paste the video.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":465,"question":466,"answerHtml":467},"image-alt-text","Do I need to write alt text for my images?","\u003Cp>Not usually. Every image you upload is described automatically (AI-made images keep the description you typed, stock photos keep the photographer's), and when you place an image in a block with an Alt Text field, the description fills in on its own. You can always edit it, and a hand-written line beats an automatic one for important images.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":469,"question":470,"answerHtml":471},"what-blocks-can-i-add","What blocks can I add to a page?","\u003Cp>Rich text (paragraphs, headings, links, and embedded images or video), Hero (the top banner), Grid (an even grid of images or items, good for a gallery), Cards (a row of cards, with a Carousel option), Media (one image or video), CTA (a prompt with one button), Stats, Partner logos, Contact, Form (a contact form with its own inbox), FAQ, Email signup, News, and Spacer.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Plus live podcast blocks that stay current on their own: Episodes, Episodes archive, Episode list, Episode player, Playlist, Channels, Channel hero, Topics, AI Search, Caption search, Key moments, Pull quotes, and four games: the Monthly Quiz, Guess the Episode (a daily blur-reveal), Who Said It? (name the episode a quote is from), and Higher or Lower (before or after on the timeline), plus the Arcade Room that gathers them into one hub. Every game comes in a Classic or Arcade style. Add any of them with Add block in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":473,"question":474,"answerHtml":475},"podcast-games-and-arcade-room","What are the games and the Arcade Room?","\u003Cp>The games are interactive blocks built automatically from your own show. They give visitors a reason to stay, come back, and dig into your back catalog, because every game is drawn from your episodes and transcripts and links back to the real episode. There are four games, plus a hub called the Arcade Room that gathers them in one place.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The Monthly Quiz\u003C\u002Fstrong> is a short set of questions drawn from what was said across your episodes, played right on the page with answers and explanations after each one. A new quiz arrives every month, written mostly from that month's episodes and skipping the ones the last few quizzes already asked about, so it is a gentle reason for people to check back and it does not keep circling the same episodes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Guess the Episode\u003C\u002Fstrong> is a daily game: one of your episode thumbnails appears heavily blurred and sharpens a little with each wrong guess. Naming it in fewer guesses scores more points (300, then 200, then 100). Everyone gets the same puzzle each day and a new one arrives at midnight, so there is a reason to come back tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Who Said It?\u003C\u002Fstrong> is endless: a real line from one of your transcripts appears and the player guesses which episode it came from. Right answers build a streak, one miss ends the run, and the best streak is saved. Every reveal links to the exact moment in the episode.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Higher or Lower\u003C\u002Fstrong> is an endless timeline game: one episode shows its release date, a mystery episode hides its own, and the player calls whether it came out before or after. A right call keeps the streak going; one wrong call ends the run.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The \u003Cstrong>Arcade Room\u003C\u002Fstrong> is the hub. It shows an optional scoreboard on top (day streak and high scores, which you can turn off with the Show Scoreboard option) plus a grid of all four games. Visitors open one at a time, so the page stays short, and Columns sets how many game fronts sit per row. Drop the Arcade Room on a page to offer everything at once, or add any single game on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Every game and the whole Arcade Room come in two looks, set by the Style option: \u003Cstrong>Classic\u003C\u002Fstrong> (the default) is a calm, clean card that matches your site's theme colors, and \u003Cstrong>Arcade\u003C\u002Fstrong> is a retro neon cabinet with a glowing marquee and press start. The game plays the same either way, so pick whichever fits your site.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The games run on your Podspun data, so connect a channel and publish your site. On an unpublished preview each game shows a short \"coming soon\" placeholder until Podspun has pulled in your episodes and transcripts. Add any of them with Add block in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa>, under the Podspun Dataweaver Integration section.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Where each one lives.\u003C\u002Fstrong> The Monthly Quiz belongs to a show, because its questions are about that show. Guess the Episode, Who Said It and Higher or Lower belong to a website: each website gets one pool per game covering every show on it, so a website with six shows has three pools rather than eighteen. Set a game block to a single show and it plays that show's part of the pool. The pools are only built for a website that has one of these games on a page, so nothing is generated for a game you have not used yet. Everything is listed and editable in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fpaidposts\u002Fgames\">Quizzes & Games\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":477,"question":478,"answerHtml":479},"hero-slides-and-fixed-content","How does the Hero block work? What are Slides and Fixed Content?","\u003Cp>A Hero has two parts. Slides are the backgrounds, and they move: add one for a still banner, or several and they rotate on their own like a carousel. Tick Add copy on a slide to give that one background its own words, which change along with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fixed Content does not move. It stays in one place while the slides change behind it, so use it when you want the same words or buttons on every slide, like a headline or a Watch Now button that is always there. It is off until you press Add fixed content.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":481,"question":482,"answerHtml":483},"change-logo-colors-fonts","How do I change my logo, colors, or fonts?","\u003Cp>In the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">website editor\u003C\u002Fa>, open the theme settings to pick a color palette and fonts, and set your logo with the image picker. The colors and fonts apply across the whole site.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":485,"question":486,"answerHtml":487},"publish-or-preview-a-draft","How do I publish my changes or preview a draft?","\u003Cp>Edits in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">website editor\u003C\u002Fa> save as a draft and do not change the live site until you Publish. Use the preview to see a draft first, then click Publish to make it live. You can roll back to an earlier version if needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>A draft stays current on its own: if the live page gets edited while a draft is open, those live changes are folded into the draft the next time you open it (your own draft edits always win), so publishing a draft never quietly undoes newer live work. The What changed link next to the Draft chip lists every difference before you publish.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To publish several pages at once, go to Entries then Pages, tick the pages you want, and press Publish Changes in the bar at the bottom. It counts how many of the ticked pages have edits waiting, and it skips any page that is already up to date. A page missing something required is named and left alone rather than published half finished. This is not the same as the Set Status control beside it: status decides whether a page is live at all, while Publish Changes sends out the edits sitting on top of it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":489,"question":490,"answerHtml":491},"schedule-a-page","Can I schedule a page to go live later?","\u003Cp>Yes. In the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">page editor\u003C\u002Fa>, set Go Live At in the sidebar to a future date and time. The page stays hidden until then, and appears on its own when the time passes. Leave it empty to be live right away. News articles schedule the same way with the Publish date in their Config tab.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":493,"question":494,"answerHtml":495},"see-what-changed-in-a-draft","How do I see what a draft changes before I publish it?","\u003Cp>Open the draft in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">website editor\u003C\u002Fa> and click What changed, next to the draft label at the top. It shows every difference side by side, the live page on the left and the draft on the right, with removed words struck out and new words highlighted. That covers page settings, blocks you added or removed, edits inside cards and slides, and rearranged blocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Pages list shows the same thing at a glance: a page with a draft that holds real changes carries a chip like Draft, 4 changes, and clicking the chip opens that draft. A draft that matches the live page shows no chip.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Version history works the same way: open View all revisions and click Compare on any version to see exactly what restoring it would change before you roll back.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":497,"question":498,"answerHtml":499},"use-my-own-domain","How do I use my own custom domain?","\u003Cp>In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa>, open your site's Setup and choose Custom domain. Add the domain, then follow the DNS records it shows you. Once the DNS is verified, the site switches from simple Podspun.com hosting to the custom-domain mode.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":501,"question":502,"answerHtml":503},"promote-my-website-on-podspun-com","How does my custom website get promoted on Podspun.com?","\u003Cp>It already is. Open a site in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa>, then Setup, then Podspun Exposure: Promote this website and its channels on Podspun.com is set to Yes for every site.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It is a free way to promote the website to people browsing Podspun.com. Every listing links straight to your site, so all the SEO lives on your own domain. The subjects a listing shows up under are read from your episodes by Dataweaver, so there is nothing to fill in. Set it to No to keep the site off Podspun.com.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":505,"question":506,"answerHtml":507},"make-a-clip","How do I make a clip?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fclips\">Clips and Thumbs Maker\u003C\u002Fa> and click Make a clip, or start from a suggested clip. Pick the episode, click the transcript to set the start, trim the length, choose the output (video clip, audiogram, or mp3), shape, captions, and logo, then press Make clip. Finished clips land in My Outputs, ready to download and post.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Your first 3 clips each month are free; past that they come in packs of 25.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":509,"question":510,"answerHtml":511},"send-a-newsletter","How do I send a newsletter or email my audience?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa> and click New campaign. Build the email from templates, pick a list, and send; every campaign shows its sent, open, and click counts. Personal email sends one message to one person. Email is on for every account and free for your first 100 subscribed contacts, then $9.00\u002Fmonth up to 500.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":513,"question":514,"answerHtml":515},"rename-off-mic-section","Can I call the News section something else on my site?","\u003Cp>Yes. In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fmemberships\">Memberships\u003C\u002Fa> (under Income in the sidebar), each website has a \u003Cstrong>What This Section Is Called\u003C\u002Fstrong> field. Type the name you want (Newsletter, Dispatch, anything) and save. It changes the heading on the posts page, the crumb trail above each post, and any menu item pointing at that page, all at once, including menu items that still carry the section's old name, "Off Mic".\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It only changes what readers see on that one site. Your posts stay one library across the account, and each site can use its own name.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":517,"question":518,"answerHtml":519},"email-a-post-to-members","How do I email a News post to my members?","\u003Cp>Open the post, publish it, then go to its \u003Cstrong>Config\u003C\u002Fstrong> tab and click \u003Cstrong>Send to members\u003C\u002Fstrong> under Email This Post to Members. It goes to the members of every site the post shows on (its Where It Shows setting), and a person who joined two of your sites gets one copy. A paid post goes only to paying subscribers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sending is always your choice: publishing a post never emails anyone on its own. The button waits until the post is published, because the email carries the published version. Config also shows when a post was last sent and to how many people, so you never send twice by accident.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":521,"question":522,"answerHtml":523},"see-analytics","Where do I see analytics for my channels?","\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Finsights\">Insights\u003C\u002Fa>. It covers traffic, campaign attribution, visitor journeys, conversions, and gross checkout revenue across your sites, plus the Narrative episode analyzer and AI content ideas, split into Traffic, Social, Narrative, Ideas, Email Digest, and Ask AI tabs. The Social tab shows how a TikTok or Instagram catalog performs: total views and likes, which topics pull views, posting rhythm, top posts, and views over time.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":525,"question":526,"answerHtml":527},"what-is-podspun-com-setup","How do I use Podspun.com hosting?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fwebsites\">Website Builder\u003C\u002Fa> and choose a site. Under Setup, choose \u003Cstrong>Podspun.com\u003C\u002Fstrong> for simple hosting without custom DNS, or \u003Cstrong>Custom domain\u003C\u002Fstrong> for the full website builder.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Podspun.com hosting loads and manages the standard public pages for you, so custom pages are read-only and you cannot add more. You can still write and manage News, quizzes, and shared content in the same builder. Email gathering is currently off on Podspun.com-hosted sites. Switch to Custom domain when you want to add or redesign pages.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":529,"question":530,"answerHtml":531},"choose-where-a-channel-appears","How do I choose where a channel appears?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Podspun Dataweaver\u003C\u002Fa>. The \u003Cstrong>Where It Appears\u003C\u002Fstrong> menu on each channel shows its assigned custom website or Podspun.com page. Choose another destination from that menu to move the channel.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":533,"question":534,"answerHtml":535},"how-posts-play","How do my TikTok and Instagram posts play, and do plays count on the platform?","\u003Cp>Each social channel has a How Posts Play setting in its editor under \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa>, with two players.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The \u003Cstrong>Podspun player\u003C\u002Fstrong> (the default) plays our archived copy of the post right on the page. It starts instantly, the transcript beside it is clickable so a reader can jump to any line, and plays count in your Podspun analytics. These plays do not appear in the post's TikTok or Instagram view count, because the platforms only count plays that stream through their own players.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The \u003Cstrong>TikTok \u002F Instagram player\u003C\u002Fstrong> uses the platform's own embedded player, so each real play counts toward the post's view count there. It loads slower, and the transcript sits beside it as plain text without the click-to-jump.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One thing worth weighing: a post earns nearly all of its platform views in its first days in the feed. These pages mostly help people find and read older posts through search and topics, so for a back catalog the running count barely moves either way, and the choice mostly comes down to how the page feels to use.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":537,"question":538,"answerHtml":539},"your-podspun-page","What is my Podspun page, and how do I change what is on it?","\u003Cp>Every channel you add gets a page on podspun.com at its own address. A page can also gather several of your channels under one address: podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram together, episodes and posts merged and searchable in one place.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa> shows your pages as cards at the top; the list below holds channels that appear nowhere on podspun.com. To merge channels, press Edit on a page and use Channels Shown On This Page: tick the channels it should gather, and name the page and pick its address (keeping the channel's own address is fine; that address then shows the merged page). A channel gathered onto a page is managed from that page, never in two places.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":541,"question":542,"answerHtml":543},"show-or-hide-podcast-on-podspun-com","How do I show or hide a podcast on podspun.com?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa>, open the podcast, and use Active. Active gives the podcast its own public page on podspun.com, where people can browse, play, and search its episodes; Inactive takes that page down and removes the podcast from podspun.com entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>While it is Active, Podspun.com Exposure sets how findable the page is: Full (promoted across Podspun and indexed by search engines), SEO Only (indexed by search engines but never featured by Podspun), or Unlisted (up for anyone with the link, but search engines skip it and Podspun does not list it anywhere; linking it on a Cross Link still shows it there).\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If a feed is split into separate shows, each show is listed on its own and has its own settings, so you can, for example, index one show and hide another. Editing a show changes only that show.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To change several at once, check them in the Podspun.com Setup list and use Change a setting: it can set Active, Podspun.com Exposure, AI search, and How videos play for all of the checked items.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":545,"question":546,"answerHtml":547},"choose-how-videos-play","How do I choose how my videos play, and does it affect ads?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa>, open the podcast, and use How videos play. It is a YouTube-only setting with three modes. Normal play is our interactive player with the live synced transcript, but YouTube does not run ads on it. Ads play uses YouTube's standard click-to-play player so YouTube can run ads (the transcript stays searchable but no longer highlights live). Link out to YouTube sends viewers to YouTube.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Pick Ads play if ad revenue matters; pick Normal play for the richest on-site experience.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":549,"question":550,"answerHtml":551},"get-my-catalog-as-data","How do I get my catalog as data (the API)?","\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fintegrations\">Data API\u003C\u002Fa> in your account gives you a token-gated key to pull your episodes and transcripts as JSON for use anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":553,"question":554,"answerHtml":555},"billing-profile-team","Where do I manage billing, my profile, or my team?","\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fbilling\">Billing\u003C\u002Fa> has your subscription, usage, and past bills. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fprofile\">Profile\u003C\u002Fa> is your email, password, and sign-in. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Faccounts\">Accounts\u003C\u002Fa> is where you name this account, give other people access, and switch between accounts.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":557,"question":558,"answerHtml":559},"keep-shorts-off-my-site","How do I keep Shorts or certain videos off my site?","\u003Cp>Open the channel in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Podspun Dataweaver\u003C\u002Fa> and use Filter the feed. Video type shows both, full videos only, or Shorts only (a Short is under three minutes). By title adds rules like \"title must contain\" or \"title cannot contain\".\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It is a display filter: everything stays imported, the filtered episodes are just hidden from every surface, so changing your mind later brings them back instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":561,"question":562,"answerHtml":563},"split-one-feed-into-shows","Can I split one feed into separate shows?","\u003Cp>Yes. Open the channel in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Podspun Dataweaver\u003C\u002Fa> and use Split into shows. Episodes matching your rules become their own show, listed under the parent channel, with its own pages, search, and presentation settings. Useful when one feed carries several series.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":565,"question":566,"answerHtml":567},"check-for-new-episodes-now","How do I check for new episodes right now?","\u003Cp>Open the channel in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Podspun Dataweaver\u003C\u002Fa> and click Check now under Check for new episodes (available once every three hours). You rarely need it: Podspun also checks automatically through the day and runs a full sync nightly.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":569,"question":570,"answerHtml":571},"switch-or-add-accounts","How do I switch between accounts or add another?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Faccounts\">Accounts\u003C\u002Fa>. It lists every account you created or were given access to; Switch to this account moves you into it, and a banner brings you back. Add new account creates a fully separate account with its own channels, websites, people, and billing.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":573,"question":574,"answerHtml":575},"give-my-team-access","How do I give other people access to my account?","\u003Cp>Go to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Faccounts\">Accounts\u003C\u002Fa> and use Add someone to invite them by email with a role: Full Admin (everything, including billing), Tech Admin (everything except billing and team), or Content Admin (content, ideas, and reports). They sign in with their own Podspun login, and you can change or remove access anytime.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These roles are the one place you manage access. They cover every website in the account too: a Full or Tech Admin can fully edit each site, and a Content Admin can edit each site's content. There is no separate per-site access list to keep in sync.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":577,"question":578,"answerHtml":579},"whats-on-dashboard-card","How do I see which features are on for my account?","\u003Cp>The Welcome page has a What’s On card listing every major piece of your account with its live state: Podspun.com, Websites, the Data API, News, the Store, Donations, Email Campaigns, Payment Setup, and your Contacts count. Each row has a Configure link straight to that area’s setup, so turning something on or adjusting it is one click from the overview.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":581,"question":582,"answerHtml":583},"what-is-quick-start","How do I migrate my website, Instagram, and TikTok?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fimports\">Imports\u003C\u002Fa> and choose New migration. The form begins with two Social Media channel fields, and you can add more. Each accepts YouTube, Apple Podcasts, RSS, Instagram, or TikTok. You can also add one existing website. Podspun inventories every website page and article URL, but reads only a small article sample for visual previews. Channel analysis records identity and item count. Nothing is created during analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>On the review screen, choose a starting theme, preview the proposed site page by page, choose which records come across, change their new URLs, and decide whether each becomes a page, News item, gallery, contact page, or external link. Full approved article content and channel items are fetched only after you start the migration. The Imports page keeps the plan and its progress, with a live bar per channel while posts and media are read and copied. Until that first import finishes the site itself shows only an importing screen, on every address, and it opens automatically when the import completes.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":585,"question":586,"answerHtml":587},"what-is-a-collection-page","What is a Cross Link on podspun.com?","\u003Cp>A page on podspun.com carrying your own name and logo that ties several of your podcasts together, at its own address like podspun.com\u002Fcollection\u002Fyour-name, so a visitor who finds one show finds the rest. Good for networks and agencies. Set it up under the Cross Links tab in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection?tab=crosslinks\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa>: name it, write a short bio, pick the podcasts, and optionally add an email signup that feeds your Email contacts. Cross Links used to be called collection pages.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":589,"question":590,"answerHtml":591},"unlisted-collection-page","Can I keep a Cross Link out of Google?","\u003Cp>Yes. On the page's settings under the Cross Links tab in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection?tab=crosslinks\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa>, set Private to Yes. The page stays up at its direct link so you can share it, but it is left out of search engines and podspun.com listings. Useful while you set it up, for demos, client previews, and a soft launch. Set it back to No when you want it found.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":593,"question":594,"answerHtml":595},"youtube-subscribe-popup","What is the subscribe pop-up on my YouTube link?","\u003Cp>When your site's YouTube social link points at your channel or a video, YouTube can greet visitors who aren't subscribed yet with a small \"Subscribe?\" prompt. It's on by default; turn it off with the checkbox under your YouTube link in the site's Menus, Social section. It only has an effect on channel and video links.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":597,"question":598,"answerHtml":599},"contacts-in-one-place","Where do I see everyone across my account in one place?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcontacts\">Contacts\u003C\u002Fa>. It shows one row per person across your whole account, with every relationship they hold: newsletter subscriber, member (free or paid), store buyer, donor, sorted by their latest activity. It reads across all your sites and tools, so someone who subscribed on one site and bought from another shows up once, whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Manage mailing lists and imports in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\u002Fcontacts\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa>, memberships are managed right there too (removing one signs the reader out of that site); buyers and donors join your contacts when they check Email me updates at checkout.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":601,"title":602,"lead":603,"entries":604},"email","Email and newsletters","The built-in newsletter tool: contacts and lists, signup forms on your site, campaigns with open and click tracking, sending from your own domain, and what it costs (free for your first 100 contacts).",[605,609,613,617,621,625,629,633,637,641],{"slug":606,"question":607,"answerHtml":608},"what-is-email-campaigns","What is Email Campaigns?","\u003Cp>Podspun's built-in newsletter tool, at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa>. It is on for every account: you get Campaigns (build and send newsletters from templates), Personal email (one message to one person), Contacts, Lists, and Templates. Every campaign reports sent, opens, and clicks, and the legal footer and unsubscribe link are added automatically.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":610,"question":611,"answerHtml":612},"email-footer-social-links","Can my email footer use my website's social links?","\u003Cp>Yes. In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\u002Fconfig\">Email → Config → Footer\u003C\u002Fa>, choose whether the footer's social links come from one of your websites or from a list you add by hand. When you point it at a website, every email reads the site's current links (the ones you manage in that site's Menus → Social section) at send time, so updating them on the site updates your emails too.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":614,"question":615,"answerHtml":616},"what-does-email-cost","What does Email cost?","\u003Cp>Email is free for your first 100 subscribed contacts, then $9.00\u002Fmonth up to 500, stepping up as your list grows. The tier picks itself from your live contact count, and only Subscribed contacts count: pending, unsubscribed, and bounced addresses do not. Turn Email off anytime and the charge stops.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":618,"question":619,"answerHtml":620},"add-or-import-contacts","How do I add or import my contacts?","\u003Cp>In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa>, open Contacts. Add people one at a time or import a CSV from your old provider. Each contact carries a status (Subscribed, Pending, Unsubscribed, Bounced, or Complained) and list memberships, and only Subscribed contacts count toward your monthly tier.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":622,"question":623,"answerHtml":624},"collect-signups-on-my-site","How do visitors join my mailing list?","\u003Cp>Add the Email signup block to any page of your website, or turn on the signup on one of your podspun.com Cross Links. Signups flow into your Podspun contacts (recommended) or straight into your Mailchimp account, whichever you pick under Signups in Email's Config.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Confirm email before subscribing (double opt-in) is on by default, and you can send an automatic welcome email with your own subject and message.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":626,"question":627,"answerHtml":628},"send-from-my-own-domain","Can I send email from my own domain?","\u003Cp>Yes. In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa>, open Config and then Sending DNS Setup. Pick one of your website domains and choose the sender: the domain itself, a ready-made subdomain (ps.yourdomain.com), or a subdomain you name. It shows the exact DNS records to add and flips to Verified once they are in place. Until then, sending uses Podspun's own verified domain, so nothing is blocked while you set it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Only three records are needed, all pointing at Podspun: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. This sets up sending, not receiving. Podspun does not run an inbox for you, so replies go to the Reply-to address you set in Sending DNS Setup, which should be a real email you already check (like your Gmail). Set that and every reply reaches you.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":630,"question":631,"answerHtml":632},"where-do-replies-go","Where do replies to my emails go?","\u003Cp>To the Reply-to address you set in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\u002Fconfig\u002Fsending\">Sending DNS Setup\u003C\u002Fa>. Podspun sends your email but does not receive mail for you, so pick a real inbox you already check, like your Gmail or an address on a mail service you run, and every reply goes straight there. If you leave Reply-to blank, replies go to your From email, so that one also needs to be a real inbox you can open. Your website domain needs no receiving setup for this: it only sends.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":634,"question":635,"answerHtml":636},"where-do-i-add-dns-records","Where do I add the DNS records?","\u003Cp>At the company that manages your domain’s DNS, which is usually where you bought the domain (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace, Cloudflare, and so on). In \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\u002Fconfig\u002Fsending\">Sending DNS Setup\u003C\u002Fa>, if your domain is not on Cloudflare, Podspun reads your domain’s settings and names the company for you, with a link to open its control panel. Sign in there, find your domain, open its DNS settings, and add the rows shown. If your domain is on Cloudflare, use the “Add everything to Cloudflare for me” button and it writes them for you.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":638,"question":639,"answerHtml":640},"opens-and-clicks","Can I see who opened and clicked my emails?","\u003Cp>Yes. The Campaigns list in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\">Email Campaigns\u003C\u002Fa> shows each campaign's sent, open, and click counts. Unsubscribes are handled automatically through the footer link and the contact's status updates on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":642,"question":643,"answerHtml":644},"turn-email-off","How do I turn Email off?","\u003Cp>Email is on for every account and free for your first 100 contacts, then $9.00\u002Fmonth. To turn it off, open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Femail\u002Fconfig\u002Fsending\">Email Campaigns → Config → Sending Setup\u003C\u002Fa> and flip Email On to No. Signup collection and sending stop, and so does the monthly charge. Your contacts stay saved, so turning it back on later picks up where you left off.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":646,"title":647,"lead":648,"entries":649},"monetize","Earning from your show","Ways your Podspun pages can earn: contextual affiliate ads on your episode pages paid through your own affiliate code, and how YouTube ad revenue works on Podspun.",[650,654,658,662,666],{"slug":651,"question":652,"answerHtml":653},"how-affiliate-ads-work","How do affiliate ads on my episodes work?","\u003Cp>Turn on Show ads in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fmonetize\">Affiliate Codes\u003C\u002Fa> and add your affiliate code (your Amazon Associates tag, like yoursite-20). Episode pages then show a product recommendation that follows what is being said and changes as the conversation moves, and purchases through it are credited to your code, so the money is yours. Podspun does not take a cut.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One setting can cover everything, or use Set ads separately to control podspun.com and each of your websites individually.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":655,"question":656,"answerHtml":657},"do-i-need-my-own-affiliate-code","Do I need my own affiliate code to show ads?","\u003Cp>To earn, yes: sign up for Amazon Associates and paste your tag into \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fmonetize\">Affiliate Codes\u003C\u002Fa>. On podspun.com, a blank code means no ad shows at all, so you never promote products without earning. On your own websites, a blank code falls back to Podspun's code until you add yours.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":659,"question":660,"answerHtml":661},"earn-from-youtube-ads","Can I still earn YouTube ad revenue on Podspun?","\u003Cp>Yes, if your source is YouTube and the channel is set to Ads play under How videos play in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcollection\">Podspun.com Setup\u003C\u002Fa>. That mode uses YouTube's standard player, the kind YouTube runs ads on, and the revenue flows to YouTube and you exactly as it does on youtube.com. Podspun takes no share. See the full answer under Will my YouTube video ads run on Podspun.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":663,"question":664,"answerHtml":665},"open-a-store","How do I sell products on my website?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcommerce\">Store & Donations\u003C\u002Fa> in your account. Connect a Stripe account under Payments (money goes straight to your own Stripe, and one connection also powers donations and paid memberships), add products under Products (physical or digital, with options like size and color, photos, and stock counts), then turn the store on in Store Settings. Your website gets a store page automatically, and the Store Designer lets you arrange it in your site's own look. Orders arrive under Orders, where you mark them shipped or refund them; digital products deliver themselves by email.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The store costs nothing monthly. Podspun's share per sale falls as you sell more in a month (5% on the first $500 a month, 3% to $2,000, then 1.5%), plus card processing.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":667,"question":668,"answerHtml":669},"take-donations","How do I take donations on my website?","\u003Cp>Open \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fcommerce\u002Fdonations\">Store & Donations\u003C\u002Fa> in your account and turn donations on. You choose the suggested amounts, whether monthly and yearly giving are offered, and whether supporters can leave a note or appear on a public supporters list. Your website gets a donate page automatically, and the Donate block can put a giving card on any page.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Donations need the same Stripe connection as the store (set up under Payments). Gifts go to your own Stripe account; Podspun's share is 1.5%. Receipts live under Receipts, and recurring gifts can be canceled from the receipt's link.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":671,"title":672,"lead":673,"entries":674},"managing","Account and managing your site","Syncing and update speed, feed filters, hiding episodes, fixing transcripts, how your data is used with AI, YouTube ads, contacting support, and what happens if you leave.",[675,679,683,687,691,695,699,703,707,711],{"slug":676,"question":677,"answerHtml":678},"how-fast-do-new-episodes-update","How fast does Podspun update new episodes?","\u003Cp>Your show syncs automatically every night after you connect it, whether it is a YouTube channel, an Apple Podcasts show, or an RSS feed. Podspun also updates transcripts and auto-generated highlights, summaries, and other insights. No extra work needed.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":680,"question":681,"answerHtml":682},"private-or-unlisted-episodes","Does Podspun work with private or unlisted episodes?","\u003Cp>Podspun only pulls in your public episodes, but you still have control over what shows up. You can hide any episodes you don't want on your Podspun site, so even public videos can stay behind the curtain if you'd like.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":684,"question":685,"answerHtml":686},"wrong-or-missing-transcript","What if my transcript is wrong or missing?","\u003Cp>Podspun pulls the transcript from your source where one exists (YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or your RSS feed). When a source has no transcript, the Dataweaver transcribes the audio for you. If a word looks off, the cleanest fix is to correct it at the source so the next sync picks it up. If you connected by RSS or Apple Podcasts and need a correction, email us at \u003Ca href=\"mailto:hello@podspun.com\">hello@podspun.com\u003C\u002Fa> and we'll help.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":688,"question":689,"answerHtml":690},"why-wont-some-episodes-transcribe","Why do some episodes say they won't transcribe?","\u003Cp>A few episodes have no captions at the source and no audio Podspun can fetch to transcribe. The Dataweaver keeps retrying for about a week after import, then marks them so they stop holding up your channel's progress. The channel's Transcribed stat in \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Fchannels\">Podspun Dataweaver\u003C\u002Fa> shows the count. Those episodes still appear on your site; they just have no searchable transcript. If captions appear at the source later, a re-sync picks them up.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":692,"question":693,"answerHtml":694},"what-is-the-alerts-page","What is the Alerts page?","\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcloud.podspun.com\u002Faccount\u002Ftodos\">Alerts\u003C\u002Fa> is your account's to-do list: setup steps to finish (bring in a show, add a payment method, build a site), progress cards for builds that are running, and any billing issues that need attention, like a card that failed.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":696,"question":697,"answerHtml":698},"how-is-my-data-used-with-ai","How does Podspun use my data with AI?","\u003Cp>Podspun uses your data only to power AI questions in that session, and does not store the results.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":700,"question":701,"answerHtml":702},"will-my-youtube-ads-run","Will my YouTube video ads run on Podspun?","\u003Cp>Only when your source is YouTube, and only when the channel is set to Ads play. Each YouTube channel has a How videos play setting (in Podspun.com Setup) with three modes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Normal play uses our interactive player with the live synced transcript; YouTube does not run ads on that kind of player. Ads play uses YouTube's standard click-to-play player, which is the kind YouTube can run ads on, so pick this if ad revenue matters (the trade-off is the transcript no longer highlights live). Link out to YouTube sends viewers to YouTube to watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When ads do run, the revenue goes to YouTube and the video owner. Podspun does not add, control, sell, or take a share. Even on Ads play, YouTube decides ad availability play by play, so no single play is guaranteed an ad, and your video needs to be monetized in YouTube Studio.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":704,"question":705,"answerHtml":706},"if-i-leave-do-i-lose-anything","If I leave Podspun, do I lose anything?","\u003Cp>Your published episodes stay where they already live on YouTube, Apple, or your RSS host. Podspun reads from them, it does not hold them. Cancel a website or an API key any time and the underlying shows are still yours.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":708,"question":709,"answerHtml":710},"delete-my-account","How do I delete my account?","\u003Cp>You can deactivate channels within your account login. Or email us at \u003Ca href=\"mailto:hello@podspun.com\">hello@podspun.com\u003C\u002Fa> and we'll take care of it.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":712,"question":713,"answerHtml":714},"contact-for-billing-or-tech-issues","Who do I contact for billing or tech issues?","\u003Cp>Send a message to \u003Ca href=\"mailto:hello@podspun.com\">hello@podspun.com\u003C\u002Fa> and we'll help you out.\u003C\u002Fp>",{"slug":716,"title":717,"lead":718,"entries":719},"about","About Podspun","Who is behind Podspun and where it came from.",[720],{"slug":721,"question":722,"answerHtml":723},"who-built-podspun","Who built Podspun?","\u003Cp>Your friends at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpodspun.com\u002Fabout-us\">Heroic\u003C\u002Fa>. It began as a personal passion project built with great love. Podspun is a two-time Webby honoree, recognized at the 30th Annual Webby Awards for the innovations we build for creators.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Read more \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpodspun.com\u002Fabout-us\">about Podspun\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>"]