Sharing your podcast episode to Twitter with the Captivate podcast player
Our player has been designed to work perfectly with Twitter! This means you can add simple, great looking and highly-functional podcast players to your Tweets to make it even easier for your would-be listeners. Yay!
To post a Captivate podcast player to Twitter:
Log in to your Captivate dashboard.
Click Episodes from the left hand menu under the Content Management section.
Click the Share icon at the side of the episode you want to share.
A new window will open, cliFew readersCan I use my own embeddable podcast player?
TL;DR
When using a third-party player, please ensure that you do not have `autoplay` in your HTML5 player and `preload="none"` is also set.
Using our awesome Captivate player is super, super, simple and it guarantees you're hitting all the right standards and ensuring that your downloads are IAB compliant.
Let’s get our geek on... Oh, and it has a ton of features that we’d hate you to miss out on, including in-built calls to action!
The vast majority of podFew readersCustomizing your Captivate podcast player
It's time to make the player look and work exactly how you want it to.
To create your customized Captivate podcast player:
Login to your Captivate dashboard.
Click Podcast Player from the left hand menu under the Design heading.
Here you'll see a whole range of customization options available to you:
Style Preview: This will update in real-time as you make changes to your player design, and can be interacted with as a complete player right from your dashboard.
****ChoFew readersHow to Choose the Right Embed Player for Your Podcast Website
When it comes to listening to podcasts, embeddable web players are perfect, since they offer multiple benefits:
You can use them on any site that supports HTML embeds (or oEmbeds, depending on the platform)
You can make it easy for listeners who don't feel comfortable using podcast apps
Note: to embed on Wordpress.com sites, you need to be on their Business or eCommerce plan.
Captivate makes it super easy for you to use the embed code for our web playersFew readersManually embedding the Captivate podcast player on your custom website
We designed the Captivate embeddable podcast player to look amazing on any website, on any screen. But, we also made it really, really easy to embed, too with web standard embed codes and oEmbed compatibility.
Do you have a WordPress website?
Captivate Sync™ is Captivate's free WordPress podcasting plugin that allows you to easily link your WordPress website to your Captivate podcast hosting account, and seamlessly publish from one platform to the other whilst keeping everything syncFew readersUsing calls to action within your Captivate podcast player
You can add call to action buttons to your Captivate podcast player so your listeners can directly respond to your calls to action. Common uses include links to lead magnets & donation websites such as Patreon.
To add your calls to action:
Login to your Captivate dashboard.
Click Calls-to-action from the left hand menu under the Promotion heading.
Add your call-to-action links.
Click Save Changes.
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