Besides being able to distribute the podcast via e.g. Spotify or Apple Podcasts, you can also share the podcast on your own website. How exactly you do this depends somewhat on what system you use to create/manage your website (e.g. WordPress, Joomla or completely self-created). This article therefore does not describe exactly how to share the podcast on your website, but mainly describes some options.

There are 2 ways to display/listen to the podcast on your own website:

Via the RSS feed
Via the Springcast embedded player

Via the RSS feed

With the RSS feed, you must have/make a player within your website in which you set up the RSS feed. This player retrieves all information about your podcast and episodes from our platform via the RSS feed. If someone plays an episode this way, the audio file is also retrieved from us and we register a download at that time. In principle - depending on the player plugin - you have complete freedom to set things up as you see fit.

If you use WordPress, this is a commonly used player: https://wordpress.org/plugins/podcast-player/

Via the embedded player

With the embedded player, you enable the Springcast player (like the one on your podcast website at Springcast) on your own website. The big advantage of this is that extensive statistics can also be created. For example, you can see when someone pauses/resumes the episode or how many listeners have listened to X% of your episode. To view these statistics, however, you need the Advanced subscription or higher.

With the embedded player, you actually have 3 options:

1. Embedded player at the show level. For this, you copy the embedded code and place it on a page on your website. This player allows you to listen to all published episodes of your podcast. Do you add a new episode? Then it will also appear automatically. By default, the most recent episode is always at the top of the player.
2. Embedded player at show level, but with custom playlist. You select a number of episodes here (possibly in a different order) and the embed code that comes out of this is placed on your website. Here, you decide which episodes are thus listenable via this embedded player. Useful if, for example, you discuss 2 topics in your podcast, each of which has several episodes. Then you can create two pages on your website, one for each subject, and place the specific embedded player there. When you add a new episode, it will not automatically show up in the embedded player. If you want to include the new episode in the previously created embedded player with custom playlist, you can create a new playlist or simply edit the existing embed code and add the ID of the new episode there.
3. Embedded player at episode level. This embedded player only contains the episode whose embed code you copied. You cannot play other episodes via this player and any new episodes you add will not be visible here either. Useful if, for example, you have a blog article about a certain subject. You can then specifically add the corresponding episode as a player.

For all options, the embedded player is standard in the Springcast house style, but if you purchase the Advanced subscription, you have the option to add some styling to this.