Home of the Setting the Stage podcast and the Cimmeria campaign setting

GoCorral

Podcast Hosting/Distribution

Published by

Isaac

on

After recording my first episode of Setting the Stage I needed a place to host the RSS feed so that people could download the episodes.

My first thought was hosting on the blog right here. WordPress has options for that and they’re pretty cheap, coming along with other upgrades to the website (fewer ads slapped between paragraphs in blog posts).

But… I’m a cheapskate and wanted to start the podcast off with zero upfront investment. That meant delving into free hosting solutions. Lots of hosting services have free or trial plans. The trial plans have the obvious issue of having to pay for them eventually. The free plans have other restrictions, like how many episodes you can upload or how long each episode can be.

After reading the terms for about ten different websites I settled on ACast. Their free plan has no meaningful restrictions. The only negatives I could identify were no mobile support for managing the podcast and the paid plans are a bit more expensive than other hosting services.

So with a hosting site locked down the next step was distribution. ACast hosts the podcast, but your podcast app isn’t searching every hosting site for podcasts, it searches distribution lists like Apple Podcasts or Amazon Music.

Getting onto those lists is actually quite easy once I had an account with ACast. Four of them (Samsung, Podchaser, JioSaavn, and Deezer) are automatically submitted. Two others (Spotify and Amazon Music) I submitted with a button click on ACast’s website. The final four (Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher) I had to create accounts on those websites to submit them, but ACast had links that took me to the right place without having to search.

Getting accepted into the distribution lists happened within a few hours, but the final step of getting indexed in the search function of different apps took about half a week.

So now Setting the Stage is searchable on all podcast apps and I can just tell people to search for it instead of giving them a huge link: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/setting-the-stage-campaigns-for-dd-and-other-rpgs

Want to be on the show? Fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/U11TbxtAReHFKbiVA
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/p97dfEauFj
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage

Leave a comment

Hello,

I’m Isaac

Welcome to the GoCorral website! I’m Isaac Shaker and this is a place for me to write about D&D and occasionally other topics. I host a podcast called Setting the Stage that interviews different DMs about their campaigns. I’m currently focused on completing the Cimmeria campaign setting and turning it into a book.

Setting the Stage Podcast

78 – D&D in Suburbia (Ryan and Serenity Springs) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs

Ryan tells us about his new adventure, Serenity Springs! It's a cozy little suburb. Or at least it seems like it at first. Until you realize its in a dimension like Ravenloft and evil entities lurk around every corner to threaten the citizens and visitors with awful, gruesome death. Just don't bleed on Mrs. Dotty's petunias!You can follow the Kickstarter for Serenity Springs at this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grinningportal/serenity-springs-campaign-setting-for-fantasy-ttrpgs?ref=7ob6pyIf you'd like to know more about Ryan's other projects you can check out his website: https://grinningportalgames.com/And you can follow Grinning Portal Games on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/grinningportal.bsky.socialOur website: https://gocorral.com/stsWant to be on the show? Fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/U11TbxtAReHFKbiVAJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/p97dfEauFjSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
  1. 78 – D&D in Suburbia (Ryan and Serenity Springs)
  2. 77 – KPop DnD Hunters (Dan and Idols of the Neon Dark)
  3. 76 – Flying Island Worlds (Alan and Fractus)
  4. 75 – Masks, Capitalism, and Coming of Age (Joel and Critical Bits)
  5. 74 – Kylie and Fallout: Garden of Atom

Join the fun!

Stay updated with the latest podcast episodes and posts by joining our newsletter.

Recent posts