Episode 547 | Private Podcasting, Apple's Announcement, and Accelerating Growth with Craig Hewitt

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In Episode 547, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt about private podcasting, Apple's announcement around their subscription podcast offering as well as the accelerating growth of Castos. The topics we cover [1:22] Focusing on private podcasting at Castos [15:50] Mobile app for private podcasting [20:21] Apple's big announcement [28:08] Castos MRR growth Links from the show TinySeed Tales - Season 1 Seeking Scale Trustshoring Craig Hewitt (@thecraighewitt) | Twitter If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by clicking the link and sharing what you learned. Click here to share your number one takeaway from the episode. If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Welcome once again to startup for the rest of us.
0:02.6	I'm your host, Rob Walling, and this week we're talking with another ambitious bootstrapped
0:07.1	or mostly bootstrapped startup founder in this case.
0:09.5	It's Craig Hewitt.
0:10.1	He's back on the show.
0:11.3	You'll remember him from season one of Tiny Seat Tales, and he also hosts a couple of his own
0:16.5	podcast as well as being the founder of Castos.
0:20.1	Today we talk about private podcasting. We dig into
0:23.1	Apple's announcement around their subscription podcast offering, I'll call it, because it's not private
0:29.8	podcasting. It kind of is, but it's not, not really. And you'll hear us dig into the differences in
0:34.3	this episode, as well as the accelerating growth of castos. And we dig into that
0:39.6	in the last five, six minutes. And it's really interesting to hear Craig talk about why that's
0:45.5	happening. So with that, let's dive into my conversation with Craig Hewitt. Craig Hewitt. Thanks for
0:51.3	coming back on the show. Hey, Rob. Thanks for having me. Always good to have you, man.
0:55.6	I get positive feedback about our episodes.
0:58.1	Folks will remember you, of course, from Tiny Seatale Season 1, where we walked through
1:02.6	your journey back in.
1:04.4	I'm trying to even think now.
1:05.6	It was a bulk of 2019, I think, right?
1:08.1	And a little bit of 2020, Tiny C-Batch 1, you know, you run Castos, which is podcast hosting,
1:15.4	podcast production, and now private podcast hosting. That's it. Yep. And I'm really interested to dig in today
1:24.5	to start off with into this private podcasting stuff because for years, you know,
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