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Simplecast Reviews & Product Details
Simplecast is best known for its advanced analytics feature and a comprehensive toolset that allows users to easily uncover data about their audience. With Simplecast, listeners can share clips of their podcasts on social media easily using Recast. Users can also develop websites, apps, and dashboards using Simplecast API 2.0. Different podcasts with multiple collaborators under a single account. Creating a website for your podcast is easy and simple using their intuitive drag-and-drop builder, You can also migrate your podcast show to Simplecast with a simple click.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
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| Languages | English |
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SimpleCast which is now SAM Cast supports streaming in MP3, mp3PRO, Ogg and WM9 (Windows Media 9), which is very positive for me. I can encode audio in multiple bitrates and multiple formats for multiple types of servers simultaneously. It also supports SHOUTcast server.
One of the disavantages is that there is a delay while streaming. I've observed the delay reached around 95 seconds, which is really an abnormal value when we are talking about live broadcasting.
I am able to broadcast live audio from events and live poadcasts, like a real radio broadcaster. Furthermore, it is possible to know in real time how many people are listening to your stream. And I use these to interact with people.
Simple platform, easy to get up and running, easy to publish podcasts
Podcast site goes down all the time without any notice or explanation. They can't seem to keep their custom domain feature working. I went with Simplecast primarily for the custom domain and custom site function - and it does not work reliably. Deal breaker - I'm now looking for a replacement
Simple way to publish a podcast. I've realized the benefit of that, except the site doesn't work reliably. That's a deal breaker for me. I've used them for over a year, they've had time to keep their web site serving up and fix reliability issues and haven't done it.
We chose Simplecast because they're easy to use and reasonably priced, offered unique social sharing functionality (Recast), and were recommended to us by another podcaster.
We were promised that the new version of the Simplecast platform would eliminate the downsides we saw (limited analytics, etc.) when we first subscribed, and that it would be delivered about a month after we signed on. That initial promise was for delivery in August of 2018. It's now April of 2019, and we STILL don't have the new version (though others do, and all new members have it by default). I've had to reach out to support several times to get updated timelines, and they've always under-promised and missed their own updated deadlines, requiring me to reach out repeatedly. Finally, I've been told that we can be migrated, but it comes with several caveats no one warned us about beforehand (including limited sponsor visibility in the new platform, which we can't reconcile for our sponsors because they've been promised more; removed support for custom CSS on our podcast website via SImplecast; and others). As a marketer for a software company, it baffles me how much misinformation we've been fed about this release -- from the timeline (which is now 8 MONTHS off of what we were first promised) to the migration process and the limitations of the new setup. At this point I have very little trust in the Simplecast team, and thus can't in good conscience recommend them to others. We've invested in this platform and it appears we're stuck with a dud until they get their development roadmap together.
We have a platform for publishing a professional podcast, sharing to popular podcast apps/channels, and housing our shows.