Castopod

🎉 Happy New Year 2026! 🎊

As we enter this new year, we want to extend our warmest thanks to our community who supports and engages with Castopod. Your trust and feedback fuel our mission every day.

A message to all podcasters: Keep creating in 2026! And to those considering starting a podcast: give it a try. Podcasting remains one of the last social networks not entirely controlled by a big corporation. In a world dominated by algorithms, we need diversity and authentic voices.

2025 was a milestone year for Castopod:
⬆️ 1,000 active podcasts hosted on our platform
⬆️ Over 43,000 episodes published
⬆️ 800+ GitHub stars
⬆️ 30+ language translations by 70+ volunteer translators
⬆️ 200+ contributors to the project

Thank you to every podcaster who trusts us with hosting their creation. Your confidence means everything to us.

Looking ahead to 2026: We're preparing exciting new features and improvements. Stay tuned for announcements!

🇧🇪 We'll be at FOSDEM in Brussels – come meet the team and discuss the future of open-source podcasting.
👉 Social Web DevRooom
👉 Audio, Video & Graphics Creation DevRoom

Here's to a year of digital sovereignty, open source innovation, and independent media creation! 🚀

🎉 Apple Podcasts now supports chapters—including the Podcasting 2.0 tag!

This is the second time Apple has embraced a community-driven standard (after transcripts in March 2024), proving that the "not-invented-here" syndrome is NOT a fatality.

Chapters + transcripts = better discoverability, accessibility, and search for the entire podcast ecosystem.

The network effect is beginning. 🚀

Read more on the Castopod blog:

Apple Podcasts Embraces Chapters: Another Victory for Podcasting 2.0 Apple Podcasts' adoption of the Podcasting 2.0 chapters standard proves that community-driven, open specifications can triumph over proprietary solutions—and marks another milestone in making podcasts more discoverable and accessible for everyone.

🎙️ Catch Castopod at the IBC - International Broadcasting Convention 2024 this Saturday in Amsterdam!

Benjamin Bellamy will be presenting "Castopod in 5 Minutes: Open-Source Podcast Hosting" as part of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Open Source Meetup.

Whether you’re an indie podcaster or running a multi-show network, Castopod is the open-source platform that gives you control over your content, audience, analytics…

🗓️ When: Saturday, 14 September 2024, 16:00 CEST
📍 Where: EBU stand (10.D21) at IBC Amsterdam

Discover how Castopod can power your podcasting journey with features like Podcasting 2.0, Fediverse integration, built-in analytics, and more!

And don’t miss the full Open Source Meetup lineup – it’s packed with innovative projects for media and broadcasting!
👉️ Catena Media presented by Chris Lennon (Ross Video)
👉️ Using video.js by Kemal Görgülü (ARTE)
👉️ MediaConch by the amazing Jerome Martinez (MediaArea)
👉️ Open Source DAB SPI creator with radio die-hard Nick Piggott (Opendigitalradio)
👉️ Time-addressable Media Stores (TAMS) - Sam Mesterton-Gibbons (BBC R&D)
👉️ SCTE-35 and MABR with GPAC - with Nils Duval (Motion Spell)
👉️ C2PA - presented by Kenneth Warmuth (WDR)
👉️ ADM software and libraries - Matt Firth (BBC R&D/EBU)
👉️ Adding NGA (ADM and S-ADM) tracks to IMF packages with IMF Tool - Wolfgang Ruppel (Hochschule RheinMain)
👉️ NMOS and Chill: kickstart your implementation with sender and receiver code - Pedro Ferreira (Bisect)

Plus, free drinks and great networking opportunities await.

💬 See you at IBC!