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Thumbnails That Stop the Scroll: Three Thumbnail and Title Pairs in PodGlue
PodGlue now makes YouTube thumbnails the way the top channels do: a real face and a few big words to stop the scroll, and a separate title to open the curiosity gap.
Read articleThe Clips You Never Saw: Two Quiet PodGlue Fixes
PodGlue was quietly throwing away good clip moments because the AI tidied up how people actually talk. That's fixed, and the episode menu no longer sits on top of what you're reading.
Read articleUpload the Whole Episode: Video Files Up to 20GB, and They Pick Up Where They Left Off
Most podcast recordings are bigger than 500MB. Now you can upload the whole thing to PodGlue, even a multi-gigabyte master, and if the upload gets interrupted it picks up where it stopped.
Read articleEdit Anywhere, Land in PodGlue: Your AI Assistant Can Now Add Episodes
I edited my new trailer in another app, and the hardest part was getting it back into PodGlue. Now your AI assistant can bring a finished video into your show as a draft episode, from a link.
Read articleThe PodGlue Phone App Was Quietly Wrong. Here's What I Fixed.
I went through PodGlue's iPhone app next to the web app and found a handful of things that looked fine and weren't. None of them showed an error. That was the problem.
Read articleBring Your Own Video: Upload It, Get the Transcript, Make the Clips
You no longer have to record in PodGlue to use your video in PodGlue. Upload the file you already have, and you get a transcript, clip suggestions and ready-to-post vertical clips in your show's colors.
Read articleWhy Studio Is Now a Beta Feature You Ask For
PodGlue's recording Studio and hosted feeds are the newest parts of the product. Instead of pretending they're finished, we've put them in a Beta Features section you opt into.
Read articleVerbs, Not Nouns: Tidying Up PodGlue's Sidebar
A beta tester pointed out that PodGlue's sidebar mixed verbs and nouns, and that the Planner talked to itself instead of to you. Both were right.
Read articleUploading Your Logo Shouldn't Erase Your Show
A bug in PodGlue's settings meant uploading a new cover or logo quietly cleared your show's feed link and booking page address. It's fixed.
Read articleThe Page That Gave Everything Away and Asked for Nothing
I built a free guide that teaches AI to write like you. Then I noticed a visitor could finish all six prompts and I'd never know they existed. Here's what I changed.
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Explore the concept of podcast relationship management. Learn why CRMs are ineffective for podcasters and how PodGlue offers a tailored solution.
Read articleThe Day the Tolerance Ran Out
Doreca Delbridge told me her tolerance for things she doesn't enjoy started going down the year she turned forty. Three years later she's still redesigning her business around that. It's the most honest framing of a creator's career I've heard this year.
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Adam Bird watched the PodGlue book builder for ninety seconds and said it should be a standalone product. He's probably right. That doesn't mean I'm doing it yet.
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Instacart raised $44M and I quietly stopped building. Twelve years later, a $425M creator economy raise is teaching me the same lesson, except this time I'm not putting the laptop down.
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Transcription is just the start of the work, not the end. If you want to stop juggling five different apps and start building real relationships with your guests, you need more than just a transcript.
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Most podcasters solve for the recording, but the real bottleneck is the workflow. Here is how Podcastle and PodGlue stack up when you are building a relationship-driven show.
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Descript is great for editing audio, but a podcast is about more than just a media file. It's about the relationships you build and the systems that keep you from becoming the bottleneck.
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Notion is a great tool, but it wasn't built for the specific friction of running a podcast. Here’s why I moved my workflow into a system designed for relationships, not just databases.
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If you have 50+ podcast episodes, you’re already sitting on enough content for five books. Here is the math behind your podcast IP and how to stop letting your best insights gather dust.
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Most podcasters are on a treadmill of transactional content. Here is how to build a PRM flywheel that turns guest relationships into compounding growth.
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If you're trying to force a sales CRM to handle your podcast guests, you're fighting a losing battle. Here is why traditional tools fail podcasters, and what it actually looks like to put relationships first.
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I had 300+ episodes of Hacks & Hobbies sitting in a digital vault. Here’s how I finally unlocked that content and turned it into a book manuscript in 45 minutes.
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Stop leaving your podcast quality to chance. Episode Planner V2.1 introduces Input-First Archetypes to help you move from manual chaos to a structured, professional workflow.
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Your time is an obligation, and you shouldn't be wasting it on booking emails and show notes. Here is how we built PodGlue to fix the five biggest time-sucks in your workflow.
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