July 2026 Changelog

• Video episodes now play with a full control set — fullscreen, playback speed, and picture-in-picture.
• Reviews and contact form messages are checked by a smarter spam filter, and anything it flags is listed in your activity so you can review it.
• Contact form messages can be up to 5,000 characters, up from 2,000.
• Preview any current template in light or dark mode right from the template picker before you switch to it.
• If you run app monetization, Podpage now serves app-ads.txt alongside ads.txt, with more room for larger files.

Email List moved out from under Engage Listeners into its own top-level section, with Setup, Subscribers, Signup Incentives, and Episode Alerts all together under one roof. Signup incentives also got simpler: set a file or a link and Podpage figures out the rest.

Look for Email List in the main dashboard sidebar.

The Design menu went from a dozen separate pages down to a handful. Design now holds the settings most people actually change — colors, fonts, navigation, footer, cards — with Advanced Design holding everything else alongside the essentials. Promotional Popups moved in as its own section with a live preview, and Navigation and Footer each live in one place.

Change Site Template and Home Page are still one click away from the Design page, and from the quick-switcher inside the page editor.

If you run a network of shows on Podpage, visitors can now search across your entire network — shows, episodes, videos, blog posts, and pages — from a single search box. Your Shows page is also paginated, so even large networks load quickly.

You can additionally turn on Group Shows by Category in the Shows page editor to organize your shows list into category sections instead of one long grid, with a matching dropdown in your site's navigation.

Episode Alerts is now open to everyone on Pro and Elite. Turn it on and Podpage emails your subscriber list the moment a new episode is imported, and handles delivery, unsubscribes, and bounce tracking for you. Pro includes up to 500 recipients per episode, Elite up to 5,000.

The alert email itself has also been redesigned, with a cleaner layout, brand-colored listen-on-your-favorite-app buttons, and a call-to-action button that matches your site's colors.

Turn it on under Email List → Episode Alerts.

Podpage publishes a few standard files that let AI tools and agents understand your site — agents.json and llms.txt — and you can now write your own custom versions of both, replacing the auto-generated content entirely. This is available on every plan.

Find them under the new AI & Agents section in the dashboard, alongside an overview page explaining how agents connect to your Podpage site.

You can now start a blog post from a topic instead of an episode — describe what you want to write about and Podpage will suggest an outline, or ask it for a list of topic ideas based on your podcast as a whole. The original flow that turns one episode into a post still works exactly the same.

Open Write Blog Post in the Assistant to try it.

Pro Features and Elite Features now each have their own usage-status page, sorting every feature you're entitled to into three groups: what you have turned on, what's ready to turn on, and what you haven't tried yet — with a progress bar summarizing where you stand.

If you're not sure whether you're getting full value from your plan, this is the fastest way to check. Find it under Pro Features or Elite Features in the dashboard.

The AI Assistant can now write a full guest biography for you. It pulls together your guest's existing profile and what they talked about on their last couple of episode appearances, then drafts a polished bio — telling you exactly what's missing if there isn't enough to work with yet. Nothing saves automatically; you always review and edit the draft first.

Look for Write Guest Bio in the Assistant. Available on Elite.

The Assistant can now write your About page for you, grounded in your show's real summary and episode history rather than generic filler — it even links back to specific episodes it draws on. You get a draft to review and edit before anything is saved to your site.

Find it in the Assistant nav. Available on Pro and above.

The dashboard sidebar has been redesigned. It groups related pages together, shows a checkmark next to Autopilot automations you've already turned on, and adds a proper mobile menu: a top bar with a hamburger icon that slides the full navigation in from the side.

Nothing you need to do — you'll just see it the next time you log in.

Five features that used to need Elite are now part of the Pro plan:

• Private feed support — point your site's players at your private or premium feed.
• Downloadable files — offer bonus files your listeners can't get anywhere else.
• Guest alerts — email your guests when the episode they're on goes live.
• Export guest data — take your guest list into the tools you already use.
• Zapier — connect your Podpage site to thousands of other apps.

If you're on Pro, they're already switched on for you — nothing to set up. Elite keeps everything it had. Compare plans at podpage.com/pricing.