Everything we built in July has the same job: doing the work on your podcast website that you've been doing by hand.
Your episodes now file themselves into categories, write their own search copy as they import, and — new this month — can email your listeners the moment they go live. Here's the full rundown.
Episode Alerts: your site can email your listeners
You've been collecting email addresses on your site. Until now, doing anything with them meant exporting a CSV and pasting it into Mailchimp.
Episode Alerts closes that loop. Publish an episode, and everyone on your list gets an email about it — automatically, from your site, with your branding. The email is built from the episode itself: artwork, title, description, and play buttons for every app you're on. Your podcast's colors carry through to every button, so what lands in someone's inbox looks like your show.
Available on Pro (up to 500 emails a month) and Elite (up to 5,000). Your dashboard shows where you stand, and if a send would put you over your limit, we skip it rather than emailing half your list.
Find it under Autopilot → Email Listeners. If you've been building a list, you already have an audience waiting. Here's how Episode Alerts work.
Your episodes sort themselves now
Every new episode now gets filed into the right category the moment it imports.
Categories are the best tool you have for making a back catalog browsable. Someone lands on an episode about burnout, sees a Mental Health category, and suddenly they're three episodes deep instead of gone. Each category gets its own page that Google indexes separately, so they pull in new listeners too.
They also rot faster than anything else on your site. You set up eight categories in an afternoon, feel good about it, and six months later the last forty episodes are sitting in none of them. It's not hard work — it's just work that never ends, and it's invisible when you skip it.
So Podpage does it. Every episode that comes in from your feed gets read and filed based on what it's actually about. It's deliberately conservative: if an episode is a trailer, a one-off, or genuinely doesn't fit anything you've built, it stays uncategorized rather than getting shoved into the closest match. An empty slot is better than a wrong one.
Look for Add Categories in Autopilot. More on organizing episodes with categories.
SEO Boost writes the search copy for you
There's a layer of text on every episode page that your listeners never see and Google always does — the title and description that show up in results, a clean summary, key takeaways, and FAQs. Written well, it's the difference between an episode page that surfaces in search and one that doesn't. Written by hand, it's an hour per episode that nobody has.
SEO Boost writes all of it, automatically, as each episode imports. Two things worth knowing: it doesn't need a transcript, because Podpage can listen to your episode audio directly — so shows without transcripts still get takeaways and FAQs. And it never touches your show notes. It only adds to the parts of the page you don't write.
Read the full breakdown of SEO Boost.
Network sites: search, categories, and a Shows menu
If you run a network, your shows page got a lot more useful:
- Search and pagination on the shows list
- Group Shows by Category — one toggle, and your shows page organizes itself into sections
- A category page for every category, with its own real URL that Google can index
- A Shows dropdown in your nav that lets visitors jump straight to a category
Network homepages are now tuned for networks specifically, with the episode feed labeled “Recent Show Episodes.” More about Podpage Network sites.
Making sure AI assistants get your show right
More people are asking ChatGPT and Claude about podcasts than ever, and those tools read websites differently than humans do. Podpage now does that work for you, on every plan and with nothing to set up.
Your site automatically publishes the files AI assistants read to understand what your show is and who it's for. If you want to say something specific, there's now an AI & Agents section in your dashboard where you can write your own. Every page can also serve a clean, plain-text version of itself when an assistant asks for one — visitors still get your normal site.
How Podpage describes your show to AI assistants.
A faster site
We spent a chunk of July on load speed, which matters for both visitors and Google rankings. Fonts now load instantly, so your page renders in the right font the moment it appears. Video players, episode cards, and player icons hold their space from the start, so things stay put while the page loads. And embeds load lazily, so a page full of YouTube videos doesn't stall.
Better-looking links when your show gets shared
Review pages now get a properly designed share card — your show's colors, the star rating, your artwork, and the review text laid out cleanly. Episode share cards now use your full episode title instead of the shortened SEO version. More on your social preview image.
Everything else
- Smarter spam filtering. The filter on your Reviews and Contact forms now reads what was actually written, using your podcast's own name and description as context — so a genuine review doesn't get caught for using unusual words. Flagged reviews appear in your activity list with a “Possible spam” label so you can decide for yourself.
- The AI Blog Writer works on any topic. It used to require you to start from an episode. Now you can give it any topic — or ask it for topic ideas based on your show.
- Five features moved from Elite down to Pro: Private Feeds, Zapier, Guest Alerts, Downloadable Files, and Guest Attribution. The AI About Page Writer moved to Pro too.
- Your mailing list is easier to find — it's a top-level section in the dashboard now.
- No length limit on your homepage description. Write as much as you want.
- Video episodes use Podpage's own player, styled to match your site.
- Listener survey responses now appear in your dashboard activity feed.
- app-ads.txt is now supported alongside ads.txt, for anyone running ads.
- Dark mode polish across the voicemail popup, episode editing, and the dashboard sidebar.
Building podcast sites for other people? New this month: Podpage for Agencies and Podpage for Podcast Coaches.
