You can completely transform the look and feel of your Embed Player easily and quickly to fit the aesthetic of your podcast's website with the customizations available through your Acast dashboard.
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Episodic display
Color customization
How many episodes would you like to display?
You may want to display just one or multiple episodes on any given page of your website. If you're preparing episodic show notes, just one may make sense. Or, if you're preparing a page to cite your sources in a series, two to five episodes may be a better idea. Our embed customization makes it so easy to display as few or as many episodes as you'd like!
Take My Dad Wrote a Porno, for example. Their entire website is clean, fresh and incorporates the color scheme of their show art. This is reflected perfectly in their embed player, customized to match the colors on this page, where the entire catalog is displayed. Notice that you can listen to any episode, follow, and share all from one spot.
Color customization
When retrieving your embed code you may notice that the default coloring (that is displayed on your dashboard) does not always fit the look of your site. You can easily change the color customization of your Embed Player with just a few clicks:
1. Go to Embed Player>Settings>Style and apply the desired color codes to get the exact colors you'd like.
The Embed Player color customization could also be a great tool to utilize if you're participating in cross-promotion with other creators. If you've been asked to be a guest on another show that regularly creates episodic blog posts, provide them an embed code for your latest episode, customized to match the colors of their website for them to share.
Listen later
A great new feature on the Embed player is the "Listen later" feature. Sometimes, when scrolling the web, a potential listener may stumble upon your embed player on your website or a collaborator's and not be able to listen at that very moment. Now they can simply email themselves a reminder to tune back in at your show Embed Player a later time by clicking the "Listen later" feature.
Draft your embed for later
Just as you can create draft episodes in your dashboard, you can now create a draft embed player following these steps:
1. Once the episode audio is uploaded, you can create your customizable embed player.
2. Then, you may take the embed code to place in your draft blog post, website, or wherever you're planning to share the player.
Please note, the link will not work until the episode has been published.
Advanced features
To make sure you have the exact right look you are going for with your website, Acast offers a few more advanced features, such as Google fonts. Some websites, especially those focused on the fine arts or literature, may use a very specific font on their website.
To choose from over a hundred different fonts follow these steps:
1. Go to your Embed Player settings>"Custom Fonts"
2. Check the box that reads "Use Google Fonts"
Fixed embed players
The embed code provided by Acast is automatically static. This means, that when you scroll through your page, the embed will no longer appear on screen (though you will still hear it). If a fixed embed player, like how it appears on your customizable Acast website, fits your aesthetic better, here's a quick tutorial on how to achieve this look.