Yes, of course! Whether you published too soon, or changed your mind about publishing the episode, you can unpublish or delete it through Acast at any time.
Unpublishing will remove the episode from your podcast feed, but it will still be accessible on your dashboard on draft status.
Deleting will remove the episode from your podcast feed, and also permanently remove it from Acast. This is not reversible.
How to unpublish an episode?
Log in to Acast and click on the show that contains the episode you want to delete.
Select the episode and go to Publish Settings.
Scroll down to Danger Zone.
Click Unpublish. This action will remove the episode from your feed and change its status of this episode to draft.
Episodes set as drafts will disappear from the Episodes section in Insights dashboard, and downloads will no longer be visible. Yet the data in Insights won´t update, therefore downloads for draft episodes will remain in the count.
If you decide to publish the episode again in the future, the episode data will remain and it will appear again in the platforms to which you distribute the show. The episode will not appear as a duplicate - this is because the GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) of the episode has not changed after being republished.
How to delete an episode?
Log in to Acast and click on the show that contains the episode you want to delete.
Select the episode and go to Publish Settings.
Scroll down to Danger Zone.
Click Delete button. In doing so, this will remove the episode from both Acast and your podcast feed permanently.
I uploaded the wrong audio file! Can I change the audio without un-publishing or deleting the episode?
The answer is YES! There's no need to delete or unpublish if you want to swap the audio file for an episode.
Log in to Acast and click on the show that contains the episode with file that you want to delete.
In the Episode details, click Change Audio button and select the new MP3 file, upload and wait for it to encode completely.
Click Next Publish Settings, then Save.
Although listeners who've already downloaded the episode won't get your updated audio, any new listeners who download or stream the episode will get the new audio once you've completed the steps above.