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CastGhost, step by step

Short videos of the real app, one for each step, from setting up your profile to recording a published episode.

Get started

Set up your profile and pitch niches, add credit, connect your Gmail, and find help when you need it.

Setting up your profile 3:12

1. Setting up your profile

Set up your profile one step at a time: add your name and sign-off, bring in your work, check the answers CastGhost fills in, and approve your bio and topics.

Pitch niches and talking points 2:18

2. Pitch niches and talking points

Pick your first pitch niche, review the talking points CastGhost finds in your work, add your own, and approve how you sound.

Adding credit and how it's used 2:28

3. Adding credit and how it's used

What's free, what a pitch costs, and how to add credit. Adding credit unlocks contacts and pitch drafting.

Connecting Gmail, your signature and reply tracking 3:12

4. Connecting Gmail, your signature and reply tracking

Connect the Gmail your pitches are sent from, add your email signature, and set up the filter that lets a host's reply stop the follow-ups.

The Help menu 1:03

5. The Help menu

Act on a health check, ask the help assistant a question, report a bug, or copy a diagnostic report.

Find shows

Search for podcasts that fit you, and fill in the contacts that need a person to find.

Finding podcasts 3:19

6. Finding podcasts

Search your niche for live shows that fit, see why each one scored as it did, and choose which to pitch.

When a contact needs you 2:06

7. When a contact needs you

Why some show contacts can't be found automatically, and where CastGhost tells you to look.

Pitch and follow up

Edit each pitch until it sounds like you, send it from your Gmail, and follow up when a show goes quiet.

Drafting and editing pitches 3:29

8. Drafting and editing pitches

Review each draft and what it was built from, edit it or ask for a redraft, and send or schedule it from your Gmail.

How follow-ups work 3:43

9. How follow-ups work

When follow-ups are drafted, how they go out in the same thread, and how to record a reply or a booking.

After the interview

What to do when a show records your episode, and again when it goes live.

When your episode is recorded and published 2:11

10. When your episode is recorded and published

What to do when a show records your interview, and again when the episode goes live.

Settings

What each part of Settings controls, and when you'd change it.

Writing settings and your link library 2:39

11. Writing settings and your link library

Who your pitches are written by, the pitch writer, your link library and your pitch style rules.

Show matching settings 1:24

12. Show matching settings

The score a show needs to be ready to pitch, the rules for shows to skip, and the log of score changes.

Data & privacy settings 1:18

13. Data & privacy settings

Download every show CastGhost researched for you, and choose whether contacts you add are shared.

Appearance settings 1:29

14. Appearance settings

Switch between the Night and Cream themes, and choose how cards are laid out: grid, carousel or stack.

Start free

Set up your profile and see the shows that fit you before you spend anything.

Sign up free

Questions first? Read the FAQ or email simon@castghost.com.