Overview
What is Gabcast?
Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.
What Can I Do With Gabcast?
- You can embed a flash audio player into your personal or corporate website/blog and communicate with your friends/family/colleagues/customers
- You can voice your political opinions or use it as part of a political campaign
- You can record Greetings
- You can be a Citizen Reporter
- You can conduct Interviews
- You can use it as an Educational Tool
- You can use it for Get-togethers
- You can Speak Your Mind
- You can use it to describe an item for sale on Ebay (Show Me!)
What Do I Get?
| Feature | Description |
| Upload Episodes | Upload podcasts to your Gabcast channel |
| Hidden Channel | This option allows the channel owner to hide their channel. A hidden channel will not appear on the Gabcast main page nor will it be returned in a search or available by browsing categories |
| Hidden Episodes | This option allows the channel owner to hide individual episodes. Hidden episodes will not appear on the Gabcast main page nor will it be returned in a search or available by browsing categories |
| Enhanced Publishing Features | This option allows the channel owner to prevent episodes from being published via the phone and offers the owner to be notified by email when a new post is saved in the channel |
| Password Protected Channel/Episodes | This option allows the channel owner to request credentials from their subscribers in order for the subscribers to listen to the content |
| Player & MP3 Branding | Our Flash-based MP3 player can be skinned with your own graphic/logo. Your own image can be inserted into created MP3 files (ID3 album art) and can be displayed in media players like the iPod/iTunes and WMP |
| VoIP Recording | 120 mins/episode. VoIP recording is FREE! |
| Telephone Recording | 120 mins/episode. |
| Automatic RSS Feeds | Gabcast automatically creates a newsfeed for each of your channels. |
| Blog Integration | Gabcast can post audio content to your blog. We integrate with popular blogging software like Blogger, TypePad and WordPress. |
| Include Remote Episodes in Feed | If you have an episode that is hosted somewhere else - no problem! You can provide the URL/link to the remotely hosted MP3 file in order to have it included in your Gabcast channel newsfeed. |
How Do I Get Started?
Signup & Login
Signup and Login to the website.
Create a channel
Purchase Minutes for Telephone Recording
You must have minutes available to your account before you can use our telephone recording features. Minute Packs can be purchased by credit card
once you have become a member.
Telephone access is just $0.10/min - there are no other costs involved.
We provide everyone with 5 minutes of free telephone access to test out our service.
Telephone access is just $0.10/min - there are no other costs involved.
We provide everyone with 5 minutes of free telephone access to test out our service.
Record an episode
Call one of the Gabcast access numbers:
Tag
Tag your episode to make it easier to recognize and to make it searchable!
Publish
Publish your recording, either via the phone, or via your My Account page
That's it!
Subscribers to your channel will be notified via this website, iTunes, web portals, rss clients, and email.