Yesterday, we officially announced our new transcript hosting service, Transcript Host. And were we ever ready to finally have our new service live. This was like trying to go to bed on the night before Christmas.
Anyway, wait until you you realize how helpful this will be – you’ll be sprinting, not running over to TranscriptHost.com.
#1 Accessibility
How do people with disabilities (e.g., people who are deaf or hard of hearing) access your content? If your content is pure audio like a podcast, people with hearing disabilities probably don’t.
By making your content more flexible (another way to access), you open up your audience.
#2 Easy Place to Publish Your Transcript
We’ve written about this previously in our where to put your transcript blog post – there’s no obvious place to put a full transcript (whether for a podcast or anything else).
- It really doesn’t fit on your website (and you likely don’t want it to for SEO reasons, see: crawl budget)
- Linking to individual platforms (e.g., Pod Bean, Buzz Sprout, etc.) means it comes with their own page branding. And they’re not really meant for transcript hosting anyway, they’re for podcast publishing.
- Podcast platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts aren’t accessible unless you have their app and the formatting is their formatting which doesn’t always work
#3 Convenient Share-ability
So there wasn’t a place to publish your transcript, but now there’s a centralized location where you can easily publish your full transcript, no matter how long it is.
And all you need to do is simply link to it from wherever your media is (show notes, video description, embedded on a web page, etc.) and you’ve got a transcript for that audio or video.
#4 SEO and Findability
Hey guess what – there are potential SEO benefits here. What if someone is searching for a specific topic that your podcast, webinar, etc. just so happens to cover, but because it’s detailed and you aren’t able to cram it in your title, no one knows your discussion exists?
If you publish on Transcript Host, now you open your episodes up to being found in Google and Bing. Also, Transcript Host itself functions as its own separate searchable portal for all types of content. Once the platform gets big enough, people will start searching for the content they’re after on the site.
#5 Private Posts
But we also recognize the flip side: maybe you don’t want the contents of your company webinar posted all over the Internet. Maybe you just want a place where your employees can have access to a clean copy of the transcript for the webinar.
Great news again: You can make your posts private so that only people with a link have access to the transcript.
#6 Read Mode
What’s a coffee shop without the coffee shop aura and atmosphere? And on that note, what’s fine reading if you can’t really enjoy it.
Yeah, we added the ability to change font size and switch to dark mode directly on the transcript page. You know, just for that little extra for those who want the coffee aroma swirling around them.
#7 RePurpose Your Content, Yet Again
We all know that one video can mean you have a podcast, a clips channel, and a blog post all-in-one, but how about the text version of that content, too.
There are levels to this game, and you’re taking it up a notch. It’s yet another way that people can find your delightful content and consume more of your brand and channel.
Bonus Benefits
- Branding – you can link to your show and your show episode’s directly from the transcript page.
- Custom URLs – you can create your own desired vanity URL slugs from Transcript Host.
- Our brand tells your audience what to expect – this is the host for our transcript.
- Searchable and scannable. Control+F my friends and someone can quickly locate what they’re looking for.
- This is for any type of content: webinars, podcasts, instruction videos, radio shows, conferences, presentations, speeches, interviews, news stories, announcements – and the list goes on.
Wait, what was that magical website again?
TranscriptHost.com – sign up today and start cooking up more content.
