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Captivate Assistant is the most innovative podcasting AI assistant ever, it’s still available to each and every Captivate Podcaster, and it’s still changing the way you podcast every single day.

We’ve given it a more descriptive new name and a nice little facelift to bring it in line with all the brand new products we’re releasing over the next few quarters: Captivate Assistant looks so much better next to Captivate Ads and Captivate Studio, and we want your dashboard to look as sleek as possible.

What is Captivate Assistant?

Captivate Assistant is a fully integrated AI assistant, offering as much assistance with your podcast as you’d like. We’re giving you the tools to drastically reduce the time spent in your podcasting workflow and to make your audience growth, podcast discoverability and creator marketing easier than ever before.

Your production workflow optimizer.

It’s is not only the most advanced podcasting AI tool out there, it’s the most Captivate AI tool out there. That means inventive, intuitive features that you didn’t know you needed, making your life easier in ways you never expected.

Cut your podcasting workflow in half and generate more attractive episodes!

Automatic transcription

When you enable Captivate Assistant for an episode, the first thing it will do is transcribe your audio file for you. You can select the number of speakers to make sure it’s accurate, and it’s super easy to edit the transcript directly within Captivate right away.

Transcripts are great for podcasts because they make them more accessible, and infinitely more searchable, making your show a whole lot more SEO friendly. Plus, Apple Podcasts now supports transcripts right out of the box!

Attention grabbing episode title suggestions

Captivate Assistant will analyze your audio file and suggest catchy, SEO-friendly, clickable episode titles for you. There’s also the ability to provide extra, contextual information you’d like Captivate Assistant to consider when suggesting your titles.

Episode show notes and other episode-level suggestions

It will then analyze your file and suggest:

• An intro summary
• Up to 3 versions of show notes options
• Key takeaways from your episode to use on social media
• Chapter breaks, titles, and their timestamps
• Complete SEO assets for Google, YouTube & more

You can then select which of these options you like, click them and immediately pull them into your normal episode workflow. It couldn’t be quicker or easier!

AMIE + Captivate Assistant

Dynamic ad & content insertion is becoming more familiar to every serious podcaster and AMIE, Captivate’s dynamic content engine, is the best around.

When publishing an episode, Captivate Assistant will

• Analyse your audio
• Suggest suitable ad breaks based on your content cadence, relevant talking points and natural, contextual breaks in conversation
• Allow you to instantly add AMIE ad slots to your audio timeline with one click

No more forgetting to leave a suitable ad or promotional break in your content, Captivate Assistant will do it for you!

Accelerate your audience growth with podcast episodes that hit the mark for your listeners, every time

Not only can Captivate Assistant help with your day-to-day admin, it will actually help you with creating new episodes, analyzing what’s working with your show right now and spotting trends in your niche that you can capitalise on.

New episode suggestions

When enabled, it will look at what your podcast is all about, what you’ve already covered and who you’ve interviewed, and will then suggest what you should do next. Never again will you be stuck for what to talk about in your next episode.

Guest suggestion

Captivate Assistant will look at who you’ve already spoken to and research interesting and emerging figures in your chosen niche, and use this information to give you ideas as to who you should be inviting on your podcast next. It will even give you some questions to ask them, too.

Trend analysis

As if topics and guests weren’t enough, Captivate Assistant will analyze your recent episodes analytics, alongside wider research, let you know what topics are particularly popular at the moment and give you ideas of what to cover in your next episode.

Next steps

Read about Captivate’s other huge features, like our in-house monetization tools and our unmatched dynamic ad insertion technology!