Users wanting to promote their music on the Internet now have a new tool at their disposal. Podbean.com is pleased to announce the "eStore" feature, allowing podcasters to upload and sell their digital music files on Podbean’s secure server. The Podbean eStore makes it easy to upload and manage your music files right from your Podbean account and with just a few clicks, you can create a secure and fully functional shopping cart and sell your music to the public.

This exciting new eStore feature is free to users with any premium Podbean account (Basic Plus and up). There’s no set up fee, no monthly service charges and no minimum sales required. Podbean.com will only charge 3% of each completed transaction so you don’t pay until you get paid.

To get more information and start selling your MP3’s online, visit http://faq.podbean.com/category/cat_h/.

Podbean Announces Custom Domain for Podcasters

Podcasters now have one more reason to smile. Podbean.com has announced a new customized domain feature, allowing account holders to use their own domain for podcast publishing. For just $9 per year(75 cents per month), users can set their podcast URL to a private domain - http://podcast.mydomain.com - instead of the generic http://username.podbean.com. This new custom domain feature allows podcasters the ability to extend their site’s look and feel to their podcasts, promoting branding and publisher recognition. You can build on this recognition by offering your listeners a way to subscribe to your podcast service. Just point them to your new customized feed at http://podcast.mydomain.com/feed.

And because Podbean offers unmetered bandwidth and monthly growth space, you can promote your private domain podcasts to your heart’s content - there’s no extra costs for exceeding bandwidth limitations set by your hosting company.

Customizing your domain is easy. Just login to your Podbean.com account and choose “Set Own Domain” from your Account page. Follow the steps in the short wizard and your new private podcasting domain will be live within hours. You’ll need to have access to your DNS records to activate the feature.

Do you want to share your Podcast to millions users in Facebook, MySpace,blogs ? How about get it done Free and just in few clicks?

We, Podbean.com, are glad to announce the embeddable Multimedia Podcast Player now is available to all Podbean.com users. Yes, it is Free. Now you can embed your Podcast in Facebook, MySpace, blogs by simply copying & pasting the Podcast flash player that Podbean.com automatically generated for you. This Podcast Player supports both videos and audios and comes with Podbean unique “Embed Once, Use Forever” feature which means you only need to embed your player once at a place and Podbean.com will automatically update the player whenever you create, modify or delete your Podcast episodes. We hope this new feature will help all Podbean users to boost their exposures. Sounds interesting to you, get the player now. It is Free.

You may check out our FAQ to find out how to get the player embed code and other related info.

There are different colors and sizes for you to choose. Here is a peek of the player:

Should you have any comments, please feel free to contact us.

Enjoy !!!

We are ecstatic to announce a new feature(Open Scripts) is released to Podbean.com site today. This means all Podbean users can start to embed videos, widgets, Google Adsense, Goolge Analytics etc into a Podbean post with a simple copy & paste.

As more and more cool widgets, videos are available on the internet, it is a joy for any podcaster/blogger to easily embed any favourable widgets/videos in his/her own podcast/blog site with a simply copy & paste. We are glad to see this joyful feature now is available to all Podbean users after we had many days of hard working/thinking/testing.

Hereafter is a demo of embedded Adsense code:

Yep! Another new great theme — Garland is ready for you.

Garland is a mac style, three column, widget friendly theme in soothing blue. But what we think you’ll really go gaga for is the color customizer that comes with it. Enjoy!!

Are you thinking about to sell mp3, music CD, T-shirt, Mud-cup, eBook etc in your blog or podcast?

Well now you can, and it has never been so easy. The Podbean eStore service is designed for bloggers and podcasters just like you and takes your selling experience to the next level, simply, without any added complexity.

Podbean eCommerce Breakthrough

Podbean.com eStore is integrated with Paypal’s secure online payment system, thus, ensuring that you receive payment prior to shipping the merchandise and offer your customers payment security.

For digital goods, Podbean.com provides secure file storage that enables you to store downloadable items on the Podbean servers for sale at a later date. These items may include: Software, eBooks, music, movies, digital art, manuals, articles, certificates, forms, files, and just about any material that can be downloaded. This feature allows your customers to instantly gain access to your products and download their selected digital goods after payment.

Highlights of the eStore Feature

• No set up fees; No monthly fees; No minimum Transaction Fee.
• 0% fees for general merchandise transac tions.
• 3% fees for digital goods download in Podbean Secure Server.
• Automate and streamline payment and download with automated delivery of your digital goods immediately after payment.
• Quick and easy to selling merchandise in any blog or podcast(Podbean podcast site or not Podbean podcast site).
• Detailed purchase log and selling history as well as earning information to keep you abreast of your sales activity.

Check out the Podbean eStore how to at Podbean FAQ blog.

We are gladly to announce that Podbean.com starts to provide Paid Subscription Podcast Blog Hosting service. This service is automatically available to all Podbean Basic Plus and above hosting account holders. Should you want to start a paid subscription service, all you need to do is to fill the premium content information form and ONE CLICK on the Activate button in your Podbean dashboard Premium page. You are ready to get paid from your premium subscribers right away. Yes, one click is all you need to do. We take care of all the rest for you. Learn more at Podbean Paid Subscription How To .

It is our great pleasure to announce the new feature MyPlaylist now is available in Podbean.com.

With Podbean.com MyPlaylist feature, you can easily embed your own MP3 files or any MP3 that you can find on internet into your myspace, blogger or your web site pages. You can save, edit the playlist, set it to auto-start. Best of all, this feature is free to use for anyone — Podbean users or not Podbean users. Enjoy!!

We are ecstatic to announce a new feature we released to the site last night. As a result of many sleepless nights, we have completed a very feature-rich Group Podcast/Blog Forum system.

It is a Forum in Audio and Video.
Ever dream of posting forum topics in Audio or Video? Here it comes.

It is a podcast/blog community where your unique personalized podcast/blog meet with the community’s common interest groups.

It is …. . We don’t how to describe our new group system. It likes nothing in the current Internet world. It can be rich-customized to fit your needs. You’d better check it out yourself.

Here are some examples about what you can do in this “Group Podcast/Blog” system:

Case 1: Aggregate multiple Podcast/Blog feeds into one group feed
Want to check out all your friends’ recent posts in one feed? You can simply create a group and invite your friends to join the group. All your friends can publish new posts to their own podcasts/blogs and to the group at one click. You can simply subscribe one feed and get all your friends’ new posts.

Case 2: Publish different characterized posts into different groups
Are you a mixture of Football fan and tech geek? No problem. You can have all the fun by publishing football posts into a football group where all your football friends belongs to and publishing tech posts into a tech group where all your tech friends joined.

Case 3: Publish one post into multiple groups
We think your single one post may be interested in multiple groups? So we create the “One Post Multiple Publish” feature. Your one post can be published into multiple groups at One Click. In each group, your post will be linked back to your original podcast/blog post.

Case 4: A Fan Club Forum in Audio and Video
Want to get interactive feedbacks from your audiences and fans? Open a group and let everyone post feedbacks in text, audio or video.

Case 5: Mashup
We thought that it could be fun to import any your favourite posts into one group, but we haven’t implemented this feature. If you like to have it, please let us know.

Sounds interesting. Create a group now and start to have all the fun in the podcast/blog community.

Podbean supports multiple feeds in one pocast blog channel. You can have one feed per category, such as, a tech feed for all posts in tech category and a sports feed for all posts in sports category, etc. You can simply create a new category by clicking “Manage” -> “Categories” tabs in dashboard. Then you can do “Add New”. You may also quickly add a new category by click “categories” at the side bar of “Publish” page.

If you create a category “sports”, the RSS Feed URL of this category will be:
http://yourusername.podbean.com/category/sports/feed/
All posts in the sports category will be listed in this feed.