Episode Details

When I first heard about Flightcast on the Podbiz show, I thought, "I have to have Rox Codes on my show." I had Rox do a Flightcast demo for members of the School of Podcasting. Rox has worked for Mr. Beast, Microsoft, Facebook and many more.

In this episode of the School of Podcasting, I sit down with Rox Codes, co-creator of Flight Cast, the video-first hosting platform built in partnership with Steven Bartlett from Diary of a CEO.

If you’ve been thinking about getting more serious with video podcasting, YouTube growth, or centralizing your stats from multiple platforms, this one is for you.

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What We Talk About in This Episode

In this conversation, we cover:

• What Flight Cast actually is (and who it’s for)
• Why it’s a video-first hosting platform
• How “one upload, one dashboard” pushes your show to YouTube, Spotify, Apple, RSS, and audio platforms
• How you can keep it simple or go crazy with customization
• Simple upload, powerful customization
• Upload one episode and:
• Send video to YouTube, Spotify, Apple, RSS
• Send audio everywhere else
• Schedule different release times per platform (e.g., 6 AM audio, 8 AM YouTube)
• Use different titles, descriptions, and even different edits per platform
• Upload separate versions of the file (say “subscribe” in one, “follow” in another)

Use AI to:

• Generate titles, descriptions, and chapters in your own style
• Auto-format chapters correctly for each platform
• All your stats in one place
• How Flight Cast pulls:
• YouTube views
• Spotify streams
• RSS downloads
• And rolls them up into a single “plays” metric
• Additional analytics you get:
• Day-by-day performance
• New vs returning followers
• Cross-platform uniques
• Breakdown by platform, country, state, city
• A built-in “giant spreadsheet” you don’t have to build yourself
• Audience overlap (who listens to episode A and episode B)
• Using the built-in AI chat to answer questions like:
• “Rank all my episodes on YouTube in the last 6 months by views in the first 24 hours.”
• “What’s my 100-day average per episode?”
• Ads, programmatic, and retention data

How Flight Cast handles:

• Geo-targeting
• Programmatic ads
• Dynamic ad slots
• Why retention graphs matter more than a single