One of the best ways to make your podcast episodes more interactive is to use Chapters. This allows you to upload an image, a call to action/sentence, and a link to both all from your Captivate dashboard.

Questions about Chapters and why you’d use them? Captivate has you covered!

What are Chapters?

Much like the name suggests, this is a simple way to break podcast episodes down into chapters, to make it easy for listeners to jump to specific sections.

Why would I use Chapters as a podcaster?

Chapters offer two big benefits - you make your episodes more interactive to improve the listener experience, and you can include images, calls to action, and links to landing pages, offers, and more.

How do Chapters work?

When creating your episode, you’d add the Chapter features you want to include - image, text, and link. This is then displayed on podcast apps that support the Chapters feature, and your listeners can then view the image or text, and click on your provided link.

How many apps support Chapters?

Currently, there are 25 and counting podcast apps that support chapters, with more supporting all the time, so your listeners will probably be using one of them.

Is there a limit to how many Chapters I can add?

Not at all - but do keep in mind that the focus of the episode is the content, so having too many Chapters may distract the listener. Use them at key points, for key goals you have - an image for a guest, a link to a special offer mentioned in the episode, etc.

Are Chapters permanent in your episode?

Nope - if you want to change a Chapter or remove altogether, that’s super easy to do straight from your episode editing screen!

Do listeners need to re-download episodes that I add Chapters to?

Nope! The great thing with Captivate’s Chapters is that we fully support the Podcasting 2.0 JSON format, which means podcast apps will automatically update your episode with the newly-added Chapters. Sweet!

Recommended reading: How to Add Chapters to Your Podcast Episode