FortifyCast Guides
Hands-on guides for creators. Written to be read once, referenced often. Each one is a complete walkthrough rather than a listicle: what to do, in what order, what it costs, and what usually goes wrong the first time. They assume no prior podcasting experience and no equipment beyond a phone.
The guides are maintained rather than archived. When the platform changes, or when the practical advice stops being true, we revise the guide in place and update its modified date instead of publishing a fresh post. Every guide carries a named author and follows our editorial standards.
- Community safety and moderation on FortifyCast · · 9 min read
How FortifyCast keeps live rooms, chat, and DMs safe, what hosts can control, what our moderation team enforces, and how to report or appeal. - Growing your audience on FortifyCast: a 90-day plan · · 13 min read
A concrete 90-day plan for growing a podcast audience from zero on FortifyCast, what to do every week, what to skip, and what the milestones look like. - Monetizing your show on FortifyCast: coins, sponsors, and Fortify Pro · · 11 min read
The complete guide to earning from your podcast on FortifyCast, coin gifts, tip goals, sponsor reads, live subscriptions, withdrawing to mobile money. - Hosting live audio sessions: the complete playbook · · 12 min read
How to plan, run, and monetize live audio sessions on FortifyCast, from choosing a topic to handling call-ins, tip goals, and turning the recording into an episode. - Starting your first podcast on FortifyCast: a complete guide · · 15 min read
Everything you need to launch a podcast from scratch, naming, cover art, recording, publishing, and getting your first 10 listeners. Written for Ghanaian and pan-African creators.
Where to start
If you have not published anything yet, read the guide on starting your first podcast first, then the one on what to say in your first episode. If you already have a show and want listeners, go to audience growth. If you have listeners and want the show to pay for itself, go to monetization. Hosts running live rooms should read the live audio and the community safety guides together, since moderation matters far more in real time than it does on a recorded episode.
Who these are for
The guides assume you are doing this yourself, without a producer, a studio or a marketing budget. Where a step costs money we say how much and whether it is optional; where free is genuinely good enough, we say so rather than pushing equipment. Most of the advice applies on any podcast platform, not only this one, and where something is specific to FortifyCast we mark it clearly so you are not left guessing.
Shorter, more product-specific answers live in the help centre, and news and analysis live on the blog.