Custom domains & white-label
Serve your Library on your own domain — and, optionally, under only your own brand.
By default your Library lives at <slug>.podhood.com. If your show already has a home on the web, the Library usually belongs under it — library.yourshow.com, search.yourshow.com — so the SEO value accrues to a domain you own.
Connect a domain
In the Studio, open Settings → Domains and add the domain. PodHood shows the exact DNS records to add — which ones depend on whether you're using a subdomain or the bare apex:
library.yourshow.com needs a single CNAME record. The Studio shows the exact target to copy.
| Type | Name | Value |
|---|---|---|
| CNAME | library | (shown in the panel) |
The bare yourshow.com needs an A record. The panel also lists an optional CNAME on www — set it and PodHood forwards www visitors to the apex automatically.
| Type | Name | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A | @ | (shown in the panel) |
| CNAME | www | (shown in the panel) |
The panel polls DNS and moves the domain from Needs DNS → Pending → Live. Once verified, the custom domain becomes the Library's canonical address — visitors who land on the podhood.com subdomain are redirected to it, and search engines are pointed at it.
Your Studio stays at podhood.com/studio/<slug> regardless; the custom domain only serves the public Library.
White-label
White-label removes all PodHood identity from the public Library — it presents under your Channel's own name and artwork only. The toggle lives in the same Domains panel.
Two deliberate constraints. White-label requires a verified custom domain — on a podhood.com
address the toggle stays off, since that host is inherently PodHood's. And a white-label Library
is read-only for the audience: the Subscribe/sign-in affordance is removed entirely, because
audience login would route through PodHood-branded authentication and email.
White-label governs what your audience sees. Everything else — Studio, sync, indexing, the API and MCP server (which answer on the custom domain too) — works unchanged.