Change slugs

Up until now, it’s not been possible to change your podcast’s slug on your own. The slug is the bit of text that appears in your show’s feed URL, website URL, short links, and elsewhere. It’s a lowercase, alphanumeric (along with hyphens) bit of text that uniquely identifies your show on Pinecast, and it’s used in places where we need a machine-friendly way to identify your show.

Changing your slug was previously fraught because it required some non-trivial checks to be done before the change could be made. We made the call to put this burden on our customer support team, since they could make sure everything was done correctly and to help Pinecasters understand the consequences of this change.

Nearly ten years later, we’ve ironed things out so this process is not fraught. Visit the Settings > Change Slug tab in your podcast dashboard to be walked through the process of updating your show’s slug—no customer support interaction needed.

After changing your slug, there’s no need to take further action on your end, like updating apps and directories with new URLs. Most apps and directories will automatically update within about 24 hours, and your listeners will continue to hear your show as you’d expect.