FAQ for Speakers

Benefits of Having a Podcast on Muslim Central?

Free Hosting
Muslim Central is completely free for both the host and the end user. As a non-profit organization, we cover all hosting and IT infrastructure costs, allowing you to focus solely on creating impactful content.

Your Own Channel
You’ll have a dedicated channel on our platform, complete with links to your official social media accounts and websites.

Apple Podcasts
We’ll set up your podcast on Apple Podcasts, making it accessible to a global audience.

Custom RSS Feed
Receive your own RSS feed, which is consumed by countless podcast platforms, ensuring your content is widely distributed. If you have your own app, you could have your developer integrate this into your app!

Inclusion in Our App
Your podcast will be featured in the Muslim Central app, increasing visibility and accessibility for users.

Social Media Integration
We provide links to all your social media accounts, helping listeners connect with you across various platforms.

End-to-End Publishing
We handle every aspect of publishing your audio podcast, making the process seamless for you. Think of us as your free, private podcast publishing platform.

Optimal Distribution
Your content will be available on our website, Android app, Apple Podcasts, and third-party apps. This ensures optimal distribution and the reward of spreading goodness, all at no cost to you. Your content can also be consumed in various other ways, such as using Apple Podcasts via Alexa. Users can also listen via various forms of hardware, in-car etc etc.

Content Management
We typically integrate your videos from various sources, converting them to audio for our systems to publish as podcast episodes. These are only publicly available videos, and you can request to have any episode removed if needed.

Opt-Out

We will still host your content, even if you opt out of any of these! We are doing this a service for the Ummah.

AI Text

We generate Text Summaries and Transcripts using AI. Yes, the quality is varied, but it assists users looking for phrases or terms in talks among other benefits. It could also be used by yourself for research or writing. Feel free to request an opt-out on this.

Jingle & Donation CTA

To help sustain our non-profit organization, we include a brief jingle at the beginning of some audio episodes, encouraging listeners to consider supporting us. While this is optional, no speaker has requested exclusion so far, and your support helps us continue providing our services.

You have the option to opt-out of including our jingles and donation calls to action at the start of your episodes. Note that we do not include it in every episode; instead, we use a randomizer that injects it occasionally.

Why Was I Not Asked Before Being Added?

Getting in touch with speakers can be challenging if not near impossible. Without exaggeration we have tried for years whilst – keeping track in a spreadsheet – to get in touch with so many of you. It has actually caused a massive backlog.

So, for the benefit of the masses, we recently decided to take the approach of promoting your content that is publicly available in line with our own copyright view (see previous page). Usually, converting from video to audio but not from behind paywalls.

We are here to benefit the Ummah and promote your work. Kindly, please consider the following before making a decision and see above benefits section as well.

Key Points:

• Non-Monetized Platform: We do not make any money from your content.
• No Edits: We do not alter your content in any way.
• Respect for Paywalls: We do not take content from behind paywalls.
• Our Cost: It costs us to host and distribute the audio.
• Minimal Complaints: In the past 10 years, only one speaker has requested their content be removed from our platform due to not asking beforehand.
• Permissions Granted: Many speakers have granted us permission, and those we eventually contact are typically accepting, as long as their work remains unmonetized. Also, some are actually surprised we asking like of-course go ahead.

If you still prefer to have your content channel removed, please feel free to drop us an email, and we will promptly honor your request.

I already have a Podcast (Apple, Spotify etc) can I still be added Here?

Yes, we have about two speakers at the time of writing this, whom we added here, we then link to their podcasts and then we add them to our App.

How do I get a speaker on to Muslim Central

You can suggest a speaker by dropping us a mail.

At the time of writing, we have a huge backlog of speakers to still add due to finding it incredibly tedious, time consuming to get in touch with speakers or their representatives.

If your speaker is just starting out though and does not give much talks in general, consider using other platforms.

I want to send in files manually that is not available online elsewhere

We will setup a special File Request folder online, where you can drop in the files. No sign-up required.

• Title the file as we will use that for the Title of the Talk
• Audio/Video format ideally mp3 (we will convert if not)
• Optional (Text File) with Description of talk

I want to change my bio, photo and so on?

No problem, we can do this for you, simply drop us a mail. Some of the things we can add/edit:

• Bio
• Photograph
• Social Media Links
• Add/Remove Audio