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What Is City Cast Neighbors?

Posted on July 14, 2025   |   Updated on September 30, 2025

City Cast Austin Staff

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The City Cast Austin team you'd be supporting! Not pictured: Our fifth team member, Elissa Castles.

Welcome to City Cast Austin Neighbors, our brand-new membership program that helps deepen your connection to Austin. Here’s everything you need to know about our growing Neighbor community.

What It Means to Be a City Cast Austin Neighbor

At City Cast Austin, our team brings you the stories that matter — right here in our own backyard. We dig deep into the conversations shaping our communities, the Austinites who give the city its heartbeat. In a time with increasing rhetoric and a barrage of national headlines, we spotlight the conversations impacting our neighborhoods, and celebrate the neighbors who make Austin unique.

Because better neighbors make for better cities. And City Cast Austin Neighbors are the best.

Benefits and Perks

Your membership directly supports local journalism and the stories you rely on to better understand Austin. Here’s what else you get:

  • Neighbor-only events: You’ll get access to regular events like special insider tours, local volunteering meetups, happy hours with other City Cast Austin Neighbors, and other Neighbors-only events where we share ideas about how to make the city better for everyone.
  • An opportunity to submit your favorite local business or organization to be mentioned in the show and in the Hey Austin newsletter. It’s your chance to shine a light on the local spots making a difference.
  • A weekly preview of Austin events right in your inbox every Monday, so you can make the most of your time in the city.
  • Ad-free listening: A special feed just for Neighbors where you can listen to the City Cast Austin podcast without advertisements.
  • A dedicated thank you on the City Cast Austin podcast.

Become a City Cast Austin Neighbor and help us build a better city, one good neighbor at a time.

Join the growing community of City Cast Austin Neighbors

Community is important to us, so we are donating the first month’s membership fees to the Austin Disaster Relief Network. Help us support our neighbors affected by the devastating floods in Central Texas.

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