Whether you're just starting your podcast or you've been podcasting for a while, you might find some things easier by using better tools. Here are the audio-editing apps I recommend most for podcasting in 2023.
Here are the words to avoid so you can have the best podcast title that will clearly communicate to potential audiences and stand out in searches.
Podcast cover art is usually the first and most prominent thing people will see about your podcast! So should your photo be in the cover art?
Whether you're a guest on someone else's podcast, you're promoting your latest episode on social networks, or you're making marketing materials for your podcast, you might be wondering which link you should use to share your podcast.
If you ever have a guest on your podcast, you might be wondering where to put their name. Here are some things to consider for your own podcast.
Does it matter what time of day you publish your podcast episodes? Yes! And here are some tips to help you pick when that should be.
Should you publish your podcast episodes on a particular day of the week, avoid the weekends, publish on popular days, or something else?
Enhance the experience for your audience by making unique artwork for each episode. But you need to adapt to how each app might display the image.
If your podcast uses seasons, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here's some guidance to help you decide!
If your podcast uses episode numbers, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here's some guidance to help you decide! But I'll give this warning: it's, unfortunately, more complicated than it should be!
Your podcast episodes don't have to "expire" once the next episode is released. With some strategy, you can use your old episodes to continue growing and engaging your audience!
You might think your audience should thank YOU for all the work you put into your podcast, but how often do you thank THEM?
Where do you tell your audience to go for the actions you want them to take? I suggest that should almost always be based on your podcast's own domain name.
Presentation is one of the 5 cornerstones of podcasting (content, presentation, production, promotion, and P.R.O.F.I.T.), and how you communicate in your podcast can make the biggest difference in whether people enjoy and benefit from your content.
The Audacity software is popular among countless podcasters at all levels of production! at some point! It's a free, cross-platform audio-editing app, so almost anyone can use it. But Audacity has historically lagged behind other audio-editing apps until now! So here are some of my favorite new features that I think warrant giving Audacity another try.
A while back, Apple introduced the RSS tag to let you mark individual episodes as "bonus," "full," or "trailer" types. Here's what each type means and how you should use them in your podcast-publishing tools.
We use many services in the process of podcasting and engaging our audiences, like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, SpeakPipe, and more. But saying these brand names in your podcast can overwhelm or confuse your audience and—even worse—break their ability to properly engage with your podcast!
In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!
The podcasting industry has grown a lot since its birth in 2004, but the core of what a podcast could be and what it could do hasn't changed much. Now, Podcasting 2.0 revolutionizes the industry with highly requested innovations that will help everyone on all sides of the RSS feeds.
In Apple's live-streamed presentation on April 20, 2021, they announced several new products and offerings. But in only a couple minutes, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned Apple Podcasts with announcements that will affect the whole industry.
Do you want to improve the content on your podcast? Jasper (formerly known as “Conversion AI” or “Jarvis”) can help! It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate blog post ideas, headlines, phrases, captions for images, and more. How good is it? That first paragraph was generated using Jasper's “Blog Post Intro Paragraph” template!...
How serious are you about improving and growing your podcast?
Who has the final say for your podcast?
Do you podcast for the fun or art of it, or to build a business?
Even though podcasting is usually an audio-only experience, attractive images can enhance your podcast branding and help you promote your podcast better!
On Friday, April 17, 2020, Apple Podcasts surpassed 1 million valid podcasts in their catalog. So have we reached "peak podcast"? Is it too late to start a podcast? Will your podcast only be lost in the sea of over 1 million other podcasts?
Did you know I once directed a podcast network? I retired it in spring 2019, and here are some lesson I hope can help you.
Here are some tips to help with one of the biggest complaints I've heard about the RØDECaster Pro.
What I'm learning, doing, and reminding myself to overcome perfectionism. I hope this will help you in your own podcasting journey, too.
On December 10, 2019, Apple Podcasts surpassed 800,000 valid podcasts! Here's some more information and statistics on the podcast industry, with data from My Podcast Reviews.
