If you're a podcaster you've certainly made a mistake that you wish you could take back. With any luck, after this Round, you'll never make that mistake again or maybe you'll avoid it all together!
Join Ray Ortega, Daniel J. Lewis, Kevin McKinney and Eric Broadbent to chat about our podcasting mistakes and why you might want to add video to your podcast or if you're a video podcaster or YouTuber, why you might want to get into audio only podcasting.
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Should we enhance the current RSS spec. to expand its capabilities or do we need to go further and create a whole new way to deliver podcasts?
Join Ray Ortega, Dave Jackson, Daniel J. Lewis and Evo Terra to RSS tags, how redirects work and other podcast news.
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Are your episodes designed to be evergreen? Do you promote your back-catalog?
Join Ray, Dave, Evo Terra, Candace Spears, and Michael Teske to discuss getting more mileage out of past episodes and other podcasting news.
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Is it a good idea or use of your time to distribute your audio only podcast to YouTube?
Join Ray Ortega, Dave Jackson, Daniel J. Lewis, Addy Saucedo, Jen Edds, Bandrew Scott to discuss YouTube as a podcast listening platform.
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Don't start a podcast in order to make money, there's no here to be made. Or so they say. What does making money in podcasting really mean and is there a chance to earn cash from your podcast?
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, Eric Hunley, James Thomas to answer the question of can you make money in podcasting as well as a discussion around the articles linked below.
Articles Discussed:
Title: Adblock Radio is an Adblocker for Live Radio Streams and Podcasts
Main Takeaway: The creator is a bit of a jerk. He goes nuts trying to cover for the fact that he just wants to skip ads. Loudness wars?! Pfft! “He also feels that ads try to trigger impulse buying by exploiting our emotions and serendipitous discovery, short circuiting our rational thoughts.”
Title: You’ll Never Make Money Podcasting
Main Takeaway: This has some folks irritated and I can see where it is not completely accurate but it may still be good for setting expectations low.
URL: https://twocents.lifehacker.com/youll-never-make-money-podcasting-1838640571
James Thomas
Title: How to get your podcast heard
Main Takeaway: There are many podcast pundits in the wild who may be misleading or building hope in podcasters who are unwilling to do the work to get their name out there. It takes time, dedication and perseverance.
BTW: Doing the podcast that I do I find that I have to deal with issues Stateside-side podcasters rarely have to worry about (ie: time, location, language, third-world Internet problems, local political events and regulations).
URL: https://www.business.com/articles/get-your-podcast-heard/
Title: How to make your podcast stand out
Main Takeaway: This is an issue that is always on my mind. Not all podcast topics or niches will bring in thousands of listeners. The truth is some topics and niches have a small sample area. Maybe the key is to remember that most podcasters should look at their podcast as a tool to promote other things like a product, service, foundation or club.
URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00128-7
Dave Jackson
Title: Podcasts Are Getting Attacked With Negative Reviews With No Help in Sight
Main Takeaway: if platforms such as Facebook and Yelp detect a business is being unfairly targeted with negative reviews they’ll temporarily suspend the ability to leave reviews. Me? Remove reviews altogether. Do we need them?
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Is Apple going to start investing money in original podcasts? Spotify, Luminary, Stitcher, there are plenty of places that have podcasts that can only be consumed on a their own platform. Is that really a podcast? Does it matter if it's not?
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel and Stephanie Fuccio to answer the question of whether Apple investing in podcast programming would be a good thing either for them or the podcast space.
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How many podcasts are in Apple Podcasts/iTunes and how many of those podcasts are actually producing regular episodes?
Join Ray, Dave, and Daniel to talk about the number of podcasts you are sharing real estate with and what it means to podfade.
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Podcasts, along with podcast audio players, are now surfacing in Google searches. Can yours be found? What exactly are these searches turning up and are they useful to your show?
Join Ray, Dave, and Evo Terra to talk about this new way to find podcasts and if they think it will get more people to listen to your show.
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Can your podcast be found anywhere people are looking for your podcast? How about places they aren't looking for traditionally defined podcasts (read: YouTube)? Where do you put your podcast? What platforms that support audio do you ignore or resist?
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Do Apple Podcasts ratings and reviews move your podcast up the ‘charts?' Can you use copyrighted music as long as it’s only a few seconds? Is YouTube is a bad place to put your podcast?
Some of these you've heard, some of these you think are correct but what's the truth? Join this Round to bust or confirm some of the most common podcasting myths.
Myths!
2:15 Apple Podcasts Ratings and Reviews Move Your Podcast Up the Charts
8:00 You Can Use Copyrighted Music if it’s Only a Few Seconds
13:51 Podcast Media Hosting is the Same
20:00 Consistency is the Key to Success
25:43 There’s an Ideal Length for a Podcast
31:15 Podcasting has a Discovery Problem
41:30 You Need 10 of Thousands of Downloads Per Episode to Get Advertising
47:27 You Need to Launch with Multiple Episodes to Get the Most Impact
56:32 If You Build it, They Will Come
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Have you podfaded, feeling like you're close or maybe wish you could take a break? Starting a podcast is not the hardest part, keeping going is. How do we deal with the constant grind of content production?
Join Ray, Dave, and Bandrew (aka Podcastage) who is currently dealing with how to balance life, work, and content production. We'll discuss dealing with burnout as well as producing content for multiple platforms (podcasts, YouTube, etc.).
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Join Ray, Dave, Ginger Wiseman, and Emily Prokop to discuss podcast 'launches' (do they matter?), podcast artwork, how important is it, and more ways that tech is trying to 'solve' discovery.
You have a podcast, that's probably why you're watching the Roundtable and you've probably recorded a bunch of episodes but do you create any other content to support your podcast?
Join Ray, Dave, Jamie Eads, and Jessica Kupferman to discuss other ways to grow your podcast through content creation (e.g. should you be blogging too?). We'll also discuss news and stories in the podcasting space.
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Articles discussed:
Podcaster Sued for Copyright Infringement for Using Music without Permission
Spotify’s increased focus on podcasts in 2019 includes selling its own ads
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Many podcasters will complain that 'the system' as it exists doesn't do enough to help grow their show. That they can't gain enough of an audience because they are locked out of the top charts or not part of a big network, but is that true? Is there more you could be doing for yourself to grow your show? Likely, yes.
Join Ray, Dave, Evo Terra and Natalie Torres to discuss podcast audience growth, podcast networks, and more podcasting news and stories.
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Articles discussed:
The Year of the DIY Podcast Network
How to explain to family what I do
The year in podcasts — never have our ears been so spoilt for choice
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Google's latest entry into the podcast market, Google Podcasts, isn't converting the number of Android listeners we'd hoped. Or is it? Have you used it? What can we do to get more people using Google Podcasts and if we're not successful, do you think Google will pull the plug...once again?
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, Paul Colligan, and John Wilkerson to discuss the Google Podcast directory and other podcasting news.
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Articles discussed:
Why is the Google Podcasts App Failing So Hard?
Podcast industry aims to better track listeners through new analytics tech called RAD
What do podcast ratings actually tell us?
What New Data Suggests about Podcast-Hosting Customers
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You can start a podcast on any budget but some want all the latest and greatest gear. How much did you spend on your first podcast setup and did that investment grow over time or did you jump in headfirst and spend like you weren't planning on needing any more gear?
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Articles discussed:
Podcasting revolutionized by Aussie company RODE – RODECaster Pro mixer does it all
Introducing Anchor Sponsorships, the podcast advertising platform for everyone
Labels Sue PokerNews over Copyright-Infringing Tracks in Podcasts
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Pandora is one of the last, big audio platforms to introduce podcasts but do they offer anything new besides another place to list your podcast? Which by the way, would probably be good enough considering the potential exposure to a whole new audience. But still, what's different? And what have they already done wrong?
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Do you create shownotes for each episode of your podcast? Where do you post them (website, ID3 tags, RSS tags)? And how do these notes look to your listener? Are your links clickable in a podcast app?
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Where do you get your podcast stats? Do you even look? How often? How much do they matter? And is your show ranked in Apple Podcasts? What does that even mean?
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Apple is kicking out a lot of podcasters from the Apple Podcasts directory. Why? We let you know how to avoid having your podcast removed.
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There are a lot of podcasts in the Apple Podcasts directory and by default, many other directories. But out of more than 500K podcasts, less than 25% of those will publish a new episode this year. So what's wrong? Is podcasting too difficult to maintain? Is it too easy to start?
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, and Andre Lewis to discuss recent stories in the podcasting industry and how they relate to you, a podcast producer.
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Depending on where you read the stats, the number of podcasts ranges from ~250K all the way to 2 million! Um, that last one is not correct;)
Are we oversaturated with podcasts? Do you feel like there are too many options? Is there room for another podcast about podcasting (insert any niche you prefer).
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, and Josh for a discussion on recent podcasting news stories.
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With Podcast Movement just completed, what drove a much larger presence by radio producers and as podcasters, why should we care if radio takes up podcasting?
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, Rob Greenlee, and Tyler Stalman to talk about recent podcasting news.
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Have podcasts become more popular than blogs? What happens when you 'boost' a podcast post on facebook to promote your show and what's still wrong with the Google Podcasts App? This and more!
Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, Paul Colligan and Jonathan Bloom to talk about recent podcasting news.
Stories from this Round:
Ray Ortega
Title: The Daily starts being marketed, and the BBC wants a UK podcast chart
Main Takeaway:
URL: https://podnews.net/update/the-daily-marketing
Title: Donating to podcasts via an Amazon Alexa smart speaker
Main Takeaway:
URL: https://podnews.net/update/alexa-donations
Dave Jackson
Title:
Main Takeaway: 27% of people have three or more smart speakers listening to am/fm is #4 on the list of where do you listen to audio. People are calling podcast directing more
Title:What is Podchaser?
Main Takeaway: I don’t get it?
URL: https://www.podchaser.com/episodes
Daniel J. Lewis
Title: Podcasts More Popular than Blogs
Main Takeaway: I think “popularity” and “interest”/“usage” are very different things
URL: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/podcasts/261447/
Interesting cross-reference from 2 years ago: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/18/the-future-of-podcasting/
Title: [Opinion] Castbox has not fixed the problem they created, and more Google Podcasts issues
Main Takeaway: Several podcasts still exist in Google Podcasts with a Castbox feed, instead of redirecting the feeds, they are simply broken. Also, I’ve discovered unintentional duplicates and omissions based on some podcaster oversights or Google’s method
Related Question posted in PR.com comments: Andy from photobizx.com: Hi Guys - I've submitted my Free podcast to Google and it's there and working fine but Google is also displaying my premium feed which I want to stop. Do you have any idea how to go about this?
URL: [none]
Paul Colligan
Title: I boosted a Facebook post to promote my podcast. Here are my results!
Main Takeaway:
Title: Podcasts More Popular than Blogs
Main Takeaway:
URL: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/podcasts/261447/
Jonathan Bloom
Title: TalkShoe is Relaunching
Main Takeaway: The featureset sounds amazing: doing mixing, call-ins, even streaming straight to YouTube Live from their site. All things I wish I could offset, as I have to use two computers for one of my shows to achieve this. The catch: FREE, I see NOWHERE where it is mentioned how to pay. As a creator, I have had my share of my own content go away from free hosts. Some of my early stuff was on Blip.tv’s free plans. I don’t want to see content people create gone and missing forever.
URL: http://podcasternews.com/2018/07/18/talkshoe-is-relaunching/
Title: From Podnews: Radiotopia launch Everything is alive today, interviewing inanimate objects about their daily life.
Main Takeaway: This shows the beauty of podcasting. I actually felt an emotional connection to the can of cola, Louis. This is a fictionalized podcast, but it shows how you can connect with a podcaster/guest. This helps with serious topics as well. I’ve had my perspective shifted because I heard someone describe why they believe something.
URL: http://www.everythingisalive.com/episodes/louis-can-of-cola