The Podcast Partnership will be at Podcast Movement this year in a booth surrounded by "Podcast Hosts" all trying to outdo each other. The future of Podcast hosting is three simple things. Paul Colligan explains them in this episode.
The promise of Podcoin is fascinating - it's "the Podcast player that pays." Listen to a Podcast, make some money. Get a new audience for your Podcast because those nice folk at Podcoin are paying them to listen to your Podcast. That's not how Podcast...
Pandora has a shot at "winning" the Podcast wars if they do these things - correctly - and quickly ... 1 - Bring ALL the Podcasters in. 2 - Use unsold or remnant inventory to promote Podcasts. 3 - Start Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down ASAP. 4 - Invite and...
Yes, Luminary is charging for Podcasts - and it seems like an attractive model. With options like Spotify Premium and the like, why wouldn't we want to charge for our podcasts? The paywall premium model for Podcasting simply doesn't have a future. If...
You have a choice of marketing your content on Facebook and paying/hoping that the algorithm will be favorable to you. You can also put that some content on a Podcast and know that 100% of those looking to get the content will, in fact, get the...
Don't assume that your Podcast competition is doing what they're doing because they have a specific strategy. Also, never assume that if they do have a strategy, that the strategy is solid. Many things are done online in Podcasting because someone got...
There has been a LOT of complaining lately about groups who take "your" Podcast and put it on "their" platform. This is what Podcasting is FOR / this is what Podcasting is about. This is why we love Podcasting. The power of Podcasting...
I don't have a full strategy yet for the new Apple Podcast pages, but I'm intrigued. Here's the link to Apple's Podcast Page for this episode - Now that Apple has produced both individual Podcast Pages with play buttons (see the one for the...
Can you be a guest on my Podcast? Probably not. This Podcast explains why. Originally recorded as a Facebook Live -
A quick look at whether or not Podcasters really want to play in the YouTube sandbox.
Are you producing episodes - or assets? Here's are few thoughts on the difference between the two with a little math thrown in to make it interesting.
A few thoughts on the March 25, 2019, Apple Special Event and what the lessons of Apple moving to a services company should be.
What would happen if Apple launched its own free Podcasting hosting service atop already existing free iCloud accounts? There is real precedence for this in this history of free hosting accounts (could happen on Google Drive or Microsoft...
We hit Podcasting Myths on the Podcasters' Roundtable last night. Why are there so many Podcast myths? Here's the episode at YouTube -
We're putting together our monthly stats reporting for our clients around here and I thought I'd share a few ideas about Podcast stats and what we can learn from them. Spoiler Alert: It's a lot more than download numbers. Links mentioned:...
I'm still pondering the implications of the #InfiniteDial 2019 report and I've got a few thoughts on Pandora versus Spotify and our Podcast audiences. Will be curious to hear what you think.
The yearly Infinite Dial Report is my Superbowl. We'll examine more specifics later - but the numbers continue to fascinate - and continue to go up. You can download the entire #InfiniteDial report at
Video podcasting is going to become a thing again - and it's going to get bigger - and it's part of why Spotify bought Gimlet. Frank's Audio Podcast - Frank's Video Podcast - Organixx's Audio Podcast - ...
There are some new rules at Apple about Podcasts Connect. You better heed them, and here's why ... "For clarity, you must not aggregate (or permit any third-party to aggregate) analytics information provided to you by Apple as part of the...
I handed over control of my Podcast last season to someone else. It didn't go well, and it WAS MY FAULT. I didn't know what I wanted. Now I do ...
Spotify to buy Gimlet Media is the buzz all over Podcast land these days. In this InbetweenISode (yeah, I need another name), Paul examines the what, the so what, and the now what of this situation. Original Facebook live that this was taken...
Podcasting is so fun and so "easy" that it's often our path to look at "how" we do something in Podcasting. May I suggest that we should, sometimes, look at the "who?" Dan Sullivan's many Podcasts - My Podcast Book -
Jay Abraham - I got the interview today and have some thoughts on him, Dave Letterman, the "NPR Sound," and more. Original Facebook Live -
The Podcast channel you understand the least might be the source of your best audience. You might not be a fan of Spotify. You might not even "get" Spotify. It doesn't matter. Original Facebook live that this was taken from - Page at Spotify about...