I’m both sides of this meme. Which is why I edit podcasts. 😆

Meme showing two muscle men shaking hands, one side captioned “engineers who can’t code” and the other side is “designers who can’t design” and the handshake below is “WordPress”

I have a podcast client who talks about how important it is to be professional, tweak your artwork, episode titles, etc. and then the next client I’m editing has a guest who’s having amazing success hitting record, not editing at all, and just publishing.

I love that both can work in this medium.

Friday lukewarm take: If your podcast app features clips of Joe Rogan’s podcast in any promotional images, it’s an immediate red flag for me.

My pessimistic hot take: Video for podcasting is overhyped and by the end of 2024 (if not sooner) many shows will either be back to audio only, or have dropped off the map due to budget / time constraints trying to keep up with video.

A selfish suggestion: Micro.blog should treat it’s version of podcasting the same way it does the posts and make it easy to cross-post the episodes to other podcast hosting platforms like Transistor.

I’m convinced this is the same guy at 29 and at 54 and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Screenshot of the Rich Roll podcast episode with Cal Newport as the guest.

My Friday $0.02 inspired by Monday’s ShopTalk Show: Don’t ask for ratings or reviews for your podcast, ask people to link to your podcast from their blog.

Do you need a video version of your podcast on YouTube or do you just need to submit your podcast via RSS to YouTube so people can subscribe there?

I’ll ditto stamp everything Dave says here about how to get on a podcast and only add: please invest in a good mic so the smart things you have to share can be heard well. 😆

I’m checking out a “record a voicemail so I can respond to it on my podcast” app—send me your thoughts or AMA.