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.

I feel a similar sentiment applies to podcasting as well. a.wholelottanothing.org/2024/02/0…

My hope for YouTube creators is much like bloggers. Don’t spend all your time chasing the tea leaves and conventional wisdom. Focus on your channel/site and keep creating things you love that will resonate with your viewers/readers. Hopefully the money will follow, but obsessing over how to eeek out every last cent from your work will make your work suffer.

My ideal work week has 80% podcast editing related activities, and 20% invoicing, estimating, and related business managing activities.

Is there someone out there who’s the inverse of that? Wants to edit 20% of the time, but otherwise enjoys estimating and invoicing? 🤔

Oh wow. I am so surprised that Spotify is walking back a feature that a bunch of podcasters used and now their shows are gutted. Who could have seen this coming?? /sarcasm

I want to live stream my work editing podcasts if for no other reason than it would help me focus on the task at hand rather than showing how embarrassingly often I let myself get distracted down a social media rabbit hole.

This is an awesome breakdown of how Marie Poulin started their podcast, and figured out where automation could help make it all flow even smoother.

Anyone out there ever used / using Gumball.fm for sponsoring a podcast? Or managing sponsorships for a podcast?

Growth hacking your podcast has it’s place I suppose, but I love the chill vibe of Dave’s I used to listen to your podcast post. “It’s important we celebrate the Thrill of Missing Out.”

How Apple’s new Podcast Transcript feature works in the iOS 17.4 beta.

It’s been amazing to watch podcast transcriptions be an afterthought to being a standard feature that every app has to have now.

I wish more companies would equip their employees who go out and appear on podcasts with good mics and a decent recording space in home or in office.

It reflects on the company when someone is speaking on your behalf and they’ve got a crap mic.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work with clients in women’s health & fertility podcast space over the years, and I’m really thankful for the “forced” exposure to stories that my dumb man brain might not have heard or read otherwise.

So we go in there and we talk to him. He said the qualifications were three or more failed in vitros. And he goes, to be honest, ***, you weren't even on my mind for this. I was looking through my file looking for another woman, and I saw your folder, ***, and I remembered three failed in Vitros.&10;&10;She qualifies and he looked down at *** in the car seat. I still remember. And he goes, you would get a free in vitro. I mean, are you interested? And me and *** just looked at each other and we're like, oh my gosh. Like, are you kidding me?

Is there a way to ensure your podcast isn’t sucked up by an AI machine learning monster?