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266 iOS 18 Notes App Rumors, Podcasting Gear Talk and the Future of Podcast Success Measurement
04/23/2024
266 iOS 18 Notes App Rumors, Podcasting Gear Talk and the Future of Podcast Success Measurement
Takeaways from NAB in Las Vegas. What if your feed is capped? Or is it? We've got answers. New audio-centric social media platform, Air Chat. Is CPM the problem in podcasting? A bit about the Shure MoveMic and the updated MV7+. Some great updates to the Notes App on iOS 18 (allegedly). Insight on what it takes to crack the top 10 in a category on Apple Podcasts upon launch! 👀 Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:34) PROMO 1: Not Your Average Goat (3:30) Rob and Elsie conversation (5:06) Recap NAB 2024 (7:54) Shure MoveMic test at NAB and thoughts (11:22) What podcasters were talking about at NAB 2024 (15:19) What if your RSS feed is capped at 100? Or is it? (17:21) The new audio social media platform Airchat (24:39) Are CPMs to blame on why podcasts are devalued? (39:21) PROMO 2: Ep 133 of The Hearts of Gold Podcast (40:42) Why did you leave us? (41:55) Is there data on type of podcast at a mass level? And thoughts on series vs episodic (46:35) Do you have a True Crime podcast and are hosted on Libsyn? We got an opportunity for you! (49:35) The new updated Shure MV7+ (53:39) iOS 18 and the Notes up with audio support! (allegedly) (58:43) PROMO 3: The Perfect Stool (59:22) What do you need to get on the top 10 of your category when you launch your podcast? (1:01:19) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie (Including Amazon Music!) HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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265 Apple Podcasts Search Update, Marketing Your Podcast With Transcripts Plus Podcast Data And Trends
04/09/2024
265 Apple Podcasts Search Update, Marketing Your Podcast With Transcripts Plus Podcast Data And Trends
No more Google Podcasts? George Carlin's estate reaches settlement after AI Podcast, marketing your episodes with Apple Podcasts and the new transcripts feature! Two soapboxes 👀 Rob on Bill Maher refusing to stop the smoke for Steve-O, and Elsie's, on marketers and the misleading headlines! Big ups to Ashley Carman for her piece on some of the biggie podcasts using app game marketing, discussing The Infinite Dial 2024, and March's downloads stats! User agent and geographic! 👀 Sign up for this event featuring the YouTube Podcasting Team with Libsyn! All about YouTube + RSS + Podcasting! → Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:51) PROMO 1: United We Spay (3:39) Rob and Elsie conversation A tiny bit of chit chat (5:36) No more Google Podcasts? What you can expect, a message from the Google Podcast team (10:06) Attend our even with the YouTube Podcasts Team! (11:43) Update on Apple Podcasts search, guess what else gives you search results? Info directly from the Apple Podcasts Team! (18:28) Levelator work with the M2 MacBook Pro! (21:12) George Carlin's estate reaches settlement after the A.I podcast situation (28:11) Very creative and easy way to market your show on social media using Apple Podcasts transcripts! (30:33) Shout-out to Podcraft! Doing the work for independent podcasters (32:40) PROMO 2: Rewind Rewatch (33:42) Soapbox 1 - Bill Maher one day of no smoke, that is all, one day of no smoke (36:58) Soapbox 2 - Make your headline promoting your thing reflect the actual content (41:33) Spotify podcast trends report and why we are bringing it to you for YOU to evangelize (48:40) Shout-out to Ashley Carman on covering the use of game ads for podcasts and how they are proving to be quite problematic (57:10) Edison Research's The Infinite Dial 2024 redux! (1:01:15) PROMO: Craftlit (1:02:44) Stats, geographic and user agents (1:07:20) Libsyn Ads advertising rates for March (1:10:19) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie Example of using Apple Podcasts transcripts to share a podcast episode HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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264 Optimizing For Podcast Discovery, Uploading Your Transcripts & The Shure MoveMic
03/26/2024
264 Optimizing For Podcast Discovery, Uploading Your Transcripts & The Shure MoveMic
You can now upload your own transcripts to Libsyn 5! The amazing new Shure MoveMic, Libsyn teams up with Bunny Studio! How Episodes.fm can really help you market your podcast. FYI Having keywords in your description, no matter how many times won't be indexed by Apple Podcasts (and more data on what gets your show found in Apple Podcasts,) Rick Selah as the new EVP of Sales for Advertisecast aka Libsyn Ads! Yes, Advertisecast is now Libsyn Ads 🎉 And stats, the latest geographic and user agents data. 👀 Sign up for this event featuring the YouTube Podcasting Team with Libsyn! All about YouTube + RSS + Podcasting! → Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:44) PROMO 1: In The Great Khan’s Tent (3:34) Rob and Elsie conversation (5:28) Adding your own transcripts to Libsyn 5 - it's a thing! (6:19) Clarification from the Apple Podcasts team about how they ingest transcripts added and compare to the actual audio file (15:18) All about the Shure MoveMic, what is is and best use cases (25:35) Libsyn Teams Up with Bunny Studio to Unlock Exclusive Premium Creative Services for Podcasters (28:18) Using Episodes.FM to share your podcast episode (34:15) PROMO 2: Be Well, Sis Feedback on vinyl wrapping a Pacer (35:38) Two women's events are back: International Women's Podcast Awards and The International Women's Festival (37:09) Libsyn names Rick Selah as new EVP of sales for AdvertiseCast Marketplace (39:09) We're doing an event with the YouTube for Podcasters team all about your podcasts on YouTube (40:46) How many episodes have we covered Apple Podcasts search? A lot (42:47) Clarifying exactly what is indexed in Apple Podcasts to get your podcast found (57:09) PROMO 3: Homeowners Best Real Estate Moves (57:52) Stats: geographic and user agent (1:01:42) Libsyn Ads monthly advertising rates (1:04:20) Advertisecast is now Libsyn Ads (1:09:11) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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263 Creative Marketing Unleashed and iOS 17's Impact on Podcasting
03/05/2024
263 Creative Marketing Unleashed and iOS 17's Impact on Podcasting
We cover the release of IAB Podcast Metrics V2.2 for public comment; using community volunteers for human-assisted transcripts and addressing common transcription questions; Elsie's thoughts on the risks of "magically replying" on social media; Rob's take on the potential impact of iOS 17 and Q1 ad changes; effective podcast marketing tactics ranging from vinyl-wrapped cars to Overcast ads and guerrilla approaches; how programmatic ads can provide modest but meaningful income; a discussion of the Edison Research Share of Ear Report; and a look at podcast stats, geographic and user agent data. With insights on metrics, marketing, monetization, industry trends and more, this episode has something for podcasters at every level! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:24) PROMO 1: The Mandalore (3:22) Rob and Elsie conversation How about them Chiefs? And Rob is back (9:43) The IAB Podcast Metrics V2.2 is now available for public comments. (11:27) The influence of podcast hosts! A report (17:25) Jay on podcast transcripts - audio feedback (25:39) Follow up on opting out of podcast transcripts (33:02) Magic Reply and Elsie's soapbox about its impact on social media interaction (39:39) Rob shares the impact and what he calls "the perfect storm" of iOS 17 + Q1 + programmatic ads (43:24) PROMO 2: Everyone Is Moving To Berlin (45:05) Marketing: social? (49:21) Marketing: Overcast ads (54:24) The impact of the programmatic Paul audio feedback (58:24) Guerrilla marketing tactics and vinyl on your vehicle! Darren audio feedback (1:05:28) Edison Research's Quarterly Share of Ear Report with interesting results on podcast listening in urban vs rural areas (1:08:08) PROMO 3: The Strokecast about Voice Over (1:08:53) Stats: geographic and user agent (1:13:49) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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262 Protecting Your Podcast Brand, Effective Podcast Advertising and Programmatic Challenges Explored
02/20/2024
262 Protecting Your Podcast Brand, Effective Podcast Advertising and Programmatic Challenges Explored
Hit skip or hit subscribe? The dilemma of podcast ads, explored from both sides of the microphone; what is podcast x-ray and why do you need it? The impact of podcast fame, podcast business and controversial guests is it destroying podcasting? Let's be nice to people on the internet; podcast Ads as a tool to get better at your own podcast promotion; the Podcast Threads community is thriving, plus so much more! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (3:10) PROMO 1: The Main Thing (4:09) Elsie and Erik conversation Guest co-host! Erik Fisher (5:44) The coolest tool, Podcast X-Ray (11:35) Deep dive into the downfall of modern podcasting video (27:42) What about when advertisers are deceptive about the categories? (38:35) The audience experience of podcast ads and be nice, people! (43:51) PROMO 2: Where Is The Line? (46:20) Why listening to podcast ads is helpful to podcasters (54:38) Podcaster Threads is cool! (1:03:00) PROMO 3: Tomorrow's Legends (1:04:00) Have you taken the Podcaster Gear survey? (1:04:55) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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261 Apple Podcasts Transcript Updates and Stepping Down From Podcast Leadership
02/06/2024
261 Apple Podcasts Transcript Updates and Stepping Down From Podcast Leadership
Rob and Elsie dive into the world of podcast transcripts, covering everything from Apple Podcasts' new automatic transcription feature to the best practices for creating and using custom transcripts. They also discuss recent developments in the industry, including Apple Podcasts' exclusivity shifts, changes in podcast app ownership, and the impact of iOS 17 on podcast statistics plus user agents download numbers are back! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:17) PROMO 1: The Business of You (2:43) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:30) All kinds of talk about Apple Podcasts transcripts! (32:29) Elsie and some She Podcasts news (37:22) PROMO 2: 19 Stories From Fear To Hope (40:46) Paul Colligan's guesting manifesto (42:31) Remember Magic Bookafier? It's back on AppSumo (43:11) Looks like the Castro App is back! (45:31) Alex Cooper is no longer exclusive to Spotify (47:41) Audacy to cut 25% of the staff in Pineapple Podcast division (52:10) Additional data on the drop of downloads from iOS 17 via Podtrac (53:22) Google podcasts is going away and next steps (55:06) PROMO 3: Stitchery Stories (55:26) Stats: User agents are back! (59:09) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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260 Exploring Podcast Rankings, Network Negotiations and Listener Education
01/23/2024
260 Exploring Podcast Rankings, Network Negotiations and Listener Education
How to determine your ranking compared to other podcasts and our perspective on it. The optimal methods for utilizing third-party and first-party podcast statistics. The crucial questions you should pose when considering a partnership with a podcast network. Insights into podcast app functionality, audience desires, and audience needs. We'll also cover statistics, including geographic and user agent data, and Rob's soapbox discussion on 'The Incredible Shrinking Podcast Industry,' and more! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:20) PROMO 1: Tales From The Pacific, episode 150! (3:47) Rob and Elsie conversation It's cold in Nashville! (5:00) Off to Podfest and the Podcasting Hall of Fame (6:00) What's going on at She Podcasts Live Unplugged (9:13) There is no all encompassing ranking system in podcasting (16:52) What to use Rephonic for and what not to use it for (24:28) The most important you need to ask for before you sign that podcast network deal! (26:38) Podcasting 2.0 thoughts (38:05) PROMO 2: The Strokecast, Tawnie The Neuro Mermaid (38:41) The YouTube Music podcast app is missing some vital things (40:23) Depending on what podcast app you are using, your podcast shownotes might not look the same (43:33) Earfluence acquires Podcast Ally! (45:18) Feedback please! Share your podcast marketing audience acquisition campaign data (46:57) PROMO 3: Old Skool with QueenE (47:33) Stats: Geographic and user agent (48:50) Commentary on "The Incredibly Shrinking Podcasting Industry" (50:38) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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259 The Growth of Podcast Advertising And Podcast Marketing Real Talk
01/09/2024
259 The Growth of Podcast Advertising And Podcast Marketing Real Talk
It's the new year, and that means new public domain works are available! Time to update the copyright for your podcast's RSS feed, preparing for the influx of new advertisers entering the world of podcasting in 2024. Google Search now featuring podcasts 👀 We're excited to announce the Podcast Hall of Fame inductees for the class of 2024! Additionally, we'll delve into real talk about podcast marketing, explore the latest podcast advertising rates, and so much more! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:03) PROMO 1: The Forgotten Podcast (4:23) Rob and Elsie conversation (5:08) The new works entering the public domain (12:16) Discussing the estimation of growth in podcast advertising (17:14 ) Elsie's wish for advertising (19:10) The Digiday audience, fighting for audience (23:13) PROMO 2: Video Fuzzy (23:42) Google's podcast results right at the top of the page on a couple of browsers! And thoughts on how those results are coming up (32:08) Congrats to the winners of Canadian Podcast Awards (33:51) Announcing the 2024 Podcast Hall of Fame inductees! (38:50) Audio feedback from Nobilis! (40:08) Wrong titling? Wrong category? Gaining 20% audience? Laying down some real advice to a podcast (47:09) Diving straight into some very insightful data on podcast marketing trends The real data on how many video podcasts are in Apple Podcasts (1:04:00) PROMO 3: REMelations - Comedy Dream Interpretation (1:06:27) No mean and median numbers; yes, the latest podcast advertising rates (1:09:40) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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258 Free Speech and 2024 Podcast Predictions Begin
12/19/2023
258 Free Speech and 2024 Podcast Predictions Begin
All the predictions discussion for 2024, including how the election year and podcast advertising intersect and expectations about social media podcast marketing and growth. A free speech soapbox from Rob; from RSS to newsletters; the video to podcast RSS feed workflow; discussing the casualties of the podcasting bloodbath, yikes! Details about a 301 redirect plus geographic and user agent and a bit of a deep dive into the Apple Podcasts iOS 17 update and how that affected download numbers! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:19) PROMO 1: Breakbeat Week (3:21) Rob and Elsie conversation (4:19) Rob on free speech (11:17) We have a predictions blog post we'd love for you to check out! (12:01) Rob's 2024 podcasting predictions (19:02) Elsie's 2024 podcasting predictions (27:09) Have you watched the podcasting predictions video on YouTube? (28:43) If you added a video component to your podcast this year we want your feedback! (30:18) Automatic an email to go out when a podcast publishes (34:23) Sourcing images for your podcast (38:18) PROMO 2: Leaving Well (39:40) Video uploads to RSS feed workflow (44:08) Would there be any issues using a slash character in a podcast character? (45:16) Discussing the casualties of the podcasting bloodbath (53:12) Questions about a 301 redirect (55:21) PROMO 3: The Extraordinary Project's "Finding Dawn" (56:48) Stats: geographic (57:48) iOS 17 affects on Apple Podcasts downloads (1:08:35) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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257 Apple Podcasts vs Spotify 2023 Podcast Charts and Castro Closure?
12/05/2023
257 Apple Podcasts vs Spotify 2023 Podcast Charts and Castro Closure?
What do the most popular podcasts in 2023 from Apple and Spotify have in common? Is Elsie's beloved Castro App closing down? Submitting your show to the Black Podcasting directory, tips for inviting a celebrity to be a guest on your podcast. Seasonal audience vs weekly audience, which is best? And the latest podcast advertising rates! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (1:53) PROMO 1: The Reframeables (2:23) Rob and Elsie conversation (2:48) The sad news about the Castro App (21:02) Apple Podcasts shares the most popular podcasts of 2023! (22:12) Apple Podcasts vs Spotify top podcast lists (30:52) Rob's post production workflow (36:16) Submitting your podcasts into the Black Podcasting App (37:43) PROMO 2: Creatively Shaded (38:56) Getting celebrities to come on your podcast (45:19) Do you need to update the player embed codes on all these sites? (47:00) Is it better to release weekly or seasonal podcasts? (51:28) Changing the URL for your podcast website (53:30) PROMO 3: To All The Men I've Tolerated Before (54:36) Advertisecast's latest podcast advertising rates (1:00:45) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly and share it on social! It would mean the world ☺️ Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcasts! → Follow via → Subscribe on → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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256 Protect Your RSS Feed!
11/21/2023
256 Protect Your RSS Feed!
Do you know any program to replace Levelator? More insight into YouTube Music and YouTube proper; getting offered 3k to be a guest on a podcast, Audio Hijack now transcribes; when your shownotes don't look the way you want them to look; make sure if you join a network you can see your stats! Zoom is getting fancy; more on the AI conversation, and stats! Geographic and user agents! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:32) PROMO 1: Beyond 6 Seconds (3:32) Rob and Elsie conversation Rob update on his computer woes (6:12) Do you know of a replacement for Levelator or Auphonic on an M3 Mac? (8:46) Updates to Libsyn 5 player (10:25) The Feed glow up is still happening and we have a new website landing page (13:52) More questions about YouTube Music, audio feedback from Steve Stewart (18:44) Scam alert! It it sounds too good to be true, it probably is (23:13) Audio Hijack has transcripts now! (25:34) PROMO 2: Whale Tales (26:42) When your shownotes don't look perfect across all podcast apps (31:05) Protect your RSS feed and Rob shares why (39:12) Zoom and all the AI things it currently does (44:45) Feedback on AI content generation, audio feedback from Nobilis (55:56) PROMO 3: Dodge This (56:41) Stats, geographic and use agent! (1:00:48) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you get your podcast! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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255 Should You Use The YouTube RSS Feed Ingestion?
11/07/2023
255 Should You Use The YouTube RSS Feed Ingestion?
Advertisecast's Winning Advertising Playbook panel at Advertising Week; all the FAQs about the YouTube Music RSS feed ingestion; the differences between YouTube Music and YouTube proper and which one is for you and your podcast, big fakes in 2024, reverb removal follow up, keep a back up of your files! More best practices on changing branding and titles and our latest stats mean and median download numbers Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:12) PROMO 1: The Strokecast (2:46) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:55) Rob's MacBook issue (6:56) Spooky Apple event (9:24) Emerging Podcast Advertising Trends from Advertising Week New York 2023 (13:15) All the podcaster questions about the new YouTube RSS feed ingestion! (37:18) Deep fakes, deep fakes! (48:38) Follow up on creating a book from your podcast - Magic Bookifier (50:35) PROMO 2: Diabetes Connection Type 2 (52:11) Follow up on echo removal! DeRoom (53:47) Audio examples using DeRoom (55:00) Workflow and best practices for renaming your podcast files (59:13) Follow up on putting your audio podcasts into YouTube proper with a static image (1:02:49) How to have an archive of all of your podcast episodes (1:07:26) Connecting to your YouTube channel via the Libsyn Destination (1:08:43) Advice on title, artwork and other things (1:16:56) PROMO 3: Calm History (1:18:08) Stats: Mean and Median Numbers (1:22:21) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your X followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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254 Apple Podcasts Download Changes
10/24/2023
254 Apple Podcasts Download Changes
We are an award winning podcast about podcasting and we got a glow up! The latest update on automatic download improvements from Apple Podcasts and iOS 17, holiday submission times (especially if you're launching a new thing in 2024), tips on renaming your show, touching on what's up at WNYC and the Airr podcast app, tracking how a listener found your podcast and stats, geographic and user agent. Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:24) PROMO 1: Strokecast (2:54) Rob and Elsie conversation A moment to comment on the state of the world (4:42) We are an award winning podcast and we got a glow up (7:12) Automatic download improvements per Apple (17:51) Holiday hours time! (19:45) The Shure MVX2U does work with the iPhone 15 (23:22) Tips and workflow for renaming your show (36:48) "We've made the difficult decision to sunset Airr" (40:07) PROMO 2: Video Fuzzy (40:36) When AI editors cut off the "sh" sound (43:34) How to track if a listener found out about the podcast through an advertisement or a specific sight There is no algorithm to catch if there's a new show (46:44) PROMO 3: Calm History (47:41) Stats, geographic and user agents! (56:00) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your X followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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253 Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce And The CRTC Chaos
10/10/2023
253 Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce And The CRTC Chaos
👀 ALL TIMECODES ARE OFF! We are an award nominated podcast! The Latino Podcast Listener Report 2023; Advertisecast's partnership with Leo Skepi's Aware and Aggravated; Google podcasts going away and what you need to know; The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission is making things problematic and confusing (Rob W has many thoughts); the difference between user agents and destinations; the new Shure SM7db; the Wireless Pro from Rode; and stats! Mean and median numbers, plus the latest podcast advertising rates. (timecodes are off because I had to replace the file!) Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (3:04) PROMO 1: Legends From The Pacific, Hawaii's Missing Diver (3:42) Rob and Elsie conversation We are an award nominated podcast! Congrats to us! (7:33) Google Podcasts is going away and what you need to know 😮💨 (13:42) Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission with the worst law passed in 2023 (17:26) Pushkin and Sony Podcasts both had major layoffs to their teams (19:08) What's the difference between User Agent and Destination? (21:35) Echo removers! Do you have one that you love? (23:14) Yes, we do talk about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Hmmmmm the guests feature in Apple Podcasts sometimes does weird things (31:11) Rob shares about a new under $100 microphone, the Fifine Dynamic XLR/USB mic (33:09) PROMO 2: Your podcast promo here! (34:38) The amazing new Shure SM7db! (40:53) The Rode Wireless PRO is so cool (45:23) Latino Podcast Listener Report 2023 key findings (50:22) AdvertiseCast Strikes Exclusive Advertising Partnership with Viral Social Media Influencer Leo Skepi's “Aware & Aggravated” Podcast (51:53) Another loss for our community with the passing of radio host Mark Friedo Friedman (52:33) PROMO 3: Calm History (53:28) Stats, mean and median numbers (55:42) Monthly advertising rates (57:57) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your X followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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252 The Podcasting Minimum Guarantee
09/19/2023
252 The Podcasting Minimum Guarantee
ABC Audio Announces Exclusive Multi-Year Podcast Advertising Partnership with Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast, using the Shure MVX2U on the field, thoughts on Minimum Guarantees in podcasting, The Latino Podcast Listener Report 2023 is coming as is an amazing Pre-report networking event called Monetizing Latine Podcasts! All kinds of cool podcasting tools and workflows, so much feedback on feed swaps and feed drops, my love for Matter, and of the latest geographic and user agents Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:01) PROMO 1: Pick My Adventure Show (2:52) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:34) ABC Audio Announces Exclusive Multi-Year Podcast Advertising Partnership with Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast (6:46) Rob test recording of the Shure MVX2U (7:42) Rob thoughts on using the Shure MVX2U (9:32) Claritas has acquired ArtsAI (10:05) Chatting about the Theo Von clip and Exposing a Podcast Scam (11:23) Talking about minimum guarantees (23:38) The Latino Podcast Listener Report is back! (27:09) Promo 2: Obstacle Running Adventures (28:01) Audio feedback from Steve Stewart about the future of YouTube (30:44) Learning about podcast adobe mic check (32:18) Growing your audience with feed drops (33:07) Audio feedback from Dave about feed drops Update from Sheryl about her feed swap (38:04) A YouTube channel, and should you push an audio version of your podcast if you already have a video version? (43:38) Losing podcast producer John Biethan, R.I.P. (44:36) Do you know of an AI tool that can help to turn all of your podcasts episodes into a book? (48:33) Elsie loves Matter and why (54:28) Promo 3: Calm History (55:15) Stats: geographic and use agent (59:35) Advertisecast monthly advertising rates (1:02:40) Rob recap of BNM Summit - radio loves podcasting now (1:10:20) Where have we been? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio PROMO 1: PROMO 2: PROMO 3: Audio feedback: Audio feedback: Audio feedback: Where have we been and where are we going Work with me! Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your X followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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251 It's Ok To Only Have An Audio Podcast and Linkfire Excitement
09/05/2023
251 It's Ok To Only Have An Audio Podcast and Linkfire Excitement
Podcast Movement recap! YouTube supporting RSS feeds by end of year, Triton has integrated with Youtube metrics, commentary on video vs audio and why it's ok to just have an audio podcast, Libsyn Unveils “LibsynEDU” to empower educators and students in podcasting, Apple announces subscription analytics, more delegated delivery partners and Linkfire for podcasts, Relay.FM launched their annual St. Jude fundraiser! The Shure MVX2U USB interface and stats, mean and median numbers! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:18) PROMO 1: The Strokecast episode on tone basics (2:48) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:12) Podcast Movement recap (9:24) YouTube to support RSS feeds Triton integrates YouTube podcast metrics (12:25) HotPod quotes Rob (13:42) You do not have to do video if you are in podcasting or are looking to get into podcasting (28:27) PROMO 2: The Modern.NET Show (29:25) Libsyn releases LibsynEDU! (36:51) We have excitement about the Apple Podcasts announcement about Linkfire (47:28) The September Apple event has been announced (49:06) Relay.FM just launched their annual St. Jude fundraiser! (51:22) We are loving the Shure MVX2U USB interface (59:04) Strike Force Five has launched (1:00:30) PROMO 3: Mash Matters (1:01:10) Mean and median numbers (1:03:42) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your X followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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250 No, It's Not Censorship
08/22/2023
250 No, It's Not Censorship
Alex Cooper from Call Her Daddy launches her own network called “Unwell” and media habits of Gen Z, nope, Apple was not censoring, Rob breaks down Glenn Beck's RSS feed (although the takedown was all about a trademark issue. MacWhisper! Podcast Audio Quality Grader, Squadcast joining Descript and all kinds of libsyn PR releases! Chuck Cargile as New Chief Financial Officer, Libsyn's Advertisecast signs Exclusive Ad partnership with Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People podcast! Predictive Contextual Targeting for Enhanced Podcast Advertising Precision and Effectiveness And stats! Geographic and user agent! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (3:17) PROMO 1: 7sumwhere (3:37) Rob and Elsie conversation (5:17) Libsyn welcomes Chuck Cargile as new chief financial officer (8:40) Libsyn's Advertisecast signs exclusive partnership with Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People (10:52) Best practices for getting your podcast artwork ready (16:10) Apple did not censor Glenn Beck (19:10) MacWhisper! (21:01) Follow up for Feedswaps (26:39) PROMO 2: The Strokecast, the PFO episode (27:33) Alex Cooper from Call Her Daddy launched her own network called "Unwell" (29:17) The media habits of Gen Z (33:00) Oh! A way to grade your podcast! (34:12) Squadcast joins Descript (35:08) When a podcast doesn't update on 3rd party apps (39:02) The difference between evergreen and timely (41:07) Libsyn introduces predictive contextual targeting (46:34) Promo 3: The Next Feed (48:56) Stats! Geographic and user agents (53:45) Where have we been and where are we going! Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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249 How Is The SAG/AFTRA Strike Affecting Podcasters?
08/08/2023
249 How Is The SAG/AFTRA Strike Affecting Podcasters?
How the SAG and AFTRA strike is affecting podcasts and podcasters, how do feedswaps impact your listeners and do they really work for podcast growth? 2 USB mics one computer and Libsyn's Connect, will it work? X vs Threads, how best to technically rebrand your podcasts, Libsyn's Advertisecast signs exclusive deal with Multitude and Upfire Digital, and the latest mean and median numbers and podcast advertising rates Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:52) PROMO 1: Video Fuzzy (3:17) Rob and Elsie conversation (5:52) Exclusive advertising deal between AdvertiseCast, and podcast network partners: Multitude and Upfire Digital. (9:59) Yes, we are taking podcast cards over to Podcast Movement! (11:49) Thoughts on how the SAG/AFTRA strike is affecting podcasters (29:47) Can you use 2 USB mics, one computer and Libsyn's Connect? (32:16) Opinions about podcast feedswaps (39:13) PROMO 2: 50 Date Night Screams (39:49) AI transcriptions into other languages for podcasts (42:39) The difference between Libsyn 4 and Libsyn 5 (45:50) X vs Threads (50:08) Libsyn's Connect comes thru! (51:39) The best and worst way to rebrand your podcast (54:08) PROMO 3: The Irish and Celtic Music Podcast (55:20) Stats mean and median podcasts (57:22) The monthly advertising CPM rates (59:49) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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248 Podcast Trailers and Profanity In Podcast Titles
07/25/2023
248 Podcast Trailers and Profanity In Podcast Titles
Best practices for podcast trailers, interesting titles for new podcasts that include profanity, Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Signs Exclusive Ad Partnership with Knock ‘Em Dead, and Big IP Media, the FTC's updated advertising guides to combat deceptive reviews and endorsements, workflows for re-sharing past episodes, the latest monthly podcast advertising rates and Stats! Geographic and user agent! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro (2:49) PROMO 1: Strokecast (3:18) Rob and Elsie conversation What happens when someone drops out while connected with Libsyn's Connect? (4:35) Happy 18th anniversary Jim Harold! (7:35) All of the Libsyn PR! Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Signs Exclusive Ad Partnership with Knock ‘Em Dead, A New Podcast by Rachel Bradley & Christopher Titus Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Re-Ups Exclusive Ad Partnership with The Commercial Break, the Leading Improv Comedy Podcast hosted by Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Signs New Exclusive Ad Partnership with Big IP Media (11:00) Best practices for releasing podcast trailers through Libsyn (18:12) How long does it take to update an episode in Apple Podcasts (19:50) Federal Trade Commission Announces Updated Advertising Guides to Combat Deceptive Reviews and Endorsements (25:18) New podcast titles best practices (28:31) Should you put profanity on in your podcast title? (37:45) Promo 2: Life is Feeling (39:08) Good tape! A podcast magazine (41:43) Re-releasing podcast episodes to your feed (50:42) How do you get "celebrity" types on your podcast? (54:27) Promo 3: Amateur Traveler (55:15) Stats: Geographic (56:25) What are the best distribution channels for a brand? And what does distribution mean? (59:39) Stats: user agent (1:03:42) The latest Advertisecast Podcast advertising rates (1:07:11) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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247 The IndiePod Manifesto, Goodbye Stitcher and Hello Threads
07/11/2023
247 The IndiePod Manifesto, Goodbye Stitcher and Hello Threads
We cover the Stitcher App closing down with some historical context we know you've never heard! The IndiePod Manifesto, Libsyn's Advertisecast and Twit deal! All about the new kid on the block… Threads from Meta, YouTube and RSS feeds, stats mean and median numbers! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:22) PROMO 1: Barriers to Entry (3:23) Rob and Elsie conversation (4:25) The sad news that Stitcher is closing down and a little bit of personal history What does it take to make a podcast app be profitable? (20:11) The IndiePod Manifesto, a breakdown (26:15) Do you want your podcast cards at Podcast Movement? (28:23) The worst email of the week (32:08) Advertising partnership with Advertisecast and TWiT! (33:40) Reading the 7, 30 and 90 day numbers in Libsyn 5 (38:48) PROMO 2: Find Your Dream Job (39:49) The Threads App (51:02) Audio Feedback from Kristin re: YouTube and RSS feeds (53:14) Tenchent is closing down Penguin FM (55:53) Sharing stats about our own podcast on YouTube (1:02:17) More on the Meghan and Harry Spotify debacle (1:03:57) PROMO 3: Queue Points (1:04:53) Stats: mean and median numbers (1:06:31) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie
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246 How Important is Podcast Episode Artwork?
06/27/2023
246 How Important is Podcast Episode Artwork?
Is podcast episode artwork worth having? The importance of podcast episode numbering and an update on how Apple Podcasts handles episode numbers. Apple improving podcast discovery through subcategories and charts, the addition of a new tab for languages, microphone shipping process to your guests! What chapter marks are good for, commentary on Spotify, Harry and Megan and celebrity podcasts and of course geographic and user agent stats! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary (2:38) PROMO 1: The Y in History (3:46) Rob and Elsie conversation (4:58) Our podcast newsletter feedback (7:23) How important is it to spend the extra time creating episode specific artwork? (19:01) If your show is set-up as episodic, Apple Podcasts in iOS 17 no longer shows episode numbers (33:08) Apple improves podcast discovery with nine subcategories and charts (34:12) Now you can search for podcasts by language! (38:55) Feedback on shipping your podcasts to your guests! via Liz Covart (46:51) PROMO 2: Grounded in Maine (47:28) Keeping a general show as a trailer at the top of the episode lists (48:58) What the heck are chapter marks and why would a podcaster use (54:14) A little bit about transcriptions and podcaster SEO (56:51) New podcast! Bonus promo: Blah Blah Blah (58:31) Bill Simmons, Spotify and Harry and Meghan (1:04:11) A little bit of data from Edison Research presented at She Podcasts Live virtual (1:10:30) PROMO 3: Childless Not By Choice (1:11:56) Stats: geographic and user agents (1:15:27) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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245 Apple Podcasts iOS 17 Updates and Spotify Layoffs
06/13/2023
245 Apple Podcasts iOS 17 Updates and Spotify Layoffs
Recap of WWDC 2023, iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 from the podcasters point of view, discussing Spotify laying off 25% of their podcast teams, feedback about The Podcast Show in London, the wonderful things about RSS, Castmagic and MacWhisper love! And of course stats mean and median numbers. Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro (2:29) PROMO 1: Rebound Revolution (3:41) Rob and Elsie conversation (4:43) The one thing that Rob feels was the most important announcement at WWDC (5:49) All things you need to know about Apple Podcasts iOS 17! (24:30) Should a single podcast also set up and add channel artwork? (28:01) Everything else you need to know about WWDC and our initial takes on Apple's Vision Pro (34:11) External cameras are supported on iPadOS 17 (35:23) PROMO 2: The Relaxed Male (36:01) Spotify laying off 25% of their Podcast Team (55:17) Bonus promo: Roseanne Barr is launching her podcast this week (56:30) Audio Feedback from the Podcast Show via Dave Jackson (1:00:03) Someone was claiming all their employees were let go and they needed access to the podcast - it was a lie (1:01:12) All the wonderful things RSS feeds do (1:07:25) Elsie is loving on Castmagic (1:13:50) Rob is loving on MacWhisper (1:16:09) PROMO 3: #CareFreeBlackGirl (1:20:32) Stats: mean and median download numbers Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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244 No Mentions of A nor I
05/30/2023
244 No Mentions of A nor I
Libsyn and Amazon Music Join Forces to Showcase Book-Related Podcasters, The decisions in Gonzales v Google and Twitter v Taamneh for podcasting, Workflow using the Libsyn social destinations calendar and great tips for using Libsyn Studio, The new Mackie DLZ Creator And data from the IAB Revenue Report for Podcast Advertising 2022 Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary Intro (1:55) PROMO 1: Within The Trenches (2:25) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:33) Libsyn and Amazon Music join forces to showcase book-related podcasters (6:08) Custom domains on Libsyn 5! (9:12) Looking to plan uploading your episodes through the summer? We have the workflow (15:07) The rulings that leave Section 230 untouched (19:37) Audacity workflows (22:34) Kast Media's acquisition by Live One (22:59) Using the social media calendar within Libsyn The best way to remove an episode from your feed (26:45) Transitioning pre-recorded live streams to podcast episodes with an added intro using Libsyn Studio (29:21) Best way to track ROI when running a promotional campaign in another podcast (30:12) Updating Apple Podcasts information within Libsyn and why (35:23) PROMO 2: Pub Songs (36:01) The new Mackie DLZ Creator (41:34) A way to use podcast RSS feeds (43:54) A podcast player that can search descriptions for Android (46:19) Fixing screwed up bullet points in shownotes (49:08) Google says it will delete inactive gmail accounts (50:42) Worst email of the week (53:48) Promo 3: 3 Pillars Podcast (54:33) Stats: IAB Revenue Report for Podcast Advertising for 2022 (58:03) Where have we been where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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243 Can Twitter Become The Number One Podcast Platform?
05/16/2023
243 Can Twitter Become The Number One Podcast Platform?
Exclusive deal between Libsyn's Advertisecast and The Newsworthy! Pros and cons on shipping a microphone to your guests, how Twitter can become the world's number-one podcast platform, sharing YouTube stats for The Feed, comments on AI from Spotify, automatic silencing from Auphonic, the best microphone for wireless buds per The Verge and as always, stats: geographic and user agent Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary Intro (2:25) PROMO 1: Video Fuzzy (2:58) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:47) We are sponsoring How To Make A Breakout Hit Podcast! (5:17) Libsyn's Advertisecast announced an exclusive advertising deal with The Newsworthy (7:13) Small change in UI in Libsyn 5 (8:28) All kinds of podcasting advertising spend data (11:10) The pros and cons about sending guests a microphone (20:15) Help Rob! Website that find LUFS and supports mono (22:17) How to make Twitter the number one platform to consume podcasts (30:31) Shout-out to Kamuela Kaneshiro for getting his first audiobook book out there! (32:25) A question about video podcasts (36:35) YouTube podcasts stats from The Feed (46:06) Audio feedback about long podcasts on YouTube with music (47:56) PROMO 2: Irish and Celtic Music Podcast (48:36) AI comments from Spotify (55:26) Good stuff from Auphonic! Automatic silence cutting for your podcast (59:15) Test of microphone earbuds via The Verge (1:01:48) Best practices for naming a fancast podcast Backtracks closing down (1:04:35) PROMO 3: Weird Darkness (1:05:10) Stats: geographic and user agents (1:10:28) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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242 Podcasts on YouTube Music NOW
05/02/2023
242 Podcasts on YouTube Music NOW
Podcasts are now in YouTube Music, and speaking of that, The Feed is now on YouTube! Yahoooo! The new RODE podcasting gear, Voicemod, Hindenburg 2, promo creation workflows, the importance of show titles, feedback on Adobe Podcasts, the best laptop mics, download stats, mean and median numbers! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro (2:10) PROMO 1: The Manwhore Podcast (2:39) Rob and Elsie conversation (4:51) Podcasts now available in YouTube Music (11:14) The Feed is now on YouTube! (18:32) Rob was at NAB and he got a chance to play with the latest RODE products! (18:57) Voicemod is now available for Mac, let us know if you use it (27:53) Hindenburg Pro 2 is out of beta (29:26) Batch producing your 30 second episode audio promos via Bill from The Strokecast (33:35) Tips for making sure that your one word title for your podcast is as effective as possible (38:56) PROMO 2: Podcasting Tips From My Front Porch (39:44) Why people listen to podcasts according to PEW Research (42:09) Adobe Podcast and the IA powered audio enhancement features, feedback from Brian (45:56) Report from IAB UK on ad spend in 2022 (46:56) Episodes being taken down from Spotify because of 3rd party music, specifically from Universal Music Group (50:19) Miss-reporting about Joe Rogan not being renewed by Spotify (51:43) The Verge comparing 6 different lap top mics to record (54:59) Did you know The Feed has a newsletter? Subscribe! (59:43) Getting rid of the unique stats filter and why diversity in filtering stats is important (1:03:33) PROMO 3: Horror Stories Podcast (1:04:09) Stats: mean and median numbers (1:05:56) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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241 Video Podcasting Workflow and Podcasting AI Tools
04/18/2023
241 Video Podcasting Workflow and Podcasting AI Tools
Spanish language integration into the Libsyn platform, Optimizing your podcast for language, creating audio versions of written text and other AI podcasting tools, how to video podcasts on libsyn, best practices for one word title shows, tips for small business owners launching a podcast and of course, stats: geographic user agents! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro (1:50) PROMO 1: The Chill Factory (2:27) Rob and Elsie conversation (3:39) Libsyn publishing and content management is now available in Spanish (5:54) Optimization and workflows for Spanish language podcasts (13:57) Tool to create an audio version of blog stories (15:12) Spotify is shutting down Spotify Live App (15:12) The Volley App is shutting down (18:24) How to best port over audio podcasts and video podcasts (21:01) Can you record video and audio on Libsyn? (21:55) Software to record video (23:24) Workflow for uploading podcasts into Libsyn and YouTube (24:45) Is a one word title for a podcast a good idea? (31:37) The Strokecast plan to take over the world! (35:13) PROMO 2: The Strokecast (35:58) Behringer's two new mixers (37:05) 4 Things every small-business owner should consider before launching a brand Podcast (42:55) Adobe podcasts! (45:52) And more AI in podcasting (49:55) PROMO 3: Weird Darkness (50:28) Stats: Geographic and User Agents (59:57) Where we've been and where we're going Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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240 Stats Move To Libsyn 5 Plus iOS 16 Voice Isolation
04/04/2023
240 Stats Move To Libsyn 5 Plus iOS 16 Voice Isolation
Libsyn 4 stats moving to Libsyn 5, Libsyn’s Glow launches Spotify Open Access! Libsyn appoints Patrick Dolan as Chairman of the Board, voice isolation in iOS 16.4 and how that affects podcasters, podcasting history via an Audio Hijack story, the Podcast Standards Project, podcasting is a secondary activity and what that means for podcast production, stats mean and median numbers and so much more! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message on ! We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro (2:48) PROMO 1: The Perfect Stool (3:18) Rob and Elsie conversation (7:14) Stats will be moving to Libsyn 5 and they will default to IAB (10:28) Libsyn’s Glow launches Spotify Open access (13:18) New Chairman of the Board! Welcome Patrick Dolan! (15:37) PROMO 2: Beyond The Todo List (16:51) A new fun feature in iOS 16.4 that might affect podcasters: voice isolation (23:03) Shout-out to Steve Goldstein as a new adjunct professor for NYU’s Steinhardt School for the business of podcasting (24:25) Audio Hijack, Steve Jobs and podcasting (28:48) Google adding “perspectives” and “about this author” (32:01) About Podcast Standards (34:52) Podcast listening is a secondary activity aka on the go! (39:42) Why you need to verify your Google account before posting video content longer than 15 minutes (42:14) Making sure your stats start on publish day (45:39) This week’s niche new podcast is the Commish Chat, An NBHL Podcast (47:16) What to do when your podcast doesn’t appear in the category that you chose to appear in (55:32) PROMO 3: 5 Minute Career Hack (56:01) Stats: mean and median numbers (57:57) Where have we been and where are we going Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We’d love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here’s our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412–573–1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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239 Considering The End User Workflow
03/19/2023
239 Considering The End User Workflow
Meredith Krantz appointed as Director of Brand Partnerships for Libsyn's Advertisecast, debrief on Podcast Movement Evolutions 2023, can an audio interface support a USB-C microphone? How to best know your real audience size, does an excerpt of something interesting at the top of your episode help with retention of audience? Chapter marks follow up! The best link to add to your shownotes for social, layoffs and privacy updates and of course geographic and user agent stats! 📌 Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary Intro (1:56) PROMO 1: The Fiction Podcast Weekly (2:23)Rob and Elsie conversation Rob is looking for podcasters that are attending NAB! (3:13) Announcing the appointment of Meredith Krantz as Director of Brand Partnerships 🔥 (5:28) Podcast Movement Evolutions recap from Rob! Considering the end user workflow --- your audience matters! (23:46) Can you plug in a USB-C microphone into an audio interface? Audio feedback from Dylan (28:22) Some new and updated hardware from Shure and Rode! (33:52) How do you know what your audience number is when your numbers switch from AIB certified to non-AIB certified? (40:12) PROMO 2: Childless Not By Choice (41:01) Should all Libsyn Destinations be enabled? (41:24) Do you have to sign up for individual accounts for each account? (42:38) If someone plays a podcast from a player embedded on a webpage is it a download? (46:50) Tips on making the first 30 seconds from an interview show help people listen (49:47) The week's new niche podcast name! (52:07) Follow up on chapter marks (53:46) How to optimize social links across all podcast apps? Audio feedback from Brad (56:35) Industry news (58:26) PROMO: Daily Magic For Peace (58:59) Stats, geographic and user agent (1:01:59) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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238 Podcasts In YouTube Music and Measuring Distinct Listeners
03/07/2023
238 Podcasts In YouTube Music and Measuring Distinct Listeners
The best Rob podcasting catchphrase ever, Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Signs Exclusive Ad Partnership with The Viall Files, Podcasts in YouTube Music! Which gets us into YouTube + Podcasts mini Q&A, budget audio gear to send to a guest interview to uplevel their audio, I am really excited about Hindenburg 2 Beta, more follow up on Apple Podcasts subscription questions, what’s new for Apple Podcasts in iOS 16.4, How are distinct listeners measured? Stats mean and median, Libsyn Connect data and Advertisecast CPM rates Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro (2:10) PROMO 1: Tomorrow's Legends (2:50) Rob and Elsie conversation (4:17) Create artwork like there is no description, create descriptions like there is no artwork (5:28) Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Signs Exclusive Ad Partnership with The Viall Files (9:21) The YouTube announcement like YouTube Music adding podcasting (26:06) Audio feedback: budget podcasting gear to recommend to a guest via Robonzo (33:19) Elsie loving on Hindenburg 2 beta (38:40) Audio feedback: can Libsyn Connect work in tandem with Streamyard? via John (44:14) PROMO 2: The Wild West Extravanganza (45:03) New interesting podcast name: HVAC Sweat, Purge & Roll (46:12) Oh no! We forgot to change our own copyright! (47:34) Does placing episodes on Apple Podcast Subscriptions remove them from other destinations? (48:22) Is there anything in the terms and conditions with Apple that prevent posting the Premium content to a Patreon RSS feed? (49:57) Can you pull the plug on a premium offering with Apple Podcasts if it doesn't work for a show? (51:02) How much content to place in the Premium category based on our stats? (52:33) What's new on Apple Podcasts in iOS 16.4 (55:45) Audio feedback: what exactly are distinct listeners and how do you measure those? via Andrea (58:46)PROMO 3: Glass in Session (59:16) Stats, mean and median, Connect and Advertisecast average CPM rates (1:04:53) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Robonzo from ! Andrea from Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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237 Podcasting Is Just Fine
02/21/2023
237 Podcasting Is Just Fine
Video podcasting soapbox from Rob, an update on Google Podcast search from Google, discussing the Sonic Bloom awards, another doom and gloom article, this time from the NYTimes, Apple Podcasts subscriptions workflows and examples, Alexa and podcasting FAQs, what's on Elsie's hardware wish list from Rode, Hindenburg Beta 2 is out, podcast marketing trends survey, mean and median download stats and so much more! 📌 Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on ! We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! Quick Episode Summary Intro (2:11) PROMO 1: Daily Radio Podcast (3:15) Rob and Elsie conversation Mandalorian chat (5:22) Video podcasting soap box from Rob (10:53) Chapter marks have been around for a while! They are not new! (18:13) Google podcast search update from the Google team (21:30) What are the Sonic Bloom awards? (25:26) NY times article on the podcasting industry (29:14) How's the twitter migration to Mastodon going? (34:03) PROMO 2: Thursday the 12th (34:32) Tips and workflows for using Apple Podcasts subscriptions (39:09) An awesome new niche podcast title (42:47) How fast are Connect recordings available after the interview? (44:42) Alexa podcasting search problems (46:54) On Elsie's wishlist: Rode's NTH-100M (50:25) Hindenburg Pro 2 Beta is out! (52:33) Podcast marketing survey! Fill it out and help us all out (53:51) What happens when you submit your show into Apple Podcasts? (56:48) PROMO 3: The Mandalore (57:57) Stats: geographic and user agent (1:01:22) Where have we been and where are we going? Featured Podcast Promo + Audio Where have we been and where are we going Thank you to Nick from for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. ! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly ! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via → Follow via → Follow via → Here's our ! FEEDBACK AND PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for and Call 412-573-1934 Email [email protected] Use our
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