On Monday of this week President Obama was interviewed on the WTF show from Marc Maron (no Marc did not do his traditional f-bomb dropping into). It was a cool interview for many reasons. It seemed both men were somewhat nervous. The President seemed stoked to be in the garage, and Maron was audibly nervous…
The first episode of the Mystery show (the third show from Gimlet Media) who are the people behind The Startup and Reply All podcasts is now available. I love Startup. It has a story about a company and follows them for weeks. Recently Startup sent the first episode of the Mystery show down their feed….
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I did this test last year and I thought I would do it again. These stats are based on my Ask the Podcast Coach show that I do every Saturday morning and then release a podcast. 67% of my audience comes through my website. I use Libsyn.com to host this show (get a free month…
I have some basic criteria for Media Hosting: 1. Do not change my file name (the bit rate, the ID3 tags). 2. Give me stats 3. Give me support 4. Charge me for it. 5. Have integrity (no false advertising on your front page). 6. Make it easy to leave with my audience. (I can redirect my…
On a recent episode of rainmaker.fm, Jay Baer was talking about the podcasitng numbers from Eidson research and he made a great point: “Then you see research from people like Tom Webster at Edison that shows that podcast consumption has increased 25% in this country year over year to the point that 15% of Americans…
The podcast awards was a the most professional (and the least professional) awards show of the ten years. We’ve come a long way from Todd Cochrane shouting through a crappy PA system in California to a room that was too drunk to care. We’ve have had Leo Laporte host in a packed room, and last…
A while back I came up with a term for those people who are participating in actions that have no real benefit to their audience or to their show (Casturbation). Today I was listening back an episode I did where I talk about what happens when your content inspires your audience to tell someone. It…
Buzzfeed has said they are getting into podcasting to “connect with our audience in as many ways as we can.” “Jenna Weiss-Berman Buzzfeeds director of audio wrote, “Podcasting gives us a chance to bring our storytelling to life in a medium that is new and fresh to us. By hosting these sound-rich talk shows, our writers…