Hello friends! I need to republish an episode for work stuff, so I thought I'd share this one from 2021 again and say hello! Also I'd love to hear any questions you have about podcasts or podcasting, please visit this Google Form I set up and fill it out if you'd like to share your question(s)! Hope you've been well! Aaron Dowd, Fort Worth Texas November 16, 2023 --- My goal for this episode is to give you a big picture roadmap for how to start a podcast. You give me 30 minutes of your time,...

Good sound quality isn't the only thing you need to be successful in podcasting, but bad audio quality will cost you listeners. It only takes a few minutes to talk to your guest or co-hosts about their recording setup, but it can help you identify and prevent potential audio issues. The good news is that you don't have to spend a lot of money or have an expensive studio to record quality audio. You just need to know a few things about recording audio, and follow the tips and the recording...

Options for recording remote guests and co-hosts • The pros and cons of recording everyone to a single audio track • The pros and cons of recording an audio track for each person and putting them together later

Last episode I talked about mic technique and how to set gain levels. This week I'm going to talk about how the room you're recording in might affect the quality of your sound. The most important thing is to pay attention to how you sound in your room. The room you're recording in is probably only going to cause problems if there are a lot of hard surfaces that reflect your voice back enough to make it hard to understand what you're saying. If you hear an echo that bothers you, figure out...

Last week I talked about how to connect your microphone and headphones and make sure you're ready to start recording. This week I'm going to walk you through the basics of microphone technique and how to set the input gain levels (or recording levels) so you can sound good anytime you want to record some audio. Just a heads up: If you're listening to this episode in a podcast app, I'd recommend switching over to the YouTube video, as I believe it's easier to understand mic technique and...

Last week I talked about the importance of getting good sound for your podcast. I talked about why good sound matters, what it means when something sounds good, and why you should get yourself that nice podcast microphone you've been looking at. This week I want to talk about something that might seem basic to you if you've been podcasting for a while. I want to talk about connecting your microphone and headphones, and making sure you have your microphone (or audio interface) set as the...

I've been obsessed with things that sound good for as long as I could remember. I've always loved music and the effect it has on my body and brain, so I got interested in the process of creating and capturing sound when I was young. The first podcasts I started listening to back in 2008/2009 were professionally produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by folks who had been working in radio for a long time. So they sounded really good. Then I started listening to some shows produced by...

My goal for this episode is to give you a big picture roadmap for starting a podcast. This isn’t an exhaustive guide that covers absolutely everything you’ll need to know, but my hope is that it gives you enough information to help you start making progress on starting your own podcast.

Q from Chris Barber on Twitter: Can you talk about procrastinating on doing a podcast? Yes, I can! But first: A big thank you to DYork55 for the kind 5 star review on Apple Podcasts. DYork wrote: Big fan, super excited to hear that you’re back. I used to listen to pretty much every episode of the podcast dude, back when I was in the early process of launching my own podcast, The Seatown Funk. Since then, I’ve managed to avoid contracting Covid, but I was definitely stricken by podfading,...

If you've been following for more than a couple years, you know I used to host a podcast and YouTube channel called The Podcast Dude. I'm renaming and relaunching that show and calling it Podcasting With Aaron.

Special guest Juleyka Lantigua-Williams shares her strategy for audience growth and how it's helped her shows get over half a million podcast downloads so far and put them on the path to reach 1 million downloads by the end of the year. Here's what I learned in this episode: audience growth isn't something that magically happens once you start publishing episodes. If you want to grow your audience and get more listeners and fans, there's three important questions to ask yourself. These...

In this episode, Sean and I discuss his new mobile recording setup, the challenges of the paid membership model for podcasts, Spotify's recent moves in podcasting (Joe Rogan, etc), how to grow an audience for a podcast, the best ways to make money with a podcast, what most podcasters get wrong about podcast promotion on social media and what they should do instead, and so much more.

In this episode, we discuss: When is the right time to start looking for sponsors for a podcast? How does having a niche audience help you with finding sponsors? 3 things you should include in a proposal to a sponsor. Why getting brands excited about sponsoring podcasts needs to be a community effort. Questions to ask yourself before you start looking for sponsors. What Podcorn is, how it works, and more. This episode was recorded and published by Mathew Passy for the Podcast Me Anything...

(Repost from The Podcast News) Hey friends! Since there wasn't much in the way or podcast news or tutorials this week, I'm going to do something I don't normally do: I'm going to record an episode without a script, and talk about my experience with podcasting over the past 10 years, and why I'm optimistic about the future of podcasting.

This week: * Ollie Judge (podcast producer from the UK) argues that we need a new standard for how podcasts are delivered and consumed * Sonal Chokshi and Connie Chan from the A16Z podcast share a detailed behind-the-scenes looks at their production process * Amanda Hickman from AIR shares what she's learned about media salaries and pay rates in radio and podcasting * 6 tips about how to improve your interviews * How to make your podcast SEO-friendly * and more

This week: Why articles in audio format increase member loyalty, behind the scenes of podcast advertising, 10 things new podcasters can do to boost downloads, building a podcast studio from scratch, tools to make your podcasts sound good, startup opportunities in podcasting, and more.

My guest today is Steph Colbourn, founder of Edit Audio, a podcast consultation and production company whose clients include Harpers Baazar, Stack Overflow, Element AI, Cosmopolitan, If These Ovaries Could Talk, Glossier, Postlight, Tinder, and more. In this episode, we discuss how she got into podcast editing and production, how she connects with clients, her process for working with them and helping them be successful, what she's learned about launching and marketing shows, how she manages...

This week: Rev.com (popular online transcription service) lowers pay rates for their contract workers, Apple now allows you to hide new shows in Podcasts Connect while you wait for their review and approval, the podcast industry is grappling with the prospect of automated ads, Podsights looks at conversion rates for pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll podcast ads, and more.

This week I'd like to introduce The Podcast News, a new weekly news show for podcast producers. I'd like to share with you a few interesting articles and stories I found during the week of November 9th, 2019. This week: Pacific Content writes about what makes a great podcast host, Google and PRX launch a new Podcasting 101 series, and I'd like to know: Are you listening to podcasts on your smart home speaker? I share AIR's rates list for podcast engineering and composition with someone...

Seth Godin recently released a podcast episode about podcasts on his show, Akimbo. In his episode, he talks about the unexpected growth of podcasting as a form of media, why it's currently difficult to monetize a podcast, why podcasting will continue to grow, and more. To be clear, this episode is not a conversation with Seth Godin. I really just created this episode to share a link to this episode with you to encourage you to listen to it, because I think Seth has made some very important...

I drank a strong coffee around 5pm, and whenever I do that, I always end up in the mood to write something around 9pm. So I wrote and recorded this episode about what I think podcasting is. Hope you enjoy.

Ever wondered how to get a job as a professional podcast producer? I was checking out some job postings this past weekend and decided to share the most interesting postings I found in a Twitter thread. I got a great question from GR Johnson (@simonephoenix1) in response: “I was looking at some of these in the past couple of days, VERY interested, but if one hasn’t the experience, how does one go about 'snagging' gigs like these? I’m actually in a degree program for audio production, also,...

I wanted to make this episode to explain the basics of podcast RSS feeds: What an RSS feed is, why you need one, and a few other important things you need to know about them. My hope is that I can clear up a lot of the confusion and mystery around them so you can gain a better understanding of the relationship between podcast RSS feeds and the podcast apps and directories. Visit https://thepodcastdude.simplecast.fm/ for full episode notes and links.

My guest this week is Sidney Evans Jr. Sidney is a podcast editor and producer from Durham, NC (recently moved to Atlanta), who found his first client after joining a podcast editor's group on Facebook. He joined me for a discussion about getting started with podcast editing and production, the challenges of working in this new industry, what clients really value and pay for, and more. Visit https://thepodcastdude.simplecast.fm/ for full episode notes and links.