Audience
Join audio producer Stuart Barefoot as he goes behind the scenes of all different kinds of podcasts to uncover their creative process.
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Formatting for a niche podcast
“No one ever says that we should stop publishing books.” is the thought that popped into Stuart’s head while he visited a bookstore in today’s episode. After returning, he and Matt chat about finding a niche for your podcast. With over 4 million podcasts published at podcastindex.org and 2 million+ in Apple’s directory, you might ... Read more
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You (Probably) Need a Producer w/ Alex Lewis
What does a producer actually do anyway? Well, it varies from one project to the next but the best podcasts often utilize the services of a producer or multiple producers. So for this episode, Stuart chats with Alex Lewis, an audio producer and musician. Alex has been a radio and audio producer for more than ... Read more
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Building a Subscription Podcast in Public with Jonathan Jones
Are you curious about subscription podcasting? Do you know what a private podcast is? Are you scared about jumping into private podcasting? On this episode of the Audience podcast, Jonathan Jones and Matt do a little experiment with subscription podcasting. Jonathan is going to build a subscription podcast (at Castos) in public, with Matt. Today ... Read more
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Starting a paid members-only podcast w/ Joe Casabona
Joe Casabona joins the Audience podcast today to talk about his journey as a podcast creator. Joe produces a mix of podcasts in the web, WordPress and podcasting space. Matt and Joe cover some of the ways you can monetize a public podcast. Including digital products, courses, memberships, ads and more. Joe has found balance ... Read more
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Planning and Producing a Great Interview Show
On this episode of the Audience podcast, Matt and Stuart talk about what it takes (behind the scenes) to make a great podcast, with examples from the 3 Clips podcast. They talk about best practices and their processes when it comes to booking guests, pre-interviews, monetization, and editing. Not only do they touch on a ... Read more
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Steal this podcast listener survey!
Today I'm hoping you can share in the improvement of the Audience podcast by taking part in our survey. Head there now at https://castos.com/survey As you might know, Season 2 of our other podcast 3 Clips has come to close. That means Stuart will be joining us more regularly on Audience. We have some new ... Read more
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Creating an audio experience w/ Eric Nuzum
Technology is only good if it solves a problem. In the case of podcasting it definitely does solve problems. It’s basically broken down all major barriers to access when it comes to creating and distributing your audio. But creating a good podcast is so much more than simply choosing the right microphones, the best software ... Read more
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Create your own subscription podcast w/ Stripe and Castos
Today I’d like to talk about creating your own subscription podcast without the middle man taking a cut of your revenue. Before we get too far down into the blueprint for monetizing your podcast, there are some hard requirements I’m mentioning in this episode: Why start a subscription podcast over advertising? What’s your knee-jerk reaction ... Read more
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Researching & Producing a Narrated Podcast with Paulina Salmas
On this episode of the Audience podcast, Matt interviews Paulina Salmas from An Eyesore and a Plague podcast. Paulina talks about how Twitter Spaces has changed podcasting and what it’s like to write and perform a scripted non-fiction podcast. Their discussion goes from podcasting, to the definition of a village, to Wurlitzer keyboards. Paulina’s passion ... Read more
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6 Ways to be a better podcast guest
Chances are, if you're listening to this episode, you produce a podcast. There's a 90% chance that podcast is an interview show. There's a 50% chance you've had a guest on said show that made you exhale a gigantic w-t-f was that when the conversation stopped. We've all had that guest. They sounded good on ... Read more
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Bob Ross: Finding Inspiration from Different Mediums
What can a soft-spoken painter teach us about podcasting? In this episode of the Audience podcast, Stuart talks about what we can learn from painting legend Bob Ross. While this beloved artist may have passed away nearly thirty years ago, he is still in the heads and hearts of many people today. Stuart talks with ... Read more
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Podcast 2.0 App Fountain.fm with Oscar Merry
Is Bitcoin an option for podcasters? What should you be doing right now when it comes to monetizing your podcast? In this episode of the Audience podcast, Matt is talking with Oscar Merry from Fountain. Fountain is an app that allows podcasters to share podcast clips with potential listeners and it allows listeners to support ... Read more