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Podcasters' Roundtable

164 EpisodesProduced by Ray Ortega, Dave Jackson, Daniel J. Lewis.Website

A rotating panel of guests who debate issues facing podcasters and podcasting as a media format. Each Roundtable features a new podcaster from the community of listeners to talk less about the how-to and more about the subjective issues facing podcast producers.

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113: Are Podcasts More Popular Than Blogs?

 

Have podcasts become more popular than blogs? What happens when you 'boost' a podcast post on facebook to promote your show and what's still wrong with the Google Podcasts App? This and more!

Join Ray, Dave, Daniel, Paul Colligan and Jonathan Bloom to talk about recent podcasting news.

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 Stories from this Round:

Ray Ortega

 

Title: The Daily starts being marketed, and the BBC wants a UK podcast chart

 

Main Takeaway:

URL: https://podnews.net/update/the-daily-marketing

Title: Donating to podcasts via an Amazon Alexa smart speaker

Main Takeaway:

URL: https://podnews.net/update/alexa-donations

 

Dave Jackson

 

Title:

Main Takeaway: 27% of people have three or more smart speakers listening to am/fm is #4 on the list of where do you listen to audio. People are calling podcast directing more

URL: https://www.nationalpublicmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Smart-Audio-Report-from-NPR-and-Edison-Research-Spring-2018_Downloadable-PDF.pdf



Title:What is Podchaser?

Main Takeaway: I don’t get it?

URL: https://www.podchaser.com/episodes

 

Daniel J. Lewis

 

Title: Podcasts More Popular than Blogs

Main Takeaway: I think “popularity” and “interest”/“usage”  are very different things

URL: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/podcasts/261447/

Interesting cross-reference from 2 years ago: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/18/the-future-of-podcasting/

Title: [Opinion] Castbox has not fixed the problem they created, and more Google Podcasts issues

Main Takeaway: Several podcasts still exist in Google Podcasts with a Castbox feed, instead of redirecting the feeds, they are simply broken. Also, I’ve discovered unintentional duplicates and omissions based on some podcaster oversights or Google’s method

 

Related Question posted in PR.com comments: Andy from photobizx.com: Hi Guys - I've submitted my Free podcast to Google and it's there and working fine but Google is also displaying my premium feed which I want to stop. Do you have any idea how to go about this?

 

URL: [none]

 

Paul Colligan

 

Title: I boosted a Facebook post to promote my podcast. Here are my results!

Main Takeaway:

URL: :2018-07-13" rel="nofollow"> https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasting/comments/8ye074/i_boosted_a_facebook_post_to_promote_my_podcast/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2018-07-13

Title: Podcasts More Popular than Blogs

Main Takeaway:

URL: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/podcasts/261447/

 

Jonathan Bloom

 

Title: TalkShoe is Relaunching

Main Takeaway: The featureset sounds amazing: doing mixing, call-ins, even streaming straight to YouTube Live from their site. All things I wish I could offset, as I have to use two computers for one of my shows to achieve this. The catch: FREE, I see NOWHERE where it is mentioned how to pay. As a creator, I have had my share of my own content go away from free hosts. Some of my early stuff was on Blip.tv’s free plans. I don’t want to see content people create gone and missing forever.

URL: http://podcasternews.com/2018/07/18/talkshoe-is-relaunching/

Title: From Podnews: Radiotopia launch Everything is alive today, interviewing inanimate objects about their daily life.

Main Takeaway: This shows the beauty of podcasting. I actually felt an emotional connection to the can of cola, Louis. This is a fictionalized podcast, but it shows how you can connect with a podcaster/guest. This helps with serious topics as well. I’ve had my perspective shifted because I heard someone describe why they believe something.

URL: http://www.everythingisalive.com/episodes/louis-can-of-cola

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