Is Apple going to start investing money in original podcasts? Spotify, Luminary, Stitcher, there are plenty of places that have podcasts that can only be consumed on a their own platform. Is that really a podcast? Does it matter if it's not? 

Join Ray, Dave, Daniel and Stephanie Fuccio to answer the question of whether Apple investing in podcast programming would be a good thing either for them or the podcast space.

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How many podcasts are in Apple Podcasts/iTunes and how many of those podcasts are actually producing regular episodes?

Join Ray, Dave, and Daniel to talk about the number of podcasts you are sharing real estate with and what it means to podfade.

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Podcasts, along with podcast audio players, are now surfacing in Google searches. Can yours be found? What exactly are these searches turning up and are they useful to your show?

Join Ray, Dave, and Evo Terra to talk about this new way to find podcasts and if they think it will get more people to listen to your show.

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Can your podcast be found anywhere people are looking for your podcast? How about places they aren't looking for traditionally defined podcasts (read: YouTube)? Where do you put your podcast? What platforms that support audio do you ignore or resist?

Join Ray, Dave, Andrew Clews and Paul Colligan to discuss your podcast's distribution.

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Do Apple Podcasts ratings and reviews move your podcast up the ‘charts?' Can you use copyrighted music as long as it’s only a few seconds? Is YouTube is a bad place to put your podcast?

Some of these you've heard, some of these you think are correct but what's the truth? Join this Round to bust or confirm some of the most common podcasting myths.

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2:15 Apple Podcasts Ratings and Reviews Move Your Podcast Up the Charts

8:00 You Can Use Copyrighted Music if it’s Only a Few Seconds

13:51 Podcast Media Hosting is the Same

20:00 Consistency is the Key to Success

25:43 There’s an Ideal Length for a Podcast

31:15 Podcasting has a Discovery Problem

41:30 You Need 10 of Thousands of Downloads Per Episode to Get Advertising

47:27 You Need to Launch with Multiple Episodes to Get the Most Impact

56:32 If You Build it, They Will Come

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Have you podfaded, feeling like you're close or maybe wish you could take a break? Starting a podcast is not the hardest part, keeping going is. How do we deal with the constant grind of content production?

Join Ray, Dave, and Bandrew (aka Podcastage) who is currently dealing with how to balance life, work, and content production. We'll discuss dealing with burnout as well as producing content for multiple platforms (podcasts, YouTube, etc.).

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Join Ray, Dave, Ginger Wiseman, and Emily Prokop to discuss podcast 'launches' (do they matter?), podcast artwork, how important is it, and more ways that tech is trying to 'solve' discovery.

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You have a podcast, that's probably why you're watching the Roundtable and you've probably recorded a bunch of episodes but do you create any other content to support your podcast? 

Join Ray, Dave, Jamie Eads, and Jessica Kupferman to discuss other ways to grow your podcast through content creation (e.g. should you be blogging too?). We'll also discuss news and stories in the podcasting space.

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Articles discussed:

Should You Also Be Blogging?

Podcaster Sued for Copyright Infringement for Using Music without Permission

Spotify’s increased focus on podcasts in 2019 includes selling its own ads

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Many podcasters will complain that 'the system' as it exists doesn't do enough to help grow their show. That they can't gain enough of an audience because they are locked out of the top charts or not part of a big network, but is that true? Is there more you could be doing for yourself to grow your show? Likely, yes. 

Join Ray, Dave, Evo Terra and Natalie Torres to discuss podcast audience growth, podcast networks, and more podcasting news and stories. 

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Articles discussed:

The Year of the DIY Podcast Network

How to explain to family what I do

The year in podcasts — never have our ears been so spoilt for choice

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