Podwrecked

Tim and Kyle take a deep dive into new data that exposes the overnight podcasting hit myth and reinforces the truth that podcasting requires hard work.

Episode at a Glance:

• Tim and Kyle experiment recording the podcast from a local coffee shop and discover that people like to ask questions when you put microphones on the table.
• We dig into the data within Dan Misener's article that supports why the podcasting long game strategy is STILL TRUE!
• We explore what behaviors are causing so many podflashes, podfades, and podwrecks.

What did we learn?

• There is no such thing as an overnight podcasting hit.
• Shows that have big audiences tend to do "these things" and how "these things" are all about common sense.
• Podcasters that do not stick with podcasting for at least 2-years do not have hit shows.
• Producing at least 100 episodes is the milestone to becoming a podcaster - you haven't even begun podcasting until you hit episode 100 (for one podcast or multiple).
• All the things that are hard in podcasting are still hard, but if you overcome them you have a good chance of gaining an audience.

Additional Reading:

• Podcast success: a long game

Industry Predictions:

• We will make it to the 50 episodes this year and we will make another 50 next year.
• We are going to see a lot more people do that one and done episode. But that's ok because they are going to learn to appreciate what goes into producing a podcast and they will become sponsors of podcasters who they like.

Industry Quotes:

• "An overnight success is ten years in the making."
  ― Tom Clancy, Dead or Alive

Reach out to Podwrecked:

• Email Us: podwrecked AT GMAIL DOT com
• All our Show Notes: podwrecked.com
• All our Episodes: podwrecked.libsyn.com

Podwrecked is a Gagglepod production. Learn more at gagglepod.com.

Episode #009

• We talk about Google’s June 2018 announcement of their stand-alone podcasting app launch.

• We do some thinking on why 55 percent of all US users and 86 percent of the world are on phones with the Android OS, but Google Podcasts only account for only 0.9 percent of total listens. Why?

What did we learn?

• The biggest complaint about Google Podcasts is that it’s an app and not native to Android OS like Apple Podcasts is to iOS.

• Even if someone DOES download the app, does the app have everything you want in a podcast-listening application? Only for those who don’t know what podcasting is

• Not everyone is in the Google Ecosystem… Yet! Google Podcasts is all about connecting people to Google Assistant and having a podcast player they can use in the car.

• This is not an attempt by Google to put your favorite podcast app out of business. This is Google’s on-ramp to podcasting if you’ve never listened to podcasts before.

• This is Google’s slow move toward the future where they move past directories and jump straight into audio indexing. Checkmate!

Additional Reading

• Why doesn’t anyone use Google Podcasts?

• Closed-captioning is coming to Google Podcasts

• Google app 9.0 preps Podcasts transcription, rounded Assistant, 9to5G shout-out

• Why the new Google Podcasts app is a big deal: and why there are no auto-downloads

• Making sense of Google’s podcast flip-flop

• Why is the Google Podcasts App Failing So Hard?

Quotes

“I think the power-listeners who criticize Google Podcasts for being too simple and misses the point. It’s like a wine connoisseur criticizing a child for drinking a Capri Sun.”
— Daniel J. Lewis

“The new podcast app is but one tiny piece of a much grander goal.”
— JR Raphael

Transcripts

• JSON Transcript

• SRT Transcript

Support the Show

Every episode is a work of passion that requires a lot of coffee! We research, read, record, mix, edit, and produce every episode ourselves.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could do two things for us:

1. FEEDBACK: Send us a quick note of encouragement to us. This keeps us going when times get tough!

2. VISIT: If you enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting our website at podwrecked.com!

Thank you for taking the time to listen. You are appreciated!

Start Your Own Podcast

Podwrecked is an Oncetold Production. If you need a partner in telling your podcast story, consider using oncetold.us.

Tim and Kyle take a deep dive into Google's strategy for putting practically zero effort into marketing their new podcast application: Google Podcasts.

Episode at a Glance:

• Tim and Kyle talk about Google's June 2018 announcement of their stand-alone podcasting app launch.
• Do some thinking on why 55 percent of all US users and 86 percent of the world are on phones with the Android OS, but Google Podcasts only accounts for only 0.9 percent of total listens. Why?

What did we learn?

• The biggest complaint about Google Podcasts is that it's an app and not native to Andriod OS like Apple Podcasts is to iOS.
• Even if someone DOES download the app, does the app have everything you want in a podcast listening application? Only for those who don't know what podcasting is
• Not everyone is in the Google Ecosystem... Yet! Google Podcasts is all about connecting people to Google Assistant and having a podcast player they can use in the car.
• This is not an attempt by Google to put your favorite podcast app out of business. This is Google's on-ramp to podcasting if you've never listened to podcasts before.
• This is Google's slow move towards the future where they move past directories and jump straight into audio indexing. Checkmate!

Additional Reading:

• Why doesn’t anyone use Google Podcasts?
• Closed-captioning is coming to Google Podcasts
• Google app 9.0 preps Podcasts transcription, rounded Assistant, 9to5G shout-out
• Why the new Google Podcasts app is a big deal: and why there are no auto-downloads
• Making sense of Google's podcast flip-flop
• Why is the Google Podcasts App Failing So Hard?

Predictions:

• NEW -- Google Podcasts will eventually be native to Android, will be on every phone, and become a "must have" app for podcast listeners within the next three (3) years.
• REVISIT -- #18 — We do think Google will double down on Audio Indexing in 2019, making audio content like podcasts searchable for the first time. It won’t be pretty, but it will get better in time and become part of their overall search tool.

Quotes:

• "I think the power-listeners who criticize Google Podcasts for being too simple miss the point. It’s like a wine connoisseur criticizing a child for drinking Capri Sun." -- Daniel J. Lewis
• "The new Podcasts app is but one tiny piece of a much grander goal." -- JR Raphael

Reach out to Podwrecked:

• Email us at -- podwrecked AT GMAIL DOT com
• Website: http://podwrecked.com

Podwrecked is a Gagglepod Production. Learn more at gagglepod.com.

Episode #008

• We explore the rise in True Crime podcasts

• We ask the question, “What is the difference between a journalist, reporter, commentator, and podcaster?”

• We talk about the thinking behind how and why podcasters need the same ethical education and standards as journalists

What did we learn?

• Podcasters should take a serious look at Ethical Storytelling and Reporting standards

• Anyone producing a podcast about news, true crime, or non-fiction should obtain press credentials

• We think that True Crime podcasters should start networking themselves together for safety and credibility.

Additional Reading

• Podcasts Could Spark a New Golden Age of Investigative Journalism

• An Australian podcast led to the arrest of man whose wife disappeared 37 years ago

• Audio Reportage

• Ethical Storytelling: Journalism and Media Literacy

• True Crime Podcasts

Transcripts

• JSON Transcript

• SRT Transcript

Support the Show

Every episode is a work of passion that requires a lot of coffee! We research, read, record, mix, edit, and produce every episode ourselves.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could do two things for us:

1. FEEDBACK: Send us a quick note of encouragement to us. This keeps us going when times get tough!

2. VISIT: If you enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting our website at podwrecked.com!

Thank you for taking the time to listen. You are appreciated!

Start Your Own Podcast

Podwrecked is an Oncetold Production. If you need a partner in telling your podcast story, consider using oncetold.us.

Tim and Kyle explore the claim that podcasting has sparked a new Golden Age of investigative journalism and do their own investigation into ethical storytelling standards.

Episode at a Glance:

• Tim and Kyle explore the rise in True Crime podcasts
• They start asking the question, "What is the difference between a journalist, reporter, commentator, and a podcaster?"
• Then comes the thinking behind how and why podcasters need the same ethical education and standards as journalists.

What did we learn?

• Podcasters should take a serious look at Ethical Storytelling and Reporting standards
• Anyone producing a podcast about news, true crime, or non-fiction should obtain press credentials
• We think that True Crime podcasters should start networking themselves together for safety and credibility.

Additional Reading:

• Podcasts Could Spark a New Golden Age of Investigative Journalism
• An Australian podcast led to the arrest of man whose wife disappeared 37 years ago
• Audio Reportage
• Ethical Storytelling: Journalism and Media Literacy
• True Crime Podcasts

Trend Forecaster:

• Kyle thinks more True Crime podcasters will form content networks to improve their credibility and audience sizes in 2019.

Quotes:

• "Truth is stranger than fiction. It has to be! Fiction has to be possible and truth doesn’t!" -- Mark Twain
• "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." -- Mark Twain

Reach out to Podwrecked:

• Email us at -- podwrecked AT GMAIL DOT com
• Website: http://podwrecked.com

Podwrecked is a Gagglepod Production. Learn more at gagglepod.com.

Tim and Kyle think it is going to be a good year for podcasting, but it is not there yet and 2019 will set the stage for what will be the year of the podcast.

Episode at a Glance:

• Tim and Kyle go through all their Podcast Industry predictions for 2019 (so far)
• Then we include a bunch more we've been thinking about
• Finally, we do our lightning round of 5 more predictions

What did we learn?

• We think 2019 is going to be a good year for podcasting
• We also think that 2019 is going to be a good year for starting a podcast
• However, 2019 will show that podcasting is not there yet... but getting close!

Trend Forecaster:

• Two new predictions have been added! See all of our Podcast Industry predictions for 2019!

Quotes:

• If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot. – The motto of the Winslow Liferaft Company

Reach out to Podwrecked:

• Email us at -- podwrecked AT GMAIL DOT com
• Website: http://podwrecked.com

Podwrecked is a Gagglepod Production. Learn more at gagglepod.com.

Episode #007

• We talk about what is in store for Podcasting in 2019

• Tim and Kyle go through all their Podcast Industry predictions for 2019 (so far)

• Then we include a bunch more we’ve been thinking about

• Finally, we do our lightning round of 5 more predictions

What did we learn?

• We think 2019 is going to be a good year for podcasting

• We also think that 2019 is going to be a good year for starting a podcast

• We believe that 2019 will show us that podcasting is not there yet… but it is getting close!

Trends

Learn about our latest Podcast Industrial Complex (PIC) Trends and Predictions

Quotes

“If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot.”
– The motto of the Winslow Liferaft Company

Transcripts

• HTML Transcript

• JSON Transcript

• SRT Transcript

Support the Show

Every episode is a work of passion that requires a lot of coffee! We research, read, record, mix, edit, and produce every episode ourselves.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could do two things for us:

1. FEEDBACK: Send us a quick note of encouragement to us. This keeps us going when times get tough!

2. VISIT: If you enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting our website at podwrecked.com!

Thank you for taking the time to listen. You are appreciated!

Start Your Own Podcast

Podwrecked is an Oncetold Production. If you need a partner in telling your podcast story, consider using oncetold.us.

Episode #006

• We talk about how financial and access barriers to educational materials can be reduced by podcasting

What did we learn?

• The number of educational podcasts is growing

• Open Educational Resources (OER) can now add podcasts to their list of textbooks, streaming video, simulations, courseware, and software

• Teachers can benefit their students by making lectures, exercises, and examples freely available

• Teachers can help students learn with content that can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed

• K-12 educational institutions can leverage podcasts for both domestic and international education

• Podcasting lets any educator can become their own content producer today

Additional Reading

• Podcasts in the Classroom

• Project Audio: Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts

• How To Enter The NPR Student Podcast Challenge

• How Podcasts Can Improve Literacy in the Classroom

• TeacherCast Educational Network

• Colonial Williamsburg Past and Present Podcast

• Dan Carlin - Hardcore History Podcast

• Karen Jackson - A Long Look: Slow Art at the National Gallery

Transcripts

• JSON Transcript

• SRT Transcript

Support the Show

Every episode is a work of passion that requires a lot of coffee! We research, read, record, mix, edit, and produce every episode ourselves.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could do two things for us:

1. FEEDBACK: Send us a quick note of encouragement to us. This keeps us going when times get tough!

2. VISIT: If you enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting our website at podwrecked.com!

Thank you for taking the time to listen. You are appreciated!

Start Your Own Podcast

Podwrecked is an Oncetold Production. If you need a partner in telling your podcast story, consider using oncetold.us.

Tim and Kyle talk about the influence that podcasts can and will have on the classroom and why teachers need to embrace educational podcasts.

Episode at a Glance:

• Financial and access barriers to educational materials are being reduced by podcasting

What did we learn?

• Open Educational Resources (OER) can now add podcasts to their list of textbooks, streaming video, simulations, courseware, and software
• OER benefits learning by making lectures, exercises, and examples freely available
• OER be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed by K-12 educational institutions
• Educators can become their own content producers.
• The number of podcasts that are educational is growing.

Additional Reading:

• Podcasts in the Classroom
• Project Audio: Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts
• How To Enter The NPR Student Podcast Challenge
• How Podcasts Can Improve Literacy in the Classroom
• TeacherCast Educational Network
• Colonial Williamsburg Past and Present Podcast
• Dan Carlin - Hardcore History Podcast
• Karen Jackson - A Long Look: Slow Art at the National Gallery

Trend Forecaster:

• Two new predictions have been added! See all of our Podcast Industry predictions at podwrecked.com/trends/!

Quotes:

• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. – John Wooden

Reach out to Podwrecked:

• Email us at -- podwrecked AT GMAIL DOT com
• Website: http://podwrecked.com

Podwrecked is a Gagglepod Production. Learn more at gagglepod.com.

Episode #005

• You have a right to free speech, but you don’t have a right to be heard

• We talk about deplatforming content based on what you find disagreeable who gets to decide what is disagreeable

What did we learn?

• Podcasting is one of the last mediums for truly free speech

• Hate Speech is hard to define

• If you host podcasts you need to be upfront about your Terms of Service.

• To keep it fair, if you start banning content on the so-called “Alt-Right”, then you have to start banning content on the so-called “Alt-Left” too. But who decides? No one knows.

• The solution to hate speech in podcasting is MORE SPEECH, not less

• Nobody is listening to these garbage podcasts anyway, so stop giving them more attention

Additional Reading

• Podcasts help extremists get their message out

• When Digital Platforms Become Censors

• The untenable tension between freedom of speech and freedom of association

Support the Show

Every episode is a work of passion that requires a lot of coffee! We research, read, record, mix, edit, and produce every episode ourselves.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could do two things for us:

1. FEEDBACK: Send us a quick note of encouragement to us. This keeps us going when times get tough!

2. VISIT: If you enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting our website at podwrecked.com!

Thank you for taking the time to listen. You are appreciated!

Start Your Own Podcast

Podwrecked is an Oncetold Production. If you need a partner in telling your podcast story, consider using oncetold.us.