The Podcast News

It’s Sunday, April 19th. Here’s your podcast news and helpful tutorials for the third week of April, 2020.

This week in podcast news and tutorials: We have an article with a detailed look at the changes in podcast listening behavior, helpful resources for folks who’ve jobs have been disrupted by the Coronavirus, a couple articles with tips for improving your podcast content, and then a couple about improving your podcasts’s audio quality.

It’s Sunday, April 12th, 2020.

Here’s some of the best podcast news for the first week of April, 2020. And don’t worry, it’s not all Coronavirus.

1. Text or call a friend

2. Stronger connections and file sharing

3. Daily planning, disruption, and how we handle it

4. How to get great-sounding audio from your podcast guests… from a distance

5. Podcasting for remote teams: using audio to connect, engage & inform

6. How to turn your podcast hobby into a business

7. New York Times acquires Audm, whose narrators turn long-form journalism into audio

8. How the coronavirus is affecting podcast downloads

Hey friends, just wanted to say hi real quick and get a short message out to you. I just arrived in Los Angeles this past Sunday night, right in time for the Governor's stay at home order. I've got a couple new roommates here, we’re staying inside except to get groceries but everything is fine overall. I’ve got plenty of work to do, so I’m doing my best to keep my normal routine and work making this podcast back into my schedule. Take care of each other, ask for help if you need it, offer to help if you have the resources. I'll talk to you next week.

The New York Times in talks to potentially buy Serial Productions (makers of Serial), Simplecast launches MAE (Movable Audio Engine), their new dynamic audio insertion tool-set, podcasts as a way to provide training to employees and increase employee retention and happiness, lessons learned from the Substack writers gathering, guides to podcast editing and audio software, how Twitter uses a podcast to attract advertisers, and more.

This week: It's not too late to start that podcast, how a creative brief can help you get great show artwork from your designer, tips on podcasting with a co-host, and 8 things you should know about putting a podcast on YouTube.

The discussion about Spotify continues, “the Oscars for podcasting” are coming, how to measure and use podcast analytics to make your show successful, which metrics you should be focusing on, tips for how to find sponsors for your show, and more.

Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? Advertising A Podcast (Part 2), Why the Podcast Gold Rush is Slowing Down for Some Publishers, and more.

Advertising a podcast, podcast ads, audience growth, SEO tips, Voice Boost 2 for Overcast, the recipe for earning $1000 per fan, and more.