YouTube share tips for posting podcasts

• Erica, a Strategic Partner Manager from YouTube, has published a video with tips about posting podcasts on the platform. She talks about how to upload audio-only shows, monetisation, and suggests that you make a playlist for your podcast episodes. She ends “We’ll keep you posted as we develop more tools for podcasters on YouTube”.

  • In March, Podnews posted leaked plans from YouTube’s presentation to some podcast partners. We’re expecting more news sometime over the next two months: YouTube was very visible at the recent Podcast Show in London.
  • Thanks to the Great British YouTubers Podcast for the tip.

• Podcasts with guests get more listeners, according to new data from Rephonic. They’re also, as you might guess, longer.

• German podcast website podcast.de posted results of a survey. Unusually, nobody in this research claims to listen to podcasts on YouTube. Knowledge and Education is the genre that does best; and most people listen while driving.

• UK podcast production company Message Heard has signed with CAA.

• The London Podcast Studios in Holborn have shown off their new look. They took the opportunity during the pandemic to invest in their studio setup, including videography and LED display screens.

• The Tribeca Festival is to launch its own podcast network, called Tribeca Audio.

• The GoodPods app now has a comments feature.

• ROCKNPOD, planned for next month in Nashville TN, USA, has been moved to April 2023, “due to a spike in COVID cases here as well as record-level heat”.

• Podcasts have inspired many of this year’s highest-profile TV dramas, says Screen International. The long-form article looks at TV producers and their attitude to podcasts.

• Nominees for the British Podcast Awards will be announced tonight. For the first time, there will be ten nominations per category.

• Ian Coss, Producer and Sound Designer at PRX, is the curator this week for the EarBuds Podcast Collective - posting five episodes from podcast musicals.

Tips and tricks - with RedCircle

• Marketing your podcast isn’t a “once and done” thing - Lauren Passell posts three things that busy podcasters can do every week.

• Brittany Duggan from Pacific Content has posted a number of lessons from one of their podcasts, Red Hat’s Command Line Heroes. Among the ideas: listen to your audience, and try paid promotion on other, similar podcasts.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• Audiobookshelf is an open-source self-hosted audiobook and podcast server, with features like Chromecast support and apps for Android and iOS.

• Will Hagle posts How Uploading an Album as a Podcast Could Take Back Control From Big Streaming, highlighting Black Star’s release of a new album on Luminary.

• Music Casting is a new website to help musicians to use Value4Value and new podcast apps to release their music for all.

• RSS Feed Best Practices isn’t written with podcasting in mind, but does include a lot of useful information if you’re coding your own.

• The Mere Mortals podcast supporters page shows all their supporters to the Mere Mortals podcast. Currently produced manually from an Excel sheet produced by Satoshis Stream, it’s a really nice idea.

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