Issue 275 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Greatest Matter: A Victorian Gothic Crime Tale. A man is gruesomely murdered in Victorian Dublin, and a renowned criminologist is drawn into the case. The murder has disturbing connections to the occult, but two writers are intent on finding answers, no matter the cost. The murderer may still be out there, and their identity may have profound implications for the very nature of life and death. Listen to the Greatest Matter...
4 days ago • 4 min read
Issue 274 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by How Do Listeners Discover Podcasts in 2024? Do you love listening to podcasts? How do you find new shows? Take the survey to win a $200 Amazon voucher. Are you a podcaster? You can also win prizes by helping us get the survey in front of more podcast audiences. Details at our 2024 Podcast Discovery Survey. News, Roundups, and Announcements How do you launch a new audio drama podcast? Podrama Cast Network hosted the first-ever audio...
11 days ago • 4 min read
Issue #273 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by Back Fires. In 1946, a crew of California convicts fights wildfires in exchange for their freedom. Thirty years later, while researching the history of American prison labor, a British journalist uncovers evidence suggesting a wide-ranging cover-up of inmate deaths. Listen to Back Fires - a new full-cast historical fiction podcast. News, Roundups, and Announcements Audio Drama Hub Podfest 2024, 2 November. In-person tickets are now...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Issue #272 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by Back Fires. In 1946, a crew of California convicts fights wildfires in exchange for their freedom. Thirty years later, while researching the history of American prison labor, a British journalist uncovers evidence suggesting a wide-ranging cover-up of inmate deaths. Listen to Back Fires - a new full-cast historical fiction podcast. News, Roundups, and Announcements Indies Want Podcast Measurement Standardisation, Survey Suggests,...
25 days ago • 4 min read
Issue #271 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by Back Fires. In 1946, a crew of California convicts fights wildfires in exchange for their freedom. Thirty years later, while researching the history of American prison labor, a British journalist uncovers evidence suggesting a wide-ranging cover-up of inmate deaths. Listen to Back Fires - a new full-cast historical fiction podcast. News, Roundups, and Announcements It's Friday the 13th: hug a black cat today! Podnews reports that...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hullo there! Unless you're an eccentric millionaire (I wonder how many weeks running I can open with this line. Let's see...) you're probably receptive to earning a penny or two from your podcast. In the latest episode of Podcraft, we got ten brilliant Indie Podcasters together and asked them "Do you monetize your show, and if so, how?". I'd like to think the question itself was a little more eloquent than that, but the answers were great. Here they are! And, as ever, there's more fresh...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hullo there! Unless you're an eccentric millionaire (I find myself typing out that caveat a lot these days, and, to date, nobody has ever disagreed), you probably approach buying anything with the ethos of "What's the best quality I can get for the lowest cost?" But if you're not careful, you can easily spend a fortune on podcast equipment. Even mics alone can run into the several hundreds. Well, I'm here to tell you to put that credit card away. You can pick up a superb podcasting mic for...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Hullo there! Modern podcast software can fix reverb, background noise, and poor mic technique to a frighteningly good standard. So, does that mean we can stop caring about these things when we're recording? We answer this question in the latest episode of Podcraft, which was recorded in a cave on a single Blue Snowball, set half a mile away from us, whilst the 'Vivuzela Hits 2010' album played in the background. Of course, none of this is actually true, but it would've made for a pretty...
2 months ago • 1 min read
View this email in a browser Hi Reader, A lot of the big social media trends haven't translated to podcasting over the years (anyone remember Snapchat?!). And naturally, this makes a lot of creators sceptical: Is social media just a waste of our time? Rather than bore you with info about the latest social media fad, we figured it's much more helpful to share real stories from creators about where and how they're finding success with their social media strategies in practice. So, we surveyed...
3 months ago • 1 min read