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The Podcast Pointers: Create your Dream Show

Colin Gray

Launch, growth and success tips for Podcasters and wider content creators. Read a set of quick points, from tool reviews to growth tactics, and much more, all aimed at helping you create the show of your dreams. If you're building a personal or a content brand, then get started with us!

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Fiction Podcast Weekly 252: History drama, New Writing North Sounds Good, Camlann BTS, A2Z, and more

Issue #252 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by Leah's Gals. Greed, lust, drugs, and Capodimonte combust in this low-rent, Southern-fried twist on a literary classic. Leah’s Gals, loosely based on Shakespeare’s epic tragedy King Lear, takes place in the present-day American South, where a family’s long-held grievances and newfound wealth lead to familial treachery, violence, and death. News, Roundups, and Announcements Rates rises for ITV and BBC audio drama writers, from the...

6 days ago • 4 min read

Issue #251 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Podcast Host's Only 8% of Indies Enter Podcast Awards – Here’s Why We surveyed 1,005 independent podcasters to find out how engaged they are with the awards world, and how they think the programs could be improved. Only 8% of Indies Enter Podcast Awards – Here’s Why by Katie Paterson News, Roundups, and Announcements Realm Selects Flightpath as Revenue Optimization Partner. Can global domination of the fiction podcast zeitgeist...

13 days ago • 3 min read

Issue #250 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Podcast Host's Guide to Discord for Podcasters. Discord is unique among social media platforms for its security, range of features, and absence of algorithms. How can podcasters get the most out of it? Check out Discord for Podcasters: Engagement Without Exasperation to find out. News, Roundups, and Announcements Sean Howard gave an interview to Podcast Business Journal, about Flightpath. Ariel Shapiro posted her final article...

20 days ago • 3 min read

Issue #249 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Podcast Host's How Listeners Want to Engage With Your Podcast. We surveyed podcast listeners to learn what would make them engage more with shows. Check out the results of the podcast listener survey here: Survey Reveals How Listeners Want to Engage With Your Podcast, by Katie Paterson News, Roundups, and Announcements The Cambridge Geek has compiled and shared the Top Audio Fiction Poll: Results! 2024 on Reddit. reVolver...

27 days ago • 3 min read

Issue #248 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Podcast Host's Guide to How to Grow Your Podcast Without Social Media: The RACE Method. Over half of podcast listeners find new shows without social media, so why should you worry about using it? Can You Grow a Podcast Without Social Media? It’s a RACE shows you how to re-frame your podcast promotion strategy. News, Roundups, and Announcements Happy Autism Acceptance Month! Girl Tales and Dorktales Storytime Podcasts Create...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Tools & Offers NEW IN ALITU Introducing 3 big updates that'll cut your editing time in half, or more. This is our biggest-ever update to editing in Alitu, and it'll save you hours upon hours of tedious time-consuming work. 🪄 1. Magic Filters: Remove ums, ahs and dead air automatically How long do you spend scrubbing waveforms for every last uhm, ah, and awkward silence? If you're anything like me, it is way (way) too long. Now, Alitu will find and edit out filler words and silences with the...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Issue #247 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Podcast Host's Guide to How to Use Creative Commons Images For Your Podcast. Images help grow your podcast and clarify your topic, but they can be costly. Here's How to Use Creative Commons Images for Your Podcast along with some excellent places to find them. News, Roundups, and Announcements Edison Research's Infinite Dial study for 2024 (PDF) says that"just under 100 million Americans age 12 and older now listen to podcasts...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

Tools & Offers The world's most user friendly podcasting platform now has video. Plus, find out: Why did we make an app in the first place? 👋 Enable 'images loading' to see the updates in action! 🏞👈 Around 3,000 people already use Alitu to create their podcast, and their voice is unanimous: WE WANT VIDEO. Our team has done a lot over the past five years to make the easiest, fastest, most empowering app we could. All for podcasters who want to move faster and focus on creating. We've shipped...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

Hullo there... My latest review focuses on taking a couple of swings at UPS. Oh, and I also mention the Rode NT1 5th Gen. In all seriousness, a very good mic. It has "unclippable" 32-bit float technology, so if you've built a time machine and plan to record your next episode on August 26th 1883, near Krakatoa, then this is an excellent choice. More new content down below, too! Cheers,Matthew From Doubt to Determination: Pushing Through the Podcasting Dip Published on March 25, 2024 What keeps...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Issue #246 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Podcast Host's Gear Survey 2024. We’d love to learn more about how you record your podcast. And if you tell us, you’ll have the opportunity to win a $200 Amazon voucher* in our prize drawing! The Podcaster Gear Survey should only take a few minutes. We’ll publish the results in full this Spring, so be sure to have your say! News, Roundups, and Announcements Radiodays Europe 2024 has a pragmatic and positive outlook for...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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