Growing Your Podcast Audience: Time, Tools, and Techniques
Send us feedback/questions via Text This show is brought to you by the School of Podcasting Today we talk about realistic growth of a podcast audience. I've always said the formula is Value in Episode X Smart Promotion = Downloads A recent episode of the Grow Your Show podcast mentioned we might want to mention audience size (social, email list, etc). Spending money on ads is a strategy, but it relies on many different aspects to have success so you may not strike gold on your...
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Today we talk about realistic growth of a podcast audience. I've always said the formula is
Value in Episode X Smart Promotion = Downloads
A recent episode of the Grow Your Show podcast mentioned we might want to mention audience size (social, email list, etc).
Spending money on ads is a strategy, but it relies on many different aspects to have success so you may not strike gold on your first try
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00:14 - Opening
00:51 - Star Wars Day
01:10 - 4 Dead In Ohio Day
01:39 - I'm With You - I Think
02:12 - Sponsor: PodcastBranding.co
03:36 - Mugshot: BasedOnaTrueStoryPodcast.com
04:06 - Protest Gear
04:45 - Remo on App Sumo
06:17 - Return of Podcasting in Six Weeks?
10:16 - Separate Page For My Podcast?
12:31 - Sub-Domains
15:42 - Too Many Streams?
18:06 - How Long to See Audience Growth
18:06 - New Chapter
22:58 - Case Study of Ads
25:55 - Slower but Deeper Growth
26:32 - Studying Mr. Beast
28:51 - Titles That Lie
30:04 - Measure Your Audience
38:14 - Buzzsprout Ads Update
39:13 - The Pieces of an Ad Campaign
41:56 - Testing Your Ads
41:56 - [Ad] Audience Connection
42:45 - (Cont.) The Pieces of an Ad Campaign
46:32 - Ad Infinitum Rant
48:49 - Mouse Flow
49:11 - Switchy Link Tracker
50:36 - Swapping Promos
51:59 - Sometimes it Doesn't Work
52:34 - Podcasting Is Hard
54:18 - Practice, Practice, Practice
57:13 - Mr. Beast Is Giving Back
58:21 - Where Do I NEED to go First
01:01:08 - It's Not Just ONE Thing
01:03:03 - Awesome Supporters
01:05:26 - Supporter of the Week
01:07:14 - Free Built in Websites
01:12:02 - Master Your Craft
01:14:18 - Lean Into Being Human
01:18:52 - Op3 Stats
01:20:32 - Saturday Morning Wrestling
01:21:14 - Is Podcasting 2.0 Hype?
01:24:54 - Value For Value Stats
01:26:46 - PodPing
01:28:49 - Wrap It up