A weekly roundup of podcast industry news and updates from the Buzzsprout team! Each episode aims at making podcasters successful with tips, tech reviews, upcoming events, and links to content aimed at making new and seasoned podcasters successful.
Latest episodes
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How to Read Your Stats
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'You check your podcast stats and notice one platform has a much bigger number than the others.It’s tempting to think that’s where you should put more…
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Preview Your Podcast Details
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Your podcast has probably evolved since you launched it. But when you’re busy making episodes, it’s easy to leave the title, description, and artwork…
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A Faster Way To Edit Transcripts
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! If you’ve edited a few podcast transcripts, you probably know which words you’ll need to fix before you even open the next one.For B…
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Your Player In Your Style
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! Your personal website gives people another way to discover your podcast!And when they do, you want them to be able to start listenin…
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Keep The Indie Spirit Of Podcasting
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! Alban and Jordan are back from Podcast Movement in New York, and they came home with a lot to talk about.Podcasting has changed dram…
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Who Should Hear Your Podcast?
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! Most of the time, we’re trying to get our podcast in front of as many people as possible.But there are times when reaching a smaller…
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From Podcast to Stage
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! A few months ago, Jordan needed to pitch a talk for Podcast Movement.There was just one problem: the deadline was coming up fast, an…
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How Podcasting Changes You
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! We spend a lot of time thinking about how to grow our podcasts.But after a year of hosting Podcasting Q&A, Cara realized her podcast…
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Buzzsprout Creator Spotlight: Yasha
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! Jeremy Gendelman had the recordings for Yasha sitting in a drawer for almost ten years.He'd recorded his grandfather telling the s…
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Keep Podcasting Weird
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! Lately, I’ve noticed how much content is starting to sound the same.It's technically good, but so much of what we consume is optimiz…
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Buzzsprout Creator Spotlight: Tiger Talk
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey Podcasters!Most podcasts have a host, producer, researcher, writer, and editor.On Tiger Talk, those jobs belong to fourth and fifth graders!The…
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What’s New for WordPress
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey Podcasters!If you’ve ever tried embedding an episode in WordPress, you know it can take more clicks than it should.A small update to your site ca…
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Publish Video to Spotify and YouTube
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters!If you're already recording video, you know the work doesn't end when the recording does. Next comes uploading the same episode file…
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Better Podcast Gear
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters!Podcast equipment has gotten a lot better over the last few years.Unfortunately, it's also gotten a lot more confusing.There are hund…
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Are You Losing Listeners?
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters!It's easy to assume your podcast grows because you publish consistently, improve your audio, or spend more time promoting each episod…
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Is Video Podcasting Hard
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters! About a month ago, the Buzzcast team turned the show into a video podcast.Rather than speculate about whether video is worth it, the…
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Buzzsprout Creator Spotlight: Cycling Together with Kristin & Steve
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey Podcasters!One of my favorite things about podcasting is that your show almost never grows the way you expect it to!Kristin and Steve started the…
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Buzzsprout Creator Spotlight: Two Guys on a Plane
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey Podcasters!For years, Rich and Andrew kept hearing the same thing from their social media followers:"You should start a podcast."As flight attend…
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Buzzsprout Creator Spotlight: Got Any Cows?
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey Podcasters!One of the reasons I love highlighting Buzzsprout creators is that they often find uses for podcasting that most of us would never thi…
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Apple Podcasts or Youtube?
Send a question for 'Ask Megan'Hey, Podcasters!One of the questions we've been hearing a lot lately is:"If I'm making video for my podcast, should I put it on Apple Podcasts or You…