Jim is out on assignment and Dave turns to the chat room to be the co-host. A follow up on last week, Dave ended up blowing up his modem last week.
Spreakr Unique Feature: PreRoll
4:00 Spreaker allows you to upload a file to their system and it will be play when you use the spreaker player. You use this this to tell people to subscribe as the only people who would hear this are on your website.
Podcast iTunes Popularity
6:30 The download bar in iTunes is based on downloads. Does the popularity ranking even matter? Dave gets our first F*ck you! person on Blab.im
Dave was once hung up on by Howard Stern for not getting to the point
Launching Your Podcast on A Certain Date
12;43 you have no control over how long it takes your podcast to show up in iTunes. Typically its around 2-3 days, but if they are busy it make take more. It's best to submit your podcast and then launch when the show is in iTunes
Basically being on the front page of New and Noteworthy gets you about 200 downloads per day. According to the New Media Show there are over 1000 podcasts coming into iTunes per week. new and Noteworthy doesn't seem to pack the punch it use to.
Where Do People Find Podcasts?
According to 100 people that Dave asked:
Word of mouth
They search whatever app they are using
Google Search
So Google search was the last tool used.
17:44 Rankings is it better to Rank in iTunes or Google?
iTune Rankings With Daniel J Lewis
20:50 Daniel J Lewis from the Audacity to podcast joins us. Daniel has a course on configuring your listing in iTunes for maximum exposure.
Loop Back Questions
Loopback is a software based mixer for the Mac. Their website is https://www.rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
its more user friendly than soundflower, but not as easy as Audio Hijack pro but it is a different type of software.
Two Ideas: Should They Be Separate Podcasts?
35:27 I have two ideas that are similar should they be in the same podcast or should I make two.
Find your target audience and see what they think? When you publish more frequently you might get more Google juice.
Make a mock episode and let your target audience and get their feedback.
Can I promote My Own Business in My Podcast?
39:15 It's your show, you can talk about whatever you want to. Ask you audience
40:48 iTunes Explicit Settings. If you've cleaned it up, it should be clip. This is on the show. There is on more setting on a per episode basis. You have to choose one or the other.
43:10 Cursing in your podcast may cost your sponsors
Auphonic.com is a great tool for cleaning up your files.
50:10 George Hates Blab Part 1
51:25 How many downloads from New and Noteworthy from shepodcasts.com
52:15 George Hates Blab Part 2
55:35 Are transcriptions a good idea?
Thanks to Daniel J Lewis from the Audacity to Podcast and Mike Dell from Podcast Help Desk
