Get specific podcasts
- On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Podcasts .
- Tap Search .
- Enter the podcast's name.
- Tap the podcast. Subscribe.
Literally all you have to do is go to their podcast submission page, fill out the form, and when you finish, the page sends an email to them for manual approval. Within just a few days, you'll get an email telling you that you're listed in their directory.
SoundCloud Basic (the free tier) is great for new podcasters who don't know if they can stick with it. 3 hours of podcasting a month is perfectly adequate for weekly shows that run 30-45 minutes each.
How To Monetize A Podcast Directly
- Ask for donations. The simplest way to monetize a podcast is to ask people for money.
- Create paid membership tiers.
- Sell sponsorships or ads.
- Join an advertising network.
- Sell premium episodes.
- Gate your back catalog.
- Sell repurposed content.
- Syndicate your show to YouTube.
Is Spotify Free for Podcasts? Spotify will include your podcast for free using the above steps. In this way it's similar to other podcasting apps and websites. You'll still need a podcast host, of course, but there are free options for those as well.
Find your next favorite podcast
- Ask Spotify for help. The more podcasts you listen to, the more Spotify will understand what you like.
- Ask Apple Podcasts for advice. Apple now has an app solely dedicated to podcasts.
- Ask your podcast app to choose.
- Ask your friends (or strangers)
- Other discovery options.
Feel free to get out a notebook or a whiteboard so you can start planning your podcast like a pro.
- Choose A Topic.
- Pick A Co-host (optional)
- Choose A Name.
- Show Format.
- Create Cover Art.
- Get A Professional Intro (Optional)
- Choose Intro Music.
- Get A Microphone.
To search podcast transcripts in the Apple Podcasts app, you simply search for the key term in the search bar. Go to the Podcasts app, type your key term into the search bar, and search! You won't see the transcript itself (a snippet, at best) unless you copy and pasted a transcript into the show notes.
How to maximize your podcast show notes in 5 easy steps
- Step 1: Write a loose content outline before recording.
- Step 2: Have your guests help you with the work.
- Step 3: Translate main ideas > transcribing.
- Step 4: Share the podcast show notes on social media.
- Step 5: Offer bonus content in your podcast show notes.
Summary: Podcast StatisticsThere are currently over two million podcasts and more than 48 million podcast episodes. Nearly six in ten US consumers above the age of 12 have listened to a podcast.
Best podcasts to listen to in 2021
- Start with This. You know a podcast is making you cleverer when it involves homework.
- Philosophy Bites.
- Serial.
- Decoder Ring.
- 1619.
- Why Won't You Date Me?
- This American Life.
- The New Yorker Fiction Podcast.
What Is A Podcast Transcript? A podcast transcript is a word-for-word account of your episodes. You or an automated software simply listen to your episode and write down every word spoken by you or your guests. It's best to include a transcription for each episode on the same page as your audio player and show notes.
Download numbers are one of the most obvious metrics for measuring the success of your podcast. Download stats are immediately accessible to you, from the minute you launch your first episode. Watching the numbers climb can be rewarding. Some might even say addictive.
It can be weekly, but it can also be once every two weeks, or even once a month! What is important is that you stick to your schedule! If your audience knows that you publish your episodes consistently according to a schedule, they will show up every time you drop a new episode.
Popular options include Spotify, SoundCloud, Pocket Casts, and Stitcher. Many of these apps work on both Apple and Android devices, and most of them are free. (Some offer different tiers of service with the most basic one being free.) There are also podcast platforms devoted to particular genres.
Download Podcasts
- On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Podcasts .
- At the bottom, tap Home .
- At the top right, tap your Profile picture or initial. Podcast settings.
- Under “Downloads,†tap Auto downloading.
- Turn on Auto download new episodes.
- Under “Your subscriptions,†turn on podcasts you want to auto download.
Android users, you've also got a free built-in podcast app. It does everything that Apple Podcasts does, so you can start listening in seconds and subscribe to keep it up.
Let's get started.
- Blubrry. Blubrry provides you with advanced podcast media statistics that can help you understand your audience better.
- Transistor. Transistor offers advanced podcast analytics to help you track and monitor your progress.
- Castos.
- Podbean.
- Podtrac.
- Anchor.
- Chartable.
- Backtracks.
Spotify for Podcasters, a discovery and analytics dashboard, has come out of beta, the music streaming service announced Tuesday. The platform allows podcast creators to submit their shows and view listener demographic and engagement data, such as where people start and stop playback as well as average listening time.
