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Nudging For Podcast Feedback

(Yes. Elsie’s audio is sucky — we know — 😢) Ya’ll, where are the podcast promos? Why Elsie thinks podcast audience feedback is down, Libsyn

January 24, 2023

Elsie Looking condident nex to the title "Plan for the New Year: Phase 2"

Podcast Planning 2023 — Phase 1, What If …

In my next three blogs, I will be looking at podcast planning for 2023. By separating the plan into three distinct phases, I’ll give you a roadmap to follow and get yourself primed for a New Year of podcasting success — even better than this year! In each phase, adjust

November 16, 2022

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Top 5 Tips for Creating Podcast Advertising in 2023

When you are creating podcast advertising it is foremost, an opportunity to present loyal listeners with a call to action that facilitates desired behaviors and/or sales. To that end, we bring you five tips to help keep you focused on creating podcast advertising that really works. 1. Make your message

November 15, 2022

231 Studio, Connect and The Great Twitter Migration

Libsyn Studio update, a special live recording of The Feed, Libsyn 5 refresh is live plus feedback on Libsyn Connect, the great Twitter migration, clarifying platform TOSs, the impact of being everywhere, tools for podcast planning in 2023, getting fired because of your podcast, the indypod census and as always

November 15, 2022

Podcast Planning — What’s left to do in 2022?

Podcast planning is one of the best strategies you can utilize on a regular basis. Most folks get to planning at the end of the year or the beginning of the year, but you can “plan” at any time. With a plan in place, you don’t need to be reactionary

November 9, 2022

October 2022 Podcast Advertising Rates

If you are looking into advertising on podcasts, podcast advertising rates (or CPM — Cost Per Thousand) are probably top of mind. Each month, Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast Marketplace publishes the prior month’s podcast advertising rates. This allows advertisers and podcasters to monitor market pricing, fostering insight into podcasting advertising as a

November 7, 2022

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Podcast Plan — Look Back to Move Forward in 2023

It’s the end of the year and maybe you’re feeling like your podcast plan has all gone to crap, like you haven’t even come close to achieving all your podcast plan goals. Like, “where the heck did all my time and energy go, and what do I have to show

November 2, 2022

230 18 Years of Libsyn, Apple Podcasts & Relaunching Tips

Happy 18th birthday Libsyn, Apple Podcasts holiday hours and the Libsyn holiday hours, iPadOS 16.1 and the new Apple Podcasts redesign! The new Apple Podcasts virtual workshops, Libsyn updated main navigation, all sorts of Twitter Spaces follow up, YouTube handles! Tips for “relaunching” your podcast, The new Rode x sub-brand

November 1, 2022

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Podcast Conferences, 2023 — Top 10 Travel Tips!

Podcasters! Who is ready for ALL of the peopleing? Going outside? Talking to other folks in real life – face to face? And attending your very first podcast conference! Why attend a podcast conference? Conferences are where we get together as a community to learn, share, network, grow and simply

October 26, 2022

Tiffany Grant smiling with her "Money Talk with Tiff" seatshirt on standing beside title that reads "Podcasting Makes Good Business Sense."

Make Podcasting Part of Your 2023 Business Growth Strategy

[Updated] When it comes to making money and discussing developing a business growth strategy, I went to Libsyn podcaster Tiffany Grant, host of Money Talk with Tiffany. In her podcast, she offers straight talk on all things money. Her guests offer insight into the best ways to spend, save, invest,

October 19, 2022

229 Podcaster Twitter Spaces & Worst Podcasting Tips

Get ready for all kinds of Libsyn Connect follow up, experiences from a podcaster as a Twitter Spaces newbie, a too good to be true service, making a podcasting intro and outro interesting, how to keep podcasting through the end of the year, who is a winner of the podcast

October 18, 2022

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Keeping Listeners Turned on While Taking Time Off

Certain seasons during the year the world takes time off. For example, as we head toward the end of the year, it’s holiday time! Many people take time off the last two weeks of the calendar year to be with family and friends. In many parts of the world, one

October 12, 2022

Graphic reading "Scary Good Podcaster" with picture of Jim Harold and an eerie night sky over ragged Libsyn turquoise.

How to Create a Podcast that’s Scary Good

Creating a podcast is, for some, the dream of making a living doing something you love. It can feel so lofty and elusive … it’s scary. For Jim Harold, it is a reality that changed his life. His desire to create a podcast started with a sneaking suspicion that he

October 11, 2022

NAVIGATING THE WORLD WITH YOUR AGING LOVED ONE

Nicole Will | Navigating the World w/ Your Aging Loved One

“Our hope is to create a sense of community for those caring for the aging, inspiring a vision of life-long learning and engagement.” This series is all about Libsyn podcasters. Its sole purpose is to introduce these awesome podcasts to the world as well as share their podcasting insight to

October 10, 2022

Elsie with a BIG smile looking extremely excited next to title reading "Podcast Education Resources"

Podcasting Education — Experience is the Best Teacher

A podcasting education is integral to podcasting. I’ve been teaching podcasting for more than a decade. In fact, back when I started, I was asked to do a “How To Podcast Workshop” a year after I had started my podcast! Here are my receipts circa July 2007! Many things have

October 5, 2022

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Create a Podcast in 2023 — Just Start!

[Updated] Should you create a podcast? Can you create a podcast? Yes, the answer is YES, just start. We interviewed 500 podcasters in our Rockin Libsyn Podcast series at all stages of podcasting and asked them: “What do you wish you knew before you started podcasting?” We found there are

October 4, 2022