Pod Chat

Remember Winamp skins? Burned CDs? AIM away messages? The Dreamcast? Those weird little corners of the internet that somehow felt more human than everything online today? Maybe we don’t actually miss the technology. Maybe we miss how it made us feel. Artifacts is a podcast about forgotten platforms, dead gadgets, old internet culture, creative communities, and the strange emotional connection we s...

After nearly three years of quick-hit podcasting tips in under 60 seconds, One Minute Podcast Tips is evolving. In the next few weeks, I’ll be shifting from this micro format to a bi-weekly livestream on YouTube, where you can join me live for deeper conversations, community Q&As, and real-time podcasting advice. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for the live streams: Danny's YouTube channel Pro...

If you're not using Reddit as a podcaster, you're missing out on some great opportunities. Here's why. Additional reading and listening: What podcasts are much better at the beginning, but have let you down after awhile (& why?) Products I Use for One Minute Podcast Tips Note: these may contain affiliate links, so I get&nbs...

Hi everyone! In this inaugural episode, we explore the critical role of audio quality in podcast engagement and listener satisfaction. We examine a recent Twitter poll which revealed that over half of the 305 respondents consider poor audio quality the primary reason for abandoning a podcast. Listener grievances include subpar audio, the perception of amateurism, the annoyance of excessive sound e...

Pod Chat is closing, as I continue more in my latest podcast. Here are the full details, as well as some shows you might want to follow to keep up with the podcast industry. Check out One Minute Podcast Tips and be a better podcaster in just a minute a week. Mentioned in this episode: The best podcasts for the very best tips to be a better podcaster. Pod the North | Kattie Laur | Substack The Podc...

Support the show: Become a Premium Member for ad-free early access, exclusive live streams, and more. Contact me:  danny@dannybrown.me Products I use for Pod Chat Note: these contain affiliate links, so I may get a small percentage of any product you buy/use when using my link. My equipment: Shure SM7B dynamic mic Rodecaster Pro II production studio Sony MDR-7506 Studio Monitor Headphones Elg...

After a slight hiatus over the spring, Pod Chat will return in June. Also, news of a cool way to support Pod Chat from one-off tips to full community membership. Support the show: Become a Premium Member for early access, exclusive content, stickers and more. Contact me:  danny@dannybrown.me Products I use for Pod Chat Note: these contain affiliate links, so I may get a small percentage of an...

For the last 14 years, I’ve been involved in podcasting. Okay, that’s not quite correct - I published my first podcast episode back in 2009 on BlogTalkRadio, but then didn’t record anything else until 2016. So, technically, I’ve been in the space for the last 7 years - my bad! Over that time, as podcasting has grown in popularity both for podcasters and listeners, it’s safe to say that growth has...

There are a lot of studies on how podcasting can benefit listeners when it comes to their mental health, but this isn’t the case when it comes to the creators behind the podcasts. And that’s more than a little disconcerting. Because podcasting can be such a lonely endeavour, this only exacerbates the issues someone might be going through that are multiplied when their anxieties about their podcast...

Today it's my pleasure to welcome Alexandra Cohl to the show. Alexandra is the founder and owner of POD.DRALAND, providing PR and marketing services for podcasters, as well as a place centred on amplifying women's voices in podcasting. She's also the host of The Pod Broads, where she interviews women in the podcasting industry about their lives and their work, and curator/editor of Podcasting By t...

An area I don’t think gets a lot of love in the podcast space is the podcast trailer. According to industry publication Podnews,  only 14% of the podcasts they looked at had trailers marked in their feed . And that’s a huge missed opportunity for podcasters - because trailers are perfect for a multitude of reasons: they can be used as a great introduction to your show they can be highlighted...

Today it’s my pleasure to welcome Sam Sethi to the show. Sam is the CEO of Podfans, a soon-to-be-released marketplace where listeners can both discover and support the shows they love. He is also the owner and managing director of River Radio, a podcast-first 24/7 digital radio platform based in the UK, and the host of Sam Talks Tech podcast, as well as the co-host and editor of Podnews Weekly. In...

A quick holiday message from Danny to all the Pod Chat listeners and followers. Support the show: Become a Premium Member for ad-free early access, exclusive live streams, and more. Contact me:  danny@dannybrown.me Products I use for Pod Chat Note: these contain affiliate links, so I may get a small percentage of any product you buy/use when using my link. My equipment: Shure SM7B dynamic mic...

If you're looking to be a better podcaster, but you don't have time to listen to hours and hours of advice, One Minute Podcast Tips is the show for you. I’m Danny Brown, host of multiple podcasts, and I’ve been in the podcasting space for over 10 years. Every Friday, One Minute Podcast Tips will bring you a short tip you can use on your podcast, with advice on improving your recording, editing, pu...

Today, it's my pleasure to welcome Jeff Umbro to the show. Jeff is the CEO of The Podglomerate, and helps brands and independent podcasters foster their ideas through conception, development, production, and distribution. This includes monetization through ad sales, premium content, and live events.  Jeff's most recent project saw him as the Executive Producer of Missing Pages ,&nbs...

In May 2020, Spotify shook the podcasting world when it announced it had signed the hugely popular YouTube show, The Joe Rogan Experience, to an exclusive deal on Spotify. The deal meant Rogan’s show would only be available on Spotify, and his back catalogue of videos on YouTube would be removed. It was part of a huge acquisition journey by Spotify, in their goal to be the number one audio-on-dema...

Tom Webster, partner at Sounds Profitable, and Danny discuss the latest findings from Sounds Profitable's studies on podcast advertising. They also talk about the growth of the podcasting industry and how podcast ads can be more effective. Tom and Danny discuss the recent Podcast Movement conference and the After These Messages report. Tom shares that the report is one of the strongest studies he'...

After an extended summer break (sorry, it was only meant to be a month but life got in the way!), Pod Chat returns next week, on Friday September 9 - woot woot! My first guest is Tom Webster of Sounds Profitable , and former SVP at Edison Research. We spoke about data in podcasting, the recent After These Messages report that premiered at Podcast Movement, the opportunity for podcasters and advert...

Pod Chat is taking a short summer break, but will be back in August. So I thought this would be the perfect time to take a look back at the first 8 episodes of the show. There have been some amazing guests so far, all sharing super insightful takes on the podcast industry. Here are some of the soundbites from these episodes. Contact me:   danny@dannybrown.me Products I use for Pod Chat N...

Mark Asquith has been involved in podcasting since 2013, and has focused on helping podcasters grow their businesses. In 2019, he co-founded Captivate, a podcast hosting platform that helps serious indie podcasters grow their businesses. In this conversation, he discusses his goals for the platform, and how it helps podcasters grow their businesses. Mark talks about the company's journey from Podc...

Hari Gopalakrishna is the founder of Boomcaster, a remote recording platform designed to help podcasters produce great audio and video. He discusses the genesis of the platform and how it helps podcasters overcome the challenges of recording quality audio in a remote setting. Danny and Hari discuss the challenges of remote recording and streaming, and how Boomcaster aims to make podcasting accessi...

Elsie Escobar is a highly respected member of the podcasting industry who has been podcasting since 2006. She is the co-host and co-partner of She Podcasts, a podcasting movement whose mission is to empower women to continue to share their voices while creating a safe community of podcasting education and support. She is also the community manager for podcast hosting company Libsyn, where she has...

It's my pleasure to welcome Bryan Barletta to the show, a name that will be instantly recognizable to anyone in the podcasting and AdTech space. Bryan is the founder of Sounds Profitable, a collection of media properties that covers the changing face of AdTech and the business of podcasting. Bryan's goal with Sounds Profitable is to make the AdTech space less daunting for podcasters and brands ali...

In this week's Pod Chat, I chat with AJ Churchill, co-founder of Lunar.fm, the company behind the Apollo podcast app and the audio fiction sci-fi drama, Earth Eclipsed. We talk about how audio production quality is changing with new technologies, as well as the innovations behind the Apollo app that are helping audio fiction podcasts be found, and how that can help other podcast app developers imp...

This week, I chat with Arielle Nissenblatt, founder of the Earbuds Podcast Collective newsletter, Community Manager at SquadCast, and whole lot more. On Why Quality Control is Important Arielle's newsletter, Earbuds Podcast Collective, celebrated its five year anniversary this year. The newsletter sees a subscriber/podcaster curate five different podcasts around a specific topic, and has brought m...