How to Start a Podcast (A Step-by-Step Guide)
This informative and very actionable step-by-step guide was published on the well-known niche website for podcasting called buzzsprout.com. It states that there never has been a better time to make a podcast: podcasts are soaring in popularity, the tech is easier than ever, and there’s still a lot of opportunity for new podcasters.
In continuation one reads that more people are listening to podcasts than ever before.
According to Edison Research, the number of Americans listening to a podcast each week has grown 120% over the past four years, and 90 million Americans listen to a podcast every month.
As the audience for podcasts continues to grow, there has never been a better time to start a podcast for your business, brand, or a personal hobby.
If you follow this guide, it will prime you to launch your own podcast and take advantage of this exciting new medium.
What makes podcasts different?
Podcasts are a great way to build a genuine connection with your audience.
Instead of the fractured connection you make through social media, podcasts allow you to engage your audience with unique long-form content. Podcasts are more convenient than blog posts; people can listen to podcasts while driving, working out, or just doing chores around the house.
There is a lot of unexplored space in the podcasting industry. There are at least 600 million blogs, 23 million YouTube channels, but only 800,000 podcasts in Apple Podcasts.
That means for every podcast, there are 750 blogs and 29 YouTube channels.
Imagine the incredible opportunity there was to start a blog in 2004, and you’ll have an idea of where podcasting is today.
Step 1: Develop a podcast concept
Podcasts are as varied as the people that create them.
There are excellent podcasts about history, pop-culture, neuroscience, and even a fictional town where aliens are friends with the Yeti. The only limit to what you can do with a podcast is your own imagination.
Before we tackle questions about choosing a podcast name, format, and show length, let’s consider some fundamental questions.
To start, ask yourself, “Why am I starting a podcast?” and “What is my podcast about?”
Once you’ve answered the why and what, the rest of the concept will fall into place.
The article continues in teaching how to identify your podcast goals, how to pick a podcast theme or topic, name a podcast, use keywords to be found, and then goes into the second step, Step 2: Choose your podcast format, goes then into Step 3: Podcast recording equipment and software, Step 4: Recording your first episode, Step 5: Editing & uploading your first episode, Step 7: Getting listed in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify, and finally, Step 8: Launch your podcast.
It is the most comprehensive guide I have found on the Internet on how to start your own podcast, the owners of buzzsprout even have created little videos which they include in each step in the article. Check it out and read the entire article here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/how-to-make-a-podcast?.
