r/podcasting

I see podcast that go for 30 minutes, i see some that go for 3 hours. How long are your podcast episodes? is there a sweet spot for time?

Sometimes a host asks a really interesting question, but before the guest has a chance to explore it, the conversation moves on to the next topic. The episode ends up covering a lot, but nothing feels like it had room to breathe.

Ironically, the episodes I remember most are usually the ones where the hosts were comfortable sitting with one idea a little longer instead of trying to fit everything into an hour.

I have also noticed that some podcast-focused teams like PodcastCola seem to leave space for conversations to develop naturally instead of constantly steering them back to the outline, which probably helps listeners feel more invested.

Curious if anyone else has noticed this. Do you prefer podcasts that cover a lot of ground, or ones that spend more time exploring fewer ideas?

Hi Everyone! Hope you are well. I (26F) am a recent film school graduate. I am currently building a brand focused on making short films and am thinking of starting my own podcast on the side. As a lover of fantasy, it would be fantasy-themed and maybe talk about being creative with Cerebral Palsy, but I am quite interested in what topics I can talk about there besides that. I know there are tutorials out there, but I wanted to know if anyone had started one. Any advice for a beginner? How did you get started? What are interesting topics to explore, etc. Thank you so much, and God Bless.

Hi everyone! I want to start my own podcast, I’ve been so scared but I am finally ready! However I have a slight problem, I don’t know which language to pick. My native tongue is Dutch, however my English is really comfortable to me too.

I think I would be able to reach more people by speaking English, however there is a lot of competition.
In the Dutch market there are not many podcasts that are made.

I would love to reach a lot of people but to be honest I am so afraid of being embarrassed by speaking a different language than my native tongue. On the other side I am afraid that the podcast will flop.

What do you guys think I should do? Should I play safe and go Dutch? Or take the risk and go English?

I have a serialized show (Vaso & Vibes: A Nursing Thriller Podcast) and each season is a different storyline, though it weaves in key subjects and aspects from the prior season (I just got started two months ago, for perspective). I am thinking of having guests on after a plot plays out and a season effectively wraps up. Like some of my friends in nursing or medicine or just my friends to discuss the season. This would serve to maintain my episode uploading schedule while I create content for the upcoming season. Has anyone else done this? If so, did the diversity of changing up the podcast style have a positive, negative, or indifferent impact on your audience response or stats?

Hello! I use Adobe Audition to edit the podcast my husband and I record. My audio file almost always has very brief, high-pitched "clicks" or "pops" (it comes from air pressure changes in my sinuses as I talk). The "Automatic Click Remover" cleans up some mouth noises, but it does nothing for these "clicks". They show up as a bright dot or line in the Spectral Frequency Display / Spectrogram that I have been highlighting and deleting / silencing. Sometimes they are embedded "in" my speech, sometimes they occur immediately before or after I say a word. There are hundreds of them per episode so obviously this is very time consuming. I'm curious if there's a more efficient way to edit them out? I've tried everything the AI chatbot recommended and everything it recommended either didn't help with the noise or ended up distorting the speech too much. Thank you!

I want to start a video podcast and I want a reliable way to record quality local video and audio (iso) from mainly my guest's feed.

What do you currently use and how?

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I looked into paid services, like descript and riverside, but the recent reviews of those are mostly bad. ( I mean already losing a recording of 1 guest is already bad in my opinion, and then you'd be paying a huge price for those.) Online almost all good recommendations or reviews are of more than 4 months ago, where for some of those programs a lot has changed since then.

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So for the last 3 weeks I've tried to tackle using vdo.ninja, with or without obs, but frustratingly enough, I haven't found a reliable way to make it work consistently either. Varying things sometimes even with supposedly the same settings work sometimes and other times, it doesn't work for different reasons or 1-all recordings have failed in some way.

So instead of trying to reinvent the wheel or getting into more frustrating weeks of testing for a reliable recording setup, what are the reliable recording setups you still use to this day?

For recording a video podcast with remote guests, getting their quality video/audio from their camera/device?

Do you require anything from your guests in advance, like what they can/can't use in their setup? I can imagine you want as little technical thought for your guests as possible but still get good quality video/audio. And if possible redundancy/backups.

BTW I record my own video with my FX30, currently set to 4k, 30fps, 10 bit internally. Is that way too high, I got like 56 GB for a 1h15min test podcast, just my feed. I also use a cheaper (40,- hdmi 4k capture card to my laptop) and a fifine microphone. Internet connection should be well, wifi up to 1gb up/down.

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Please Help

And boy was I wrong!

Some of my best download numbers are on episodes I keep it real and talk about what I really love.

I always try to be respectful to all types of audiences, but being a niche podcast it’s sometimes hard to grow. However; Ive been able to unite different communities by keeping the conversations, still within the niche, broad and explaining when it might be a topic not everyone listen might be familiar with.

I’ve gotten great feedback from listeners on my audio quality, which was a bug surprise for me 😂 cuz im an audiophile; but I don’t how to work a recording software.

I’m so grateful for the support.

I'm wanting to start a podcast/video of subjects that mean something to me. More history, politics, but mostly economics. I feel that podcasts nowadays aren't tailored to what I am really looking for. They criticize people more than they get down to the actual truth. Economics runs everything (I feel like). I'm 27 starting with $100. I have a half working laptop. No mic. No desk. And I live with roommates in the basement. I dont know what I'll need but I'll work for it. I'm hoping to keep my political association out of the podcast and to deliver facts. My interest hasn't sparked up out of the blue I have two bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Political Science and I worked at my state Capitol. I am very serious about this. Any help is always appreciated, thank you.

Hi all!

I’m really starting to focus on the social media aspect of my podcast by pushing it out to various platforms. I’ve gotten to a point where the production is pretty seamless so I have more attention to devote to this.

I’m a little confused as to how you’re supposed to link to your podcast in an efficient way. For instance, do you put an Apple podcast link on posts, or a Spotify link, or a link to the show on the hosting platform? Is there an easy way to have one link and then have that open up in the preferred platform for the listener? I’m just looking at ways to avoid friction for people subscribing and listening.

My inclination is there’s not a simple answer to this, but I’m hoping I’m wrong about that one.

Thanks so much everyone!

So I make a D&D podcast with some friends and we all do voices for our characters. And something I'm realizing is that a filter that may work on one area without the character voice makes it sound kinda wack for the character voice. This is especially atrocious when editing the DM's audio because he's doing the voice of every NPC. Y'all got any tips other than editing sections individually? Edit: I used Adobe Audition

Hi Buzzsprout users!

I have a couple of questions about Buzzsprout's payout process:

• I know you can withdraw your earnings via PayPal. Are there any other payout options besides this?
• Is there a minimum balance you need to have before you can withdraw your earnings?

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

I’m writing a message here because my best friend and I have created something: a hybrid between a podcast and an audiobook where we tell the adventures of a detective, in the 1910s. It’s pretty fun and all, but we’re really bad with computers and social media.

So I’d really appreciate some advice on how to promote it and how to successfully get it noticed.

Thank you very much in advance for your help !

I have davichi and audidcity but not a crew or money. Just a concept .

EDIT Oh and i nedd a female voice

Or i can do audio narration but dunno how popular that is

I’m 8 episodes into hosting, and I’ve really been enjoying the conversations with guests. I am getting new insights while chatting, and it’s helping me refine my show’s concept as I go.

Editing has been fun too. Feels good to learn a new skill. Wish I could say the same for marketing… that’s still something I’m adjusting to.

What about you?

I love Deadwood and it is so philosophically rich. I can only find podcasts hosted by men but I would love to find a woman interested in co-hosting a Deadwood podcast. It’s frustrating to me that the general POV is from the male gaze while a woman’s gaze is considered “other.” If this makes sense to you, please contact me

I really like acast but I am not receiving any payouts despite 6 months of ad revenue and I am
Unable to get any personal podcast sponsors. I’ve tried to do some research but just feel so last. I’m able to upload to acast for free so I’m happy about that and nervous to switch platforms, how does that work will I loose all my stats and have to start from 0? Any advice appreciated or if you know any resources I can look into!
Also my podcast is new but it it is dong well

Starring Robert Fera as a younger Zed Aurum, Gilded Savior is a 10-episode YouTube series releasing weekly every Wednesday. This series will tell the story of Zed's tragic fall from grace and into the clutches of King Mynah Smith IX, setting the stage for Wrath of Mynah. This will all be released on the Wrath of Mynah YouTube channel.

I've made the frontpage before, but I have never received so many spammy messages as I have this week about podcasting. What is it about this community that attracts so many con-artists?

Loved everyone else responses by the way!

I had made a post a while back about how my cohost was not doing his share of work when it came to our show. We run a silly horror themed podcast with some fun segments. Over the course of two years we switched to a video podcast, so my wife and I built a super cool creepy old cabin set, to serve as the backdrop of two guys talking horror in an actual horror themed cabin. Think Tucker and Dale vs Evil vibes.. in a video podcast format. I worked really hard on props, segments, editing style and he just wasn't chipping in. I couldn't even get him to share episodes or shorts, he would often seemingly sabotage any episode if I had picked the subject matter. Our podcast had sat still with more or less the same subs until I really started pushing shorts and other promo material, over the past 6 months or so the numbers have really started to move, however I still could not get him to help in any real meaningful way. So about two weeks ago, I let him know that I was going to continue the show, but I wasn't going to be doing it with him anymore. I feel really good about my decision, it's better for my mental health and my creativity... the only thing that sucks is essentially losing a friend I've had for a long time.