The Podcast Superfriends
Five podcast veterans hosting a monthly live-streamed roundtable about podcasting. If you want to evolve your podcast, or if you've got an idea for a show, there's no better place to start! The Superfriends dig deep on all the details you might not think about: Best practices for your show's website, streamlining your weekly workflow, marketing your podcast to the masses, and getting the most from your RSS feed. Join Jon Gay, David Yas, Johnny Peterson, Catherine O'Brien, and Matt Cundill as they get into the nitty-gritty about podcasting.
Episodes
March 10, 2024 • 57 mins
The Superfriends get together to discuss all things podcasts... including how to improve their shows with segments.
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January 31, 2024 • 74 mins
The 5 Podcast Producers get together to critique one another's shows. We offer feedback to both the producers and the performers from the following shows:
That's Business The Distribution by Juniper The 905er Smidgen Sports Card Madness
In this episode you will hear some of the feedback offered amongst the Podcast Superfriends. Things like:
How to make your show more conversational, why you should or should not swear in your episo...
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January 4, 2024 • 63 mins
The Podcast Superfriends are getting together early in 2024 to revisit their predictions from a year. We can spoil it for you now, there were a lot of HITS and just a few misses.
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December 12, 2023 • 59 mins
The Superfriends get together to share the most valuable things they learned in 2023. Some of the things you will learn include:
Why big guests don't necessarily move the needle for your show. (Matt)
Why your quest for large downloads numbers may be a waste of time, instead you should be aiming for the right audience (Catherine)
The importance of video components, time codes, and leveraging platforms like Twitter to reach a wide...
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November 2, 2023 • 66 mins
Jay Nachlis leads the podcasting and digital initiatives for Coleman Insights. Along with Steve Goldstein at Amplifi Media, they released "The New Rules of Podcasting" which was a deep dive into the behaviour of podcast consumers. Jay is kind enough to join us to talk about the findings. This is a study that was unveiled at Podcast Movement back in August, and has reverberated throughout the podcast an content creation community.
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October 10, 2023 • 59 mins
The Podcast Superfriends dive into the things they want you to stop doing when making podcasts. Here are a few of the things they want you to stop.
Jon Gay: Asking for ratings and reviews at the end of a podcast is less egregious but still not effective.
Matt Cundill shares his frustration with the common practice of including a microphone in podcast artwork, citing it as a cliché and a missed opportunity for creativity.
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September 6, 2023 • 52 mins
It turns out that the biggest takeaway from Podcast Movement was the explosion of video. That likely creates more questions than answers for podcasters. The Podcast Superfriends unpack their favorite video strategies for your podcast.
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July 26, 2023 • 55 mins
The Superfriends get together to come up with some practices regarding Dynamic Ad (or Audio) Insertion. Dynamic ad insertion in podcasting refers to the process of dynamically inserting targeted advertisements into podcast episodes at the time of delivery or playback. Instead of being hard-coded into the original audio file, ads are added to the content on-the-fly, allowing for personalized and up-to-date advertisements to reach li...
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June 6, 2023 • 64 mins
While everyone agrees that transcribing your podcast is a good idea, there is some confusion over its value in SEO, and is investing the time it takes worth it? The Podcast Superfriends get together to discuss their experiences with transcription... so far.
Services mentioned in this episode:
Headliner: https://www.headliner.app/
VEED: https://www.veed.io/
Trint: https://trint.com/
Descript: https://www.descript.com/
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May 5, 2023 • 59 mins
What are some of the things that we wish podcast companies offered? Or not offer? You'd be surprised at the number of times offerings come out and we ask: "Do we really need that?"
A discussion about some of the services and features we think would make podcasting better, and a light critique of some of the things we’re not sure are going to positively move the needle.
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April 12, 2023 • 72 mins
Matt got back from Spain and brings home his own form of the Spanish Inquisition. 20 Questions for the Podcast Superfriends:
(2:12) 1. Your favourite Microphone you recommend to a client that has never recorded before.
(6:34) 2. Best recording platform… Riverside, Squadcast, Zoom or Zencastr and why?
(11:28) 3. What do you edit your shows with?
(21:06) 4. Favourite podcast Host and why do you like it?
5. Favourite podcast about pod...
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March 6, 2023 • 63 mins
Johnny introduces the Podcast Pyramid to Success, and the friends mull over the Infinite Dial Research, and whether You Tube's next attempt at involving themselves with podcasting is gonna be a thing.
They also start talking about Dynamic Ad insertion and whether it is good or bad, and then realize they should do a full episode on it.
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February 1, 2023 • 66 mins
The Podcast Superfriends discuss some best practices for starting a podcast in 2023.
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Johnny - Straight Up Podcasts
David - Boston Podcast Network
Jon - JAG In Detroit Podcasts
Catherine - Branch Out Programs
Matt- The S...
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January 4, 2023 • 64 mins
The Crew is back together to discuss their 2023 Podcast predictions.
In case you missed the live stream of this episode, here are the links we posted in the chat:
OpenAI ChatGPT
Adobe Labs' Project Shasta
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Johnny - Str...
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December 1, 2022 • 38 mins
This week, an intimate interview with one of the Superfriends, David Yas. This conversation was originally Episode 323 of Matt's show, The Sound Off Podcast.
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Johnny - Straight Up Podcasts
David - Boston Podcast Network
Jon - JAG In Detroit Podcasts
Catherine - Branch Out Programs
Matt- Th...
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November 22, 2022 • 66 mins
In this episode, The Podcast Superfriends get together with some podcast episodes for a group listen. All they see is the artwork, then they listen to up to 75 seconds of the episode and discuss. They determine if what they heard was enough to grab their attention!
Here are the podcasts were reviewed.
(9:00) SacTown Talks
(20:00) Powered By Protein
(29:32) Heyfounded
(37:31) Let's Take This Outside
(46:45) America This Week
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October 26, 2022 • 56 mins
Today the Superfriends get together to talk about how to Recession-proof your podcast, and prepare for the upcoming holidays. Believe it or not, there are some awesome holiday marketing hacks in and amongst those days off.
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September 29, 2022 • 63 mins
So you want to start a podcast and you want to do it with a co-host? There are things you need to know. In this episode the Podcast Superfriends discuss things like getting a pre-nup, planning who does what in the work flow, right down to splitting revenue. Basically all the things you don't think about in that moment when you toast to your future podcast success.
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August 31, 2022 • 68 mins
Matt, Jon and Johnny attended Podcast Movement and share what they saw. Join us Monday at 5pm ET and bring your podcast questions.
Check out more from the Superfriends below:
Johnny - Straight Up Podcasts
David - Boston Podcast Network
Jon - JAG In Detroit Podcasts
Catherine - Branch Out Programs
Matt- The Soundoff Podcast Network
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August 9, 2022 • 70 mins
Working with guests is so much more than just inviting them on to the show. Everyone guest also comes with different expectations about podcasting. Today, our podcast experts share their strategies for getting the most out of the podcast guest experience.
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Johnny - Straight Up Podcasts
David - Boston Podcast Network
Jon - JAG In Detroit Podcasts
Catherine - Branch Out Programs
Matt- The So...
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