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Podcasting Tips

One-Click Distribution. Your New Weapon for Reaching Thousands of Listeners!

Jun 20, 2020 / By / 6 Comments
(Last Update: June 18, 2020) At Spreaker we want to give you the best opportunities to make your podcast a huge success, how can we help you do that? By giving you as many tools and features for creating excellent content and facilitating easy podcast distribution. With Spreaker there are already so many ways for you to personalize your podcasting experience: live stream or pre-record, experiment with music and sound, monetize via our revenue program and now we’ve added a super simple way for you to syndicate your podcast to all the key platforms. Update: We’ve just added another distribution channel to the list: JioSaavn.
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Podcasting Tips

3 Simple Ways to Reach Listeners and Keep Them Engaged

May 3, 2017 / By / No Comment

(Updated July 2019) What would your podcast be if your listeners weren’t there? It would just be a one-way conversation, a full-on monologue shared with no one but yourself. There’s almost no point in producing a podcast if there’s no one there to dialogue with.

And so, once you’ve found the right words to say and have used the best tools at your disposal to do so, the next step is to really focus on getting those words to open ears – and get them wanting more.

There are three components to reaching listeners and getting them hooked: distribution, engagement, and getting them loyal. Here’s how to approach each using Spreaker’s professional podcasting tools:

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Spreaker Podcast Radio Gets a New Sleep Timer and Playback Speed Settings

Feb 28, 2017 / By / No Comment

Great podcasts are easy to love, so why not make them easy to listen to? We know you’re fitting in your listening-time anywhere you can—like on the way to the movies or as you’re getting ready to go bed—so we’ve added a few extras to Spreaker Podcast Radio for both iOS and Android to facilitate things: introducing new playback settings!

Sometimes inconveniences like time restraints get in the way, but a great podcast listening experience means that time works around you, and not the other way around. Now, a new sleep timer and playback speed settings will help you manipulate those limits.

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Podcasting Tips

How to Measure Your Podcast Analytics with Spreaker

Sep 7, 2016 / By / 2 Comments

As content creators, podcasters must be able to measure the success and strengths of their product. Understanding the full scope of the stats and data available can be a challenge, but is necessary to improving the quality of your content. Essentially, the more resources you have on your listeners, the greater the possibility of creating better, appealing content, as well as connecting with sponsors and advertisers.

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Podcasting Tips

How To Create Amazing Podcast Cover Art: A Complete Guide

Aug 17, 2016 / By / 7 Comments
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(Updated on November 2018)

First impressions count, there’s no denying it. And, although people always say to never judge a book by its cover – they inevitably do, especially when it comes to podcasts. Good cover art can make the difference between being ‘featured’ in Apple Podcasts (which is the new branding and identity from iTunes) and gaining tons of new listeners, to appearing unprofessional and setting your podcast up to fall flat on its face.

Therefore, the real question is: how do you make your podcast’s image pack a proverbial punch? Luckily there are some handy (and easy-to-follow) tricks you can employ which will immediately help your visuals – we’ve listed 9 of the most important in this written tutorial. Read the guide, cross the items off your checklist and give your podcast some added pzazz!

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Why are podcasts the new blogs?

Feb 2, 2016 / By / 1 Comment

Do you remember how, ten years ago, we were all obsessed with blogs? And how many times you said (or you’ve been told) “you should start writing a blog”? Suddenly, even your grandma had a blog about gardening tips.

Don’t you think it’s the same now, with podcasts? And doesn’t it seems awkwardly amazing to listen to your grandma’s voice talking about how to keep your cyclamen from dying in the winter? It’s amazing!

It is undeniable that podcasts are living their golden age and that the ingredients are basically three: easy-to-use platforms, professionalism, and incisive content creation – the same successful ingredients for putting together a successful blog. So, what’s the difference? And which one is better?

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Podcasting Tips

The Ultimate Guide to Submitting a Podcast to Apple Podcasts (iTunes’ New Name)

May 15, 2015 / By / 7 Comments

(Updated on June 2019) iTunes, first introduced by Apple in 2005 was the first smartphone app to host podcasts. Not only is iTunes the first distribution outlet for podcasters, but it also is the most popular. In the world of podcasting, you can’t say you are a podcaster without submitting your podcast to iTunes. Though new syndication points have recently launched on platforms, like Google and Spotify (and it appears that Pandora will soon join the game as well) Apple remains the main and most popular podcast distribution outlet. In fact, in 2018 it rebranded to be named Apple Podcasts. With an entirely new iPhone app, it now holds 500k available podcasts and has reached over 50 billion downloads.

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