Product Team Simplecast Spotlight: Dane Cardiel Meet Dane Cardiel, Simplecast's Director of Partnerships
Podcast Lifestyle When’s the Right Time to Sell Merch? Q&A with Cotton Bureau’s Co-Founder, Nate Peretic We get a lot of questions from podcasters about merch–when's the right time to start making it? how do you handle shipping it? can you actually make money?–so we chatted with Nate Peretic, co-founder of Cotton Bureau.
Podcast Help Smart Recirculation: Making the Most of Older Content You've got a huge back catalogue of episodes–how can you make them work for you?
Podcast Help How to Host the Perfect Listening Party One great way to gently ease your nascent podcast out of its cocoon–and probably pick up a few loyal fans in the process–is to host an in-person listening party.
Podcast Lifestyle What'd the Simplecast Team Listen to in February? As you might expect for people that work at a podcasting company, we listen to a lot of podcasts. Here are a few from February.
Podcast Lifestyle Join us at On Air Fest! Hey, what are you up to next weekend? If you're like us, you'll find us at On Air Fest in the Simplecast Audio Lounge!
Podcast Help 6 Ways To Know Your Podcast Marketing Is Working–Besides Downloads How do you know all the time you're spending on marketing is paying off? Downloads are a great place to start, but they're not the be-all, end-all.
Podcast Lifestyle 10 Lessons From Our YouTube Space LA Panel Couldn't make it out to our Storytelling Structure for Podcasts panel at YouTube Space LA? No worries! We pulled out some of the highlights for you from the evening.
Podcast Help 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting–That Aren't Sponsorship! So, you want to start monetizing your podcast, but you think you're not quite ready to go out there and pitch sponsors? We happen to disagree but, we pulled together a few monetization options for you anyways.
Podcast Lifestyle Team Simplecast Spotlight: Jeanine Percival Wright Meet Jeanine Percival Wright, Simplecast's COO, CLO, and actual lawyer!
Podcast Help How (and Why!) To Find The Best Guests For Your Show What do Law & Order: SVU, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and, maybe, your podcast have in common? They've all got guest appearances!
Podcast Help 6 Steps to Get Started with Podcast Sponsorships There are a lot of ways to monetize, but for today, we’re going to focus on one of the big ones: sponsorships.
Podcast Help Our Favorite Facebook Groups for Podcast Creators As much as we love going to conferences and meetups, we also know that some locations don't have a large base of podcast creators–and travel is expensive!
Podcast Lifestyle So You Got Your First Bad Review. Now What? It happens to everyone eventually (really!)–your first negative review. That sinking feeling in your stomach? Totally normal, don't worry!
Podcast Help All the Gear You Need to Get Started Podcasting Low-quality podcast gear or equipment that’s just ill-suited for your environment can really hold you back. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend a million dollars just to get decent sound, either.
Podcast Help Small (But Important!) Podcasting Benchmarks to Celebrate Podcast benchmarking and taking the time to celebrate small successes is just as important as acknowledging failures.
Podcast Lifestyle A Master Class in Episode Art From Scotty Russell We were absolutely obsessed when we saw Scotty Russell's amazing artwork for each of his episodes, so we asked him a little bit about his process, what he's learned making unique art for his show, and if other podcasters can leverage making striking artwork for their show.
Podcast Lifestyle Team Simplecast Spotlight: Mike Murphy Get to know Mike Murphy, one of our product support specialists!
Podcast Help How Can You Use YouTube To Benefit Your Podcast? If you’ve been asking “should I put my podcast on YouTube?” the answer is… kinda.
Podcast Help Training Your Ear for Audio: Why does my podcast sound like that? The key to producing a high-quality sounding podcast is to identify and address audio problems from the start.
Podcast Lifestyle Team Simplecast Spotlight: Addy Get to know Addy Saucedo from our customer success team–better known as The Podcast Planner!
Podcast Lifestyle 7 Ways to Make Yourself a Better Interviewer The interview format for podcasts is a classic for a reason: it helps you show your audience something (and someone!) new, and it allows you potentially leverage someone else's audience. You might feel a little nervous going into your first interview on your podcast, but that's okay!
Podcast Help Podcast SEO: 7 Ways to Optimize Your Show The higher your show ranks on search engines like Google or on podcast directories like iTunes, TuneIn, Stitcher, and Player.fm, the more people will notice and check out your podcast.
