How can you incorporate new technology and trends into your podcast workflow?

To keep your podcast fresh and engaging, embrace new technology and trends. Upgrade your recording equipment, try remote recording tools, and add interactive elements like Q&A sessions. Use transcription services for accessibility and experiment with virtual or augmented reality. Incorporate dynamic ad insertion, share on social media, and explore automated editing tools. Consider live streaming for real-time interaction and use analytics to understand your audience. Collaborate with others for cross-promotion and stay updated on monetization strategies. By staying adaptable, you can keep your podcast interesting and attract a broader audience.

I always look for doing tasks more efficiently without lowering the quality. Once I identify that, I look for tools that can help. I usually look at appsumo given that you can get tools for one time fee.

Podcasts are all about the content, yes? Nobody is going to listen because it's packed full of the latest tech trends (unless your podcast is about describing them). In fact, the tech should be transparent, just there to help with the production process to help you get your content across as effectively and efficiently as possible. So use the latest trendy shiny thing by all means but make sure it's enhancing the user experience, production workflow or both. If it's neither then you're using it for its own sake. That means you need to understand your processes and how they relate to each other in a workflow. Be critical - is it ideal? Are you working around something that a different approach could solve?

Look - so many ppl want to re-invent the wheel ... my recommendation here is to follow a very legitimate / seasoned podcastor & ask them what their recommendations are quarterly... I like to call this "outsourcing your knowledge" - you don't have to be an expert, just someone in your network has to be

If you're starting out. I recommend audacity. It's a free open source program and it can help you understand how to edit without worrying about spending money. Other cost effective software would be Reaper. If you want a specific DAW for podcasts, Hindenburg is the best but comes at a cost.

Listen to @brett (below) - clearly he's done his homework so you don't have to! You don't have to be an expert on everything, especially when getting started.

If you have no budget, Audacity is the gold standard for free podcast editing and recording. It's open source and there are plenty of free guides. However, if you're looking for bang for your buck I recommend a $12-a-month Descript subscription to get access to a host of AI-enabled features and video editing that will allow you to scale and simplify your workflows. Without adding video to your podcast workflows, you're also missing out on a key potential growth driver.

I can't believe this isn't talked about more. You want to grow a new show? POST SHORT FORM VIDEOS ON TIKTOK, LINKEDIN & TWITTER! It's that simple (*wink*)

Podcasts can form fantastic promotional flywheels - if you parcel out your podcast into other pieces of content, all of which can be enabled by AI. We've found both written + video content can help drive growth: - Short-form video: Drive eyeballs to your brand on YouTube Shorts, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Twitter, plus its relatively easy to automate. - Long-form video: Create a community of subscribers and generate a new income stream by putting full-length video pod recordings on YouTube. - Long-form writing: Starting a Substack around your podcast can take some work, but the growth rewards from Substack recommendations, additional income stream, and email capture are worth it. - Short-form writing: Easy to leverage on LinkedIn & X.

Yes, of course.... again, don' start from scratch here, find a podcast host who is doing this really well and copy their playbook. The host of Entrepreneur on Fire has a good one!

Wow, I should have scrolled down to this before commenting on all of the above ... let me re-state what is being said: there are peopl who have doing this for decades, following all of the tools, techniques, etc. ... seek them out & learn from then!

If you're starting out or if you've been podcasting for a while - you can learn from others. Plenty of podcasters and podcast-related companies like Descript, Spotify, and Buzzsprout have shared free resources that can help you learn best practices and get started. But learning isn't just for new podcasters - established podcasters should build a network of other hosts, expert editors, and key listeners who they can learn from and engage with. You can also approximate this via online communities or in-person events attendance to rapidly acquire knowledge. The podcast technique that may have been industry standard when you started, may be obsolete two years later: you can't stop learning and growing your expertise.

You may think you know your podcast audience, but have you communicated with them? If you're not both tracking and analyzing your numbers but also engaging with your audience whether via listener questions, surveys, or 1:1 outreach, you're doing yourself a disservice. The more you learn and test, the more you realize your assumptions may have been wrong. In our most recent listener survey for my podcast Dev Interrupted we discovered that much of our listener growth wasn't in our target audience of established software engineering leaders - but was early career software engineers looking to learn from experts about how to develop their career. Identifying these learnings is crucial to establishing the correct strategy for your brand.

Instead of trying every new tool on the market, think about where you get bottlenecked in the creation process. Are you stuck with editing? Distribution? Do you constantly find yourself repeating the same tasks? These are worthwhile places to start looking for new tech that could help you progress faster.