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What Is the Best Day of the Week to Publish Podcast Episodes?

Should you publish your podcast episodes on a particular day of the week, avoid the weekends, publish on popular days, or something else?

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How to Make Episode Artwork Show in Podcast Apps (even in Apple Podcasts!)

Enhance the experience for your audience by making unique artwork for each episode. But you need to adapt to how each app might display the image.

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Audacity Is Improving Fast! Here Are the Top New Features to Try

The Audacity software is popular among countless podcasters at all levels of production! at some point! It’s a free, cross-platform audio-editing app, so almost anyone can use it. But Audacity has historically lagged behind other audio-editing apps until now! So here are some of my favorite new features that I think warrant giving Audacity another try.

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How Proxies and iOS 14.5 Affect Your Podcast

In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!

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What Is Podcasting 2.0 and Why Does It Matter?

The podcasting industry has grown a lot since its birth in 2004, but the core of what a podcast could be and what it could do hasn’t changed much. Now, Podcasting 2.0 revolutionizes the industry with highly requested innovations that will help everyone on all sides of the RSS feeds.

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Zencastr Adds Hosting, Editing, and Monetization for Podcasters

Zencastr makes it easy to get high-quality, multi-ender audio and video podcast recordings with your guests and cohosts. Now, they’ve added multiple features to help you edit and monetize your podcast!

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Plan Your Podcast Better with Podcast Studio Pro

With experience in professional film and TV writing, Podcast Studio Pro has been built specifically for the planning and organization needs of podcasters.

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Focusrite’s New Vocaster Audio Interface Is Made Specifically for High-Quality Podcasting

I’ve recommended Focusrite’s audio interfaces for years, but they always required a little hacking to make them work for podcasting. But the new Vocaster One and Vocaster Two offer the same quality but in a new product designed for podcasters! Vocaster automatically sets your gain (with up to 70 dB of clean gain!) for each…

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Multistream with Multiple Guests and ISO Footage with Ecamm Live

Ecamm Live is easy software for live-streaming from your Mac. And it’s now even better! You can now stream to multiple destinations simultaneously (like Facebook Live, YouTube Live, custom RTMP, and more) and even bring those separate comments onto the screen so your entire audience can see them. For more advance productions, Ecamm Live now…

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New for Blubrry Podcast-Hosting Customers: Media Kits, Education, Monetization, and Closed Captions

Blubrry is my top podcast-hosting provider for seamless integration with WordPress. This year, they released four great new features to help you podcast better! Automatic media kits Using the audience survey data you can collect through your Blubrry account, Blubrry now automatically populates a media kit for your podcast. It updates every 24 hours with…

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