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So Many New Things in Podcasting, How Do You Keep Up? — April 2023 Newsletter

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Hello again!

Last month I wrote about some resources for podcasters and some of the updates coming to Apple Podcasts. But Apple isn't the only one shaking things up in the podcasting space.
If you're a podcaster, you'll also want to keep an eye on Spotify — especially if you host your podcast on Anchor.
Check out Ashley Carman's Twitter thread covering Spotify's Stream On from a few weeks ago. One of the major announcements was the hosting platform Anchor is being rebranded as Spotify for Podcasters.
There seems to be A LOT of restructuring, rebranding, and rebuilding in the podcasting space right now. As a creative independent podcaster, it can seem overwhelming to try to keep up.
That brings me to this month’s tip 🙂
Please enjoy the read and reply back if you have any questions, comments or suggestions for upcoming newsletter topics! 

Quick Podcasting Tip

Seasoned podcasters already know this, but when you're in a fast-growing space such as podcasting, you want to make sure you're not only focusing on your own show, but the industry itself.

When I started, there were only a handful of people covering the space and it was easy to find and follow them. Now that podcasts are more mainstream, a lot more news is happening and it's harder to keep track of the startups, mergers, buyouts, and rebrands. You might think it doesn't affect you as an independent creative podcaster, and not all of it does.

Luckily there are some great people who happily curate all this new information and package it into podcasts and newsletters that can help you stay informed.

Here is a smattering of some of my favorites and some of your suggestions when I asked over on my Instagram Stories last week!

Podcasts

Newsletters

As much as the former journalist in me would love to talk about podcasting news and updates in my newsletter, there's no way I'd be able to curate and cover everything I'd want to in a monthly newsletter.

So be sure to click on some of those resources to stay informed about the quickly-moving podcasting space.

5 Types of Challenging Podcast Guests

When I talked about my most recent blog post, 5 Types of Challenging Podcast Guests (and How to Handle Them) in my Instagram Stories, I heard from many of you how you’ve encountered a few of these in the wild!

Maybe you'll recognize them:

  1. The “No Need to Prepare Ahead of Time” Guest

  2. The One-Word Answer Guest

  3. The Guest with the Bad Audio

  4. The Guest with Their Own Agenda

  5. The Interrupting Guest

 

Have you had your own podcasting encounters with any of these guests? Let me know! I had a blast writing this blog post so I'm glad to get such great feedback and so pleased to know you're enjoying it!

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