More announcements came this week, like the plan and service changes at Blubrry. We’re giving our advanced hosting customers more monthly storage at no cost to them and we’ve released an updated audience survey for podcast listeners to fill out. But, we don’t just talk about us this episode, we mention Podcast Movement Evolutions, a best practice and changing your podcast content into a book. Big thanks to Dr. Denise for joining Todd this time as she’s our podcaster of the month and was a joy to have on the show.

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• Kai Chuk, Director of Partnerships at YouTube, will have a session at Podcast Movement Evolutions
  
  
• YouTube paying up to $300k to get podcasters to do more videos
  
  
• Spotify removing content from RT and Sputnik
  
  
• Apple’s podcast app keeps getting worse says Fast Company
  
  
• Only 1.22% of podcast episodes use chapters in any way
  
  
• “Host read ads are the beachfront property of podcast advertising” – Tom Webster
  
  
• Just how many podcasts are there anyway? 
  
  
• Bill Maher is starting an independent podcast called Club Random
  
  

Stick with it. Publish enough episodes to foster an audience or following.

One or two episodes isn’t typically enough for a listener to know if they want to stick around regularly or subscribe. We tend to see that if podcasters make it past the 7 and then 15 or so episode mark, they’ll stick with it and the same can be said for audiences.

• Blog post: Podcaster of the Month, Dr. Denise McDermott, MD
  
  
• We’ve got a revamped audience survey
  
  
• Hosting plan changes are being made very soon!
  
  
• Still more to come!
  
  

Turn your podcast into a book

Dr. Denise McDermott, MD – Podcaster of the Month

Question: If I want to have a guest on my podcast, do they need to sign a release form or anything legal like that?

Answer: It’s not required, but it could greatly work in your favor to have them sign one, even a simple version. Most likely, all will go smoothly with your guest, however on the off chance that it doesn’t, something like this could assist in any trouble you run into with them. Gordon Firemark, a known podcast lawyer, has a downloadable one on his site.

Got a question you’d like us to answer on the show? Drop an email to mike@blubrry.com (audio, text, video) and we may use it.

The best place for support with any Blubrry products/services is our ticket system (https://blubrry.com/support/). Tickets give the whole team access rather than direct emails or calls.

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Coming to you this week from The New Media studios in Coldwater, Michigan & Mike Dell’s World Studio in Traverse City, Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team.

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