You did the hard bit – You bought the microphone, said “hey guys, welcome back” more times than you can count, and somehow recorded 40 episodes without your dog barking through all of them. So why does the download graph still look like a heart monitor that has given up? Here is the truth about…
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Here’s a fun thought experiment: Picture your favourite podcast host recording an episode alone in a room, talking into a foam-covered microphone, hoping someone out there is nodding along. Now picture that same host asking a live question, watching hundreds of votes roll in, and reading out a listener’s name on air thirty seconds later….
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Here is the truth about podcasting and radio in 2026: you can have a brilliant show, a loyal audience, and a microphone that cost more than your car, and still be renting your entire relationship with listeners from a platform that could change its algorithm on a Tuesday and never tell you why. Spotify, Apple,…
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Let’s be honest… You already have a podcast on Spotify, a channel on YouTube, and a station that streams “somewhere on the internet, probably.” So why on earth would you build your own app? Great question. And the answer, annoyingly, is: because everyone else’s platform owns your audience, and you’re just renting a room in…
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How do you make money from a podcast or radio station you might be wondering? You have got the voice. You have got the loyal listeners. You have probably even got a jingle that lives rent free in someone’s head. What you might not have yet is a reliable way to turn all that into…
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Today’s article comparing AppBuild.diy vs Podbean is for all you podcasters! Podbean is one of the most complete podcast platforms there is: it hosts your show, distributes it everywhere, and gives you a genuinely strong stack of ways to make money from it. So I want to be fair to it before I draw the…
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