Audival – Podcasting Tips & Tricks

Watching TED Talks for podcasters might not be your immediate go-to method for inspiration. Yes, they can be a bit formulaic at times, but there’s no denying that when you find a good TED Talk, it’s good. There are a few TED Talks about podcasting that are worth checking out. But for me, it’s the […]

A TV writer friend of mine recently told me a proverb: ‘The shoemaker walks barefoot’* in relation to how someone that works in TV rarely sits down to watch a scripted TV show. I could relate; I spend an awful lot of time trying to make podcasts sound as professional and as polished as possible, […]

We’ve run a lot of surveys over the years here at The Podcast Host. The opportunity to find out the biggest struggles thousands of aspiring and early-stage podcasters face gives us the best chance of serving them, after all. One thing that’s been a constant pain point for our audience over the past decade is […]

2022’s big news in podcasting was video. YouTube added a podcasting wing to its empire. Soon after, a Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights report showed that 28% of respondents preferred to watch their podcasts instead of choosing audio-only. The current emphasis on videos in podcasting appears to favour a style that’s two mics, two […]

In the not-so-distant past, you needed a lot of expensive physical gear and a bunch of cables to add processing to your voice. Then, along came digitization. This meant you could now mix your traditional analogue gear with software, which could simplify the process with plugins.  The drawback was that plugins could only be applied […]