Audival – Podcasting Tips & Tricks

When checking in on our Podcast Planner Tool data recently, I was interested to note that 53% of over 700 aspiring and early-stage podcasters have no plans to add a video element to their show. This is in spite of the fact that there’s been a lot of noise about video podcasting recently. Just like […]

I’ve been obsessed with audio since I discovered crumpling a piece of paper into my cassette recorder sounded like fire. I was 9. I had a lisp, spoke painfully slow, and sounded like a little girl with a thick Brooklyn, New York accent.  It was a great listen. I have been a lifelong consumer and […]

Just like South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, the largest podcasting markets in Africa, Zambia has plenty of worthy podcasts to listen to. With African media consumers choosing audio to reduce screen time, podfans can enjoy an array of podcasts from Zambia. These podcasts do not just entertain but also inform and educate people. For podcasters […]

Recently, Tom Webster wished in his article “Podcasting, Audiobooks, and the Third Thing.” for an elusive “Third Thing…crafted with all of the creative force of the novelist or biographer, but designed from the ground up to be heard–not just through sound design, but packaged for easy episodic consumption, and written to be heard, not read.” […]

As an independent podcaster, do you ever feel like the industry caters a lot more to the already-established podcasters than it does to indie creators like you?  While the barrier to entry is low in podcasting, there’s no denying that the industry operates in a way that favors the big names and mid-levellers over the […]