Podcast Method

Dan answers your questions about affiliate codes, post production tweaks, video skype calls, gain staging, audio interface migrating, trying out new microphones, and starting new shows.

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• Host Your Podcast - Fireside
  
• Amazon.com: Sony MDR7506 Professional Large Diaphragm Headphone: Musical Instruments
  
• Apollo Audio Interface with Realtime UAD Processing and Thunderbolt
  
• Call Recorder for Skype - The Skype Audio/Video HD Call Recording Solution for Mac - Ecamm Network
  
• Amazon.com: DBX 286s Microphone Pre-amp Processor: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone, Cardioid: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Telefunken M82 (M82 Kickdrum Mic): Musical Instruments
  
• The Levelator® from The Conversations Network
  
• Auphonic
  
• OWC Digital
  

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Dan talks about the start of 5by5 and its CMS, sticking to your wheelhouse, and answers listener questions about recording a double ender vs Skype recording, minimum downloads that appeal to sponsors, how the future of podcasting compares to blogging, how to get guests on your show, how hosts get paid per show, and cover art.

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Dan talks about gear for recording in the field and in the studio, making specific vs. general podcasts, versatility in podcasting, the Cloudlifter vs. DBX, Apple's Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter, using Zencastr instead of Skype, writing good show notes, and guidelines for good gain.

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• Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter - Apple
  
• Amazon.com: Zoom H4N Digital Multitrack Recorder - 2015 Version: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Zoom H4N Digital Multitrack Recorder - 2015 Version: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: DBX 286s Microphone Pre-amp Processor: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter CL-1: Musical Instruments
  
• Zencastr
  

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Shifting the focus back to listener emails, Dan talks about finding a good co-host, balancing levels, story-style podcasts, replacement episodes, DMCAs, lavalier mics, a Fireside update, and the right way to end a podcast.

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• 5by5 | The Pipeline
  
• 5by5 | Back to Work
  
• Fireside - Podcast hosting and analytics by podcasters for podcasters
  
• Amazon.com: Sony MDR7506 Professional Large Diaphragm Headphone: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: DBX 286s Microphone Pre-amp Processor: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Vocal Microphone without Cable: Musical Instruments
  
• Amazon.com: Zoom H5 Four-Track Portable Recorder: Musical Instruments
  
• Beer Bottle Firestarter! - YouTube
  
• Dan Benjamin is creating Podcasts and videos
  
• Anchor - Radio by the people
  

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Dan talks about Spotify and The Ringer, rising podcast revenue, the size of podcast audiences, Chartable and IAB, SiriusXM and SoundCloud, Audio Hijack, travel USB/XLR mics, 4-input audio interfaces, and listener questions!

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• Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer - Vox — Spotify is making yet another big-budget purchase aimed at getting a lead in the growing podcast industry: The streaming music company has agreed to a deal to purchase The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons.
• The Ringer’s Price Tag Revealed. | Podcast News Daily | insideradio.com — In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Spotify tells investors that it will pay between $141 and $195 million for The Ringer.
• Podcast Ad Revenues Are Quickly Rising - eMarketer Trends, Forecasts & Statistics — The podcasting industry continues to explode with potential for advertisers, and the numbers show it: Marketers spent $479 million on podcast ads in 2018, and podcast advertising revenues are projected to surpass $1 billion by 2021, according to figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC.
• Nielsen: Podcast Listening On Track To Double By 2023. | Podcast News Daily | insideradio.com — More than two decades since becoming a thing, podcast listening is now expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 20%, according to Nielsen Scarborough data from 2014-2019. If that rate continues, the podcast audience could double by 2023. “It’s still growing at a tremendous clip,” Tony Hereau, VP Cross Platform Insights at Nielsen, said Tuesday.
• Chartable achieves IAB Tech Lab Podcast Measurement Certification - Chartable — Chartable, the podcast measurement company, today announced that it has been officially certified by the IAB Technology Laboratory.
• SiriusXM Makes $75 Million Investment in SoundCloud – Variety — SiriusXM Holdings has invested $75 million in SoundCloud, the open audio platform beloved by musicians that has struggled to find a place in a the streaming-service hierarchy. SoundCloud will use this additional investment to accelerate its product development and enhance the services that fuel its global community of creators and listeners, according to the announcement.
• Google Podcasts — Google's new podcast homepage.
• Podcast Subscriber Tracking Is Pointless - Evo Terra - Medium — Most podcasters want one thing: for people to listen to their content. So it makes sense that understanding a podcast’s total subscriber count would be a good thing. Only... it isn’t.
• Amazon.com: Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (3rd Gen) USB Audio Interface with Pro Tools | First: Musical Instruments
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