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The Ultimate Guide to Podcast BrandingCreating a recognizable brand is essential when it comes to building a business. It's equally important if you're trying to build your podcast audience. Podcasting continues to grow in popularity, and with millions of podcasts available, standing out is more important than ever. Effective branding is key to making your podcast memorable and attracting a loyal audience. A recent blog post by Wavve provides the ultimate guide to podcast branding in 2024. A few of the tips to consider.
How to Not Ruin Your BrandEstablishing your brand isn't easy and takes time. Destroying it can take just a few seconds. Sounds Profitable posted an article recently explaining a few of the ways to turn off an audience. Here are the top five ways to offend your listeners, broken down by political affiliation.
The post goes into much more insightful detail. We often talk about how to build an audience, but how not to make sure you keep one is important too. Analysis: Font usage and word design can say a lot. Separating "Make 7-Figures" from the rest of the text draws the viewers eye, to the key part of the title. Who doesn't want to make seven figures? Highlighting this essential part of text is smart and leads me to want to find out exactly how I can make big bucks. The overall design is fairly clean and simple, which is a nice compliment to the main callout. 🆕 What Google AI's revamp means for content marketing's future. Find out more. 🎧 20 tips for starting a business podcast from Forbes. See the list. 📢^^ YOUR AD HERE! Knock, Knock. Who's there? Spotlight. Spotlight, who? This email goes to registered creators at wavve.co or those subscribed to The Wavve Blog. Wavve helps [WORK_ROLE GOES HERE] creators grow their influence online with social video and text. |
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The Inventory and the Scale: Growing Audiences Starts with Creators Following up on last week’s look at entry barriers, this week we dive into how to support underrepresented creators so podcast audiences can truly grow in 2026.Key Takeaways: • Representation shapes audiences: Audiences reflect the diversity of creators; marketing alone isn’t enough. • Different challenges, different solutions: • Entry barriers for women need role models and industry support. • Retention challenges for LGBTQ+...
Books Every Podcaster Can Learn From Podcasting tools and platforms change fast—but the fundamentals don’t. This curated reading list highlights books that help podcasters strengthen the skills that matter most: storytelling, interviewing, audience understanding, creativity, and sustainable growth. The recommendations span narrative audio, journalism, interviews, collaboration, mindset, and monetization. Some focus on craft and story structure, others on building trust with listeners, growing...
In Case You (Were Podcasting and) Missed It Home Is Now Where Americans Listen MostAmericans now consume most audio at home, not in cars, with at-home listening stabilizing at around 55% of total audio use, per Edison Research. Video Podcasts Still Struggle Across AppsAlthough video podcasts exist in open RSS, most podcast apps don’t fully support video playback. Only a small share of listeners actually see video when pressing play. Podcast Launches Inched Up in 2025New podcast feeds rose...