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Tips for Solo Podcasting: How to Engage Your AudienceSolo podcasting can be a rewarding experience, offering complete creative control and the opportunity to share your unique perspective. However, engaging your audience without the dynamic of a co-host or guest can be challenging. Engagement is crucial for building a loyal listener base. When you effectively engage your audience, you foster a sense of community and encourage listeners to return for future episodes. A recent Wavve blog post outlines nine tips to help solo podcasters engage with their audience. Below, are a couple of real world examples that should serve as inspiration.
Using AI as a Co-host for Solo PodcastersA couple of months ago Sounds Profitable posted a thought-provoking article, Meet Your New Co-host, which delved into how AI can serve as an assistant to solo podcasters. Keep this digital path in mind when you're trying to boost engagement or streamline your process. Analysis: We're big fans of minimal design, when it works. It does here. Shades of red can be distracting, but here red is used very well and gives the main image hip appeal. The font choice and yellow color jump off of the red background. Copy is limited, which isn't a bad thing at all. 📰 How Apple's podcast transcriptions came to be. Learn more. 🏭 Google DeepMind shifts from research lab to AI factory. Read more. 📢^^ 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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TV & Film Podcasts: A Massive Growth Opportunity New research shows a huge untapped space in podcasting: Big audience potential: Over half of Americans want TV/film podcasts, but only 19% listen today. They influence streaming:16% of listeners have subscribed to a streaming service after hearing about a show. Highly engaged fans: 79% recommend podcasts to others — strong word-of-mouth power. Smart TVs fuel discovery: More podcast listening now happens on smart TVs, tightening the link between...
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