Wavve Audio Insider #136: Why Consistent Content Matters for a Great Podcast


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In today’s email:

  1. How to Keep Your Podcast Consistent
  2. What Makes a Great Podcast
  3. Design of the Week
  4. Missed and Listed

How To Keep Your Podcast Consistent

Consistency is key to building a loyal podcast audience and ensuring long-term success. Regularly publishing high-quality episodes helps establish trust with your listeners and keeps them coming back for more. However, maintaining consistency can be challenging. In this blog post, we’ll explore strategies to help you keep your podcast consistent and sustain your audience’s interest.

Why Consistency Matters

Consistency in podcasting helps you build credibility, grow your audience, and improve your podcast’s overall quality. Listeners are more likely to subscribe and stay engaged when they know they can rely on your podcast for regular, valuable content.

Wavve goes into detail about seven tips to ensure consistency. Here's the overview:

  1. Create a content calendar
  2. Batch record episodes
  3. Set realistic goals
  4. Develop a consistent format
  5. Engage with your audience
  6. Outsource tasks
  7. Monitor and adjust

What Makes a Great Podcast

Robert Rose knows a thing or two about content marketing. The marketing guru weighs in on what makes podcasts stand out in an article on DesignRush.com. It's never a bad idea to get ideas from marketing experts when it comes to building your audience.


DESIGN OF THE WEEK

Analysis: Neat content boxes are the style here. The use of a copy block in the middle, breaking up the pictures of the host and guest, is a home run. Font choices are all good and the color scheme is appealing (that's not easy to do with yellow and black). We have one suggestion, moving the title up so it occupies just one line of text. That would eliminate some visual interference. We don't mean to be picky, it's still a standout example of good design.


MISSED AND LISTED

📰 Longform podcast shutters after 12 years. Read the story.

🏭 11 tips for creating brand consistency across all platforms. Learn more


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