Podcast SEO in 2026: How Listeners Find Your Show – PCI 471

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I'm Mike Dell, VP of customer relations here

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at Blueberry.

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And I'm Todd Cochran, CEO and founder of

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Blueberry.

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Today, we're gonna talk about video podcasting.

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Not the YouTube

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style, but the RSS

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delivered video

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that has been around since the beginning of

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podcasting.

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You're listening to Podcast Insider hosted by Mike

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Dell, Todd Cochran, and Mackenzie Bennett from the

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Blueberry team,

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bringing you weekly insights, advice, and insider tips

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and tricks to help you start, grow, and

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thrive through podcasting,

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all with the support of your team here

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at Blueberry Podcasting.

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Welcome. Let's dive in.

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Yes. You can do video podcasts.

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And and here at Blueberry, since day one,

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we have supported video podcasting. And, again, that's

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via the RSS feed. There are other forms

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so so called nowadays. So

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but, we we definitely have supported it from

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day one, and it's been a thing since

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day one. But a lot of people are

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talking about it now.

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And when it comes to podcasting in general,

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you know, a video podcast is really not

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that much harder to publish

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in an RSS feed than audio is. The

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only really difference is is you uploaded m

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p four,

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the best format for video podcasts, and the

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rest is the same.

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But, of course, on the production side, it's

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it's a bit more complex and doing a

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video

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podcast via RSS

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is truly more cancel proof. It's got the

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same cancel proof attributes as audio does. And,

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basically, you're you can't be taken down for

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anything that you say or your platform

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or your channel isn't demonetized or delisted or

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whatever may happen.

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But it also allows you to distribute to

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more

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than one platform.

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So I think today, what we wanna do

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is talk a little bit about some of

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the technical stuff and content preparation.

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We don't wanna get too deep into this

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there's, you know, really a couple of ways

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to skin a cat here when it comes

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to doing,

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video podcast. Personally, you know, I do a

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live show

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and that live show turns into

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video podcast. Some people do something that's prerecorded

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and then edited.

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So, again, it'll depend on

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your methodology

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of recording. But in the end,

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you you are gonna need a little more

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equipment

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to do a good video podcast. I will

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say this before we really get into this

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technicality.

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Audiences will forgive you for bad video, but

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they will not forgive you for bad audio.

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So long as you have the audio chain

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really kinda nailed,

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the video can be lagging a little bit

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in quality. But the way things are today,

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we wanna come up with the best product

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possible. You know, I worked for a TV

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station

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at one point, and,

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they had only four states of audio.

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Either it's on or it's not

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or it's humming

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or it's not. And they didn't really care

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that much. So, you know, if you notice

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on your local news, a lot of times

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the audio is a little bit flaky. So

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don't do that.

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You know, make sure your audio is decent.

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really,

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you should have a good camera. And in

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the camera can be a webcam,

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but make sure it's a good webcam.

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you have a Mac, you probably kind of

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pretty good camera built in, but, you know,

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field of view may be a little bit

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different.

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you know, on doing video, good camera, a

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microphone,

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and you're gonna need some lighting. You really,

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really are because

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the the shadows are not,

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becoming. You need some you need some light

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to fill in the shadows and,

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it's very, very important.

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on the editing

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side, there's a couple of options for it.

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I use Adobe Suite,

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but there is a whole host of video

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applications

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out there.

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you want the output, you know, once you've

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edited, if you're gonna edit it all. Sometimes

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people just cut the ends

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and let it fly. And or if you're

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doing live, the you know, you can just

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download that

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that file from whatever live platform

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in most cases. And, you know, there's not

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a lot of editing involved. But if you're

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gonna use a a video editor,

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you wanna make sure that it,

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that it will put out the right

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format.

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I think the key truly is as well

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when you're recording, having that original copy,

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locally

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is really, really key. Because if you rely

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the

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streamed video to download that, it may be

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quirky. So having that original

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copy stored locally,

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which much of the streaming software allow you

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to do to record locally, I think is

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important to have that,

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that master file to start with and and

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work from there. And, of course,

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hosting platform wise, choosing a hosting platform such

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as Blueberry that supports video files and can

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generate

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an RSS feed with a video file.

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Now the only challenge really here is video

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files are much larger

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than audio files. And to give you a

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comparison,

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you know, if I do an hour,

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at the encoding rate that I do, I

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end up with about a 70 meg file

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for audio. Whereas if I'm doing video

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and I encode that video down to,

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maybe twelve eighty, not do nineteen twenty by

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I end up with about a 900

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megabit file. So,

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video files are much longer. Yeah. They're much

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larger. You know, that's just the nature of

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the beast. You know, you're sending a lot

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more information.

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is a little more portable than video. Yeah.

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It's easier. Yeah. Yeah.

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also when you're doing videos, make sure you,

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you know, prepare your your, content. And, you

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know, unless you're doing an off the cuff

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live thing with with guests or whatever. But,

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prepare an outline or some sort of

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script. I mean, I would you know, I

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wouldn't do, you know, strict scripts because it

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always sounds like somebody's reading, you know, unless

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you're really good at it.

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it somewhat organized. And then, of course,

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consistency, you know, making a regular schedule, especially

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if you're gonna record live,

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you know, being there at the time you

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normally are there once a week or however

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often you're doing it,

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can definitely build that

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live audience. But, as far as distributing it

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as as a podcast, you know, do it,

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you know, on a particular day,

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of the week. I know, you know, your

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shows, Todd, you know, you have a pretty

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strict schedule by the day.

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You know, when you put out your episodes,

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what is it, Mondays and Thursdays or something

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like that? Yeah. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday for the

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three shows I do. Yeah. Right. Right. And,

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you know, people know that, that's gonna happen.

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And, you know, when they're live,

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you know, you know, maybe you're not as

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strict with the live schedule, but,

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you know, but you're you're on that day

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or on the day that, you record. I

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was gonna just talk about the content preparation

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as far as that that preparation.

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Mhmm. If you're doing video, you will become

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a better podcaster

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because it's much, much harder to edit

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video than it is to edit audio.

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prepared to be prepare I prepare more

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doing video than I do audio.

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doing audio for the last couple of weeks,

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and I don't have to prepare as much,

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to do the show than I do when

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I do videos. So my production time is

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just because the preparation is more because you

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got one shot at it and I particularly

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don't like editings. Yeah. In videos, you can

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tell and edit, well, you know, these jump

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cuts. You see you watch YouTube a lot.

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the YouTubers out there will, have jump cuts.

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and then, you know, you you keep seeing

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these edit points,

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some of them are really good at it

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and you can hardly tell, but,

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that's that's one thing

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makes you a better podcaster. And if you

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have more than one camera, it helps in

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the editing process too, but that requires a

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much, much bigger hardware commitment.

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And, of course, there's this target audience. Know

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your target audience and tailor the content to

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their interest.

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audio. And most importantly, when you're recording, don't

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forget that people are listening as well as

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watching. So you have to be very,

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very cognizant

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that,

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you know, that you're explaining things very, very,

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consistently, I guess. And the recording of video,

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you know, it's just like audio. You have

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to record in a, you know, you know,

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very quiet,

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space, but then you also have to think

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about, you know, it being well lit and,

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background noise, visual distractions. You know, you don't

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want the the kids running around in the

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background while you're trying to, you know, do

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a video.

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So, you know, just be

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a little more cognizant about your your space

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where you're gonna be recording.

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to lock the office door because invariably, they

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would come in and, you know, tap me

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on the shoulder and wanna talk while I

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was live. So,

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you know, they all During COVID when everything,

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you know, went to the home, you know,

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there'd be some news broadcast and then somebody's

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kid walking

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on the on the the reporter or whatever.

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it's fun to leave it in there. But,

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you know, just be careful with your environment.

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quiet and distraction free as possible.

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hard to cut that out. It's easy to

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cut out an audio. Another thing you wanna

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do is test your equipment. You know, I've

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this has caught me by surprise a few

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times. I've clicked the button and nothing happened,

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out of memory or, you know, something got

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misconfigured.

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doing video and settings before

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to avoid technical issues and

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more avoid the most important part is always

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have a backup recording to prevent data loss.

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I I record to two sources

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at all times and,

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even then I maybe sometimes have forgot to

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hit second record device,

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because it'll happen to every one of us.

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We will lose an interview,

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because we forgot to record or something went

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sideways, something got corrupted.

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So it's always good to have a backup

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recording,

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strategy if you can implement it. Yeah. I

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use a checklist as well, you know, kinda

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like for flying.

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I have a checklist, and I'll make sure

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the recording on, make sure the backup recording's

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on, make sure I, I put the lights

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on or, you know, just just a little

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checklist that you could run through just to

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make sure

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before you start recording

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that you've,

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crossed all your t's and dotted all your

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i's.

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And, always, again, have a backup.

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And postproduction,

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now this, you

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know,

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you could do as little or as as

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much as you want just like with audio,

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but,

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just just know that,

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removing mistakes and unwanted sections and all that

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stuff will be more noticeable in video.

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It, can be more challenging. And if you're

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gonna do an audio version of your video,

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this is one thing that I screwed up

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when I started doing a video show along

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with an audio show,

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is I would edit the audio and then

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I go, oh, jeez. It doesn't really sync

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with the video. So edit your video version

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and then extract the audio out of that

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so that they're both the same if that's

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what you're going One thing that you wanna

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do is, you know, if you're gonna be

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doing videos, you're gonna wanna have,

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branding, lower thirds.

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You're gonna have some elements to make it,

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look professional depending on, of course, your setting.

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So, you know, that maybe require you to

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use, some popular software out there

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to be able to do that automatically

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or add it in post.

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But, having video is important to, to do

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that. Right. And then, of course, you know,

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just like, with audio, you wanna have transcripts,

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especially on video because you're you're more likely

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on a video podcast

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to get, hearing impaired people

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or people that are listening in loud environments

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and, just having the transcripts available with closed

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captioning, which a lot of apps will do.

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Apple and,

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in most of the podcast apps on index

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will do that if you provide the transcript.

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So definitely,

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think about that.

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Distribution, again,

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if you want a true video podcast,

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you can do it via Blueberry's RSS feed

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or or in PowerPress.

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So, you know, again, it's no different than

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an audio file. It's just a video file

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and you link the video file versus link

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in the audio file.

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That's really the

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the the ease of this. And then, of

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course, submitting your feed to various podcast

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platforms. Apple Podcast supports video. Podcast index does

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as well.

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Video is not used on as many platforms

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as audio is,

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but we'll have we'll have a list of

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those in

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the show notes.

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And of course, there's a secondary distribution you

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can upload to YouTube, Facebook, x and other

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social media,

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platforms as well. And that's a beauty about

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it as well. You can cross post the

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video

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into other,

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other

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platforms.

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And make sure you always optimize the episode

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titles, descriptions, and tags for better

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discoverability to get that SEO bounce. You know,

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marketing a a video podcast

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is roughly the same as marketing anything else,

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but, you know, make sure you you post

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it, or, you know, post a link to

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it anyway on social media, email, newsletters,

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collaborations,

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with other podcasters to promote it or YouTubers

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or whatever.

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And make sure you engage with your audience.

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You know, watch your comments, especially on social

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media and and all that. And, you know,

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keep it,

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surveys and feedback are good. But, you know,

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just

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if someone comments about it, you know, acknowledge

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them and that, that'll definitely make a superfan

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out of people. And, of course, then there's

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the marketing part.

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You know, you would do the same type

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of marketing you're doing for audio as you

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would for video,

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social media, email newsletters, and collaborations to promote

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your podcast.

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And, of course, you wanna engage with your

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audience as well

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and monitor analytics, understand viewer behavior, and improve

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future episodes.

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Do a comparison

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for your audio versus video.

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I think that will give you an indication.

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My show, it's kinda it's kinda split like

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seventy thirty. 70%

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listen, 30%

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watch.

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So you kinda develop that over time if

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you've added a video component to an audio

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podcast.

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Of course, there's the same legal things except

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for you're adding a visual component. So make

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sure you have the rights to all the

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content used, you know, including music, images,

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videos, whatever.

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You know, make sure it's okay for you

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to use that in your video podcast.

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Of course. You know, you're gonna need a

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little more storage for video files. Hey. You

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have to have some backups.

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As always, keep your software and equipment updated

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and, be open to feedback and willing to

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make changes to improve

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your podcast.

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Adding a video component can be very exciting,

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but also I always add a word of

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caution.

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There is a significant

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time

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commitment to add

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the video component,

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probably for

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myself personally, which I've been doing video for

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many years,

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it probably adds about forty five minutes to

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my total production time. A lot of very

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efficient.

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Yeah. I'm very efficient.

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But

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if you think about,

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having a the video podcast part of it

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is relatively

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simple.

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But because I'm live streaming to YouTube,

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then I have to go back to YouTube

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and I have to do art for YouTube.

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I have to do a new description. I

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have to new a new title.

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I've gotta optimize it for YouTube

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whereas

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my audio podcast, the show notes, episode title,

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all that stays the same. So it's kind

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of a one and done because I can

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do both the audio and video in a

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single post. So there's not that much additional

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time

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besides the time to upload the media file,

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which depending on your Internet speed could take

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a little bit longer.

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So I think that's the consideration.

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If you're just gonna do purely a video

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podcast with RSS,

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probably the additional production time isn't too long.

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But the majority of folks that are considering

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adding video

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is gonna wanna have that video on Rumble,

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on Twitch, on

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Twitter, on or x whatever we're calling it

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now on YouTube, you're gonna wanna have those

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multiple distribution points. So in order to do

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that, that's multiple posts that you have to

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make,

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in in that distribution to get it out

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there.

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Video is a little more manual

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than audio. That's the that's the key. You

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know, you you've if you wanna be on

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YouTube with video, you have to upload it

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to YouTube. But, you can distribute it via

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RSS as well and and, you know, just

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use those other places as secondary,

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distribution points. Yep.

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Well, that covers it. Again, we've supported video

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from day one. Video has been a thing

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in podcasting since day one.

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A lot of people think it's new, but,

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it's not. It's just being talked about a

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lot more lately. Yes. I agree. So if

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you want more information on video podcasting, I'm

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happy to talk to you. I'm Todd at

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Blueberry. Of course, that information is at the

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end of the show as well.

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I've been doing it for a long time

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and,

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really know the the plus and minuses of

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this.

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And I guess my biggest, you know, my

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biggest

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piece of advice to you is if you're

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going to invest into NVIDIA,

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you have to consider to have a video

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strategy

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on top of having an audio podcast strategy.

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It just they're two different two different animals.

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Alright. We'll catch you guys next week.

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Thanks for joining us. Come back next week.

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