Make your show really shine
Use Anchor’s feedback and stats to boost your podcast’s popularity
This is the third and final part of our series on starting a podcast using Anchor for iPad. If you’ve followed the first two parts, you’ll have edited and published at least one episode, and hopefully have ideas for more. Now it’s time to grow your following by seeing what improvements/tweaks you can make. This author’s podcast, The Outpost Show, has a running theme of interviewing guests about their iPad usage, but also includes ‘break’ episodes featuring composers and journalists from the games industry. The show also ran a special episode with three guests on to discuss Apple’s media event in October. See how much you can mix things up within the constraints of your show; this will keep things fresh and may attract new listeners.
Listen to your listeners
In addition, try to get some feedback about your show. If several of your more vocal listeners express that a certain topic has run its course, move on in future episodes.
If someone thinks you say ‘erm’ and ‘but’ more times than usual, that’s also useful feedback, because it means that you can watch out for these when interviewing someone and try to improve your notes, your speaking style, or both. If you need help with sounding confident, try out the subscriptionbased app Astound (bit.ly/mfastound).