
This is very smooth and friendly on the ears. We do this while recording by watching our timer and verbally closing the current topic and ending the episode. Effective splittingĪre You Just Watching?™, one of our other podcasts on the Noodle.mx Network, is recorded approximately monthly, but each main episode is split into two parts. The more frequently you update your site, the more Google will love you and the easier it can be to build a faithful audience. It's all right if you record that much content, but break it up into smaller episodes to make it easier on your listeners.

If a subscribe goes on a one-week vacation, they'll return to five hours of that show's content, which can be very hard for catching up.īut on the opposite side, a monthly podcast should not necessarily be a two- or four-hour-long episode. Unless you have an extremely loyal following, releasing one-hour episodes every day (under the same podcast, that is) seems overkill. The length of each episode greatly depends on your frequency. Once you've picked your frequency, then your can choose your optimal episode length. A weekly format seems the most popular and easiest to hold with consistency. Subscribe to any monthly podcast, such as Children's Ministry Monthly, and you'll see that episodes are not released on a consistent schedule.įirst determine how timely your content must be, and then set a schedule and try to stick with it. Some podcasts are biweekly, while others are even monthly. Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing actually podcasts twice a day, because their information depends on what happens overnight before the business day, as well as what happens within the business day.

The late GeekBrief followed this format and did very well. Or maybe you want to be among the first to talk about the latest tech news.

Cliff Ravenscraft's Weekly Lost Podcast followed this format.

But have you also considered a semiweekly (two a week) episode? Perhaps an initial-reactions episode immediately after the TV show airs, and then a later, more thought-out episode with feedback. If you talk about a weekly TV show, then it's probably obvious that you should have a weekly podcast. How frequently should you podcast?ĭetermining how often your podcast (your frequency) is very dependent upon your content. I have a lot of emails and voicemails to go through I promise to respond to them all, but it's taking a little while to sort them out. I share some tips on determining the right balance for your podcast.Īudacity tip: how to switch playback and recording devices within Audacity. Subscribe to enough podcasts and you'll see lengths from thirty seconds to two hours and frequencies from multiple times a day to once a month.
