How to Get Podcast Sponsors: 3 Methods

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Get Podcast Sponsors

Podchaser

Most podcasters don’t start their shows with the sole purpose of making money. They do it to have fun with friends, explore a new creative outlet, or to create a community of like-minded individuals.

But at the same time, if you are putting hours of work into a project every week, it’s nice to get paid for your efforts. The most popular way to make money podcasting is through corporate sponsorship. Podcast advertising has become a colossal industry, with advertisers spending over a billion dollars every year.

In this article we’ll dive deeper into how you can get podcast sponsors to earn your share of those billions, plus a few more methods you can use to make money podcasting. Read More

Article originally written by Taylor Kalsey published on Podchaser.

Community Hot Take
The Podfather

Castopod

In the summer of 2020, Adam Curry and Dave Jones co-created PodcastIndex, a free, open directory that now has more than 4 million podcasts (the Apple directory has 2 million), and launched the “Podcast 2.0” movement to add new features to podcasts. We had a little chat last month.

Benjamin Bellamy: Hello Adam and Dave, could you tell us a little bit about yourselves?

Adam Curry: I have always been interested in communications and technology. From very early on, from pirate radio stations, building my own transmitters, later finding “online services”, and eventually the internet. It was probably in 1989 that someone showed me how he could stream a song from his computer in San Francisco to my computer. At that point, I thought: “Wow, this is the future of broadcasting”. So, I just ran a parallel life of technology along with broadcasting on the radio and on television, on Europa TV and MTV among others. In 1994, I left that broadcast career to find new ways to “broadcast”, and I started by building websites for big brands. Read More

Interview originally written by Benjamin Bellamy and published on Castopod

12 Steps to Social Media

Red Website Design

Here’s a few things on their list:

  • Research and know your audience

  • Pick your social platforms

  • Pick your KPIs

  • Write your social media playbook

Check out the entire infographic here!

Podcast Career Opportunities

🎤 🎧 Brad Walsh, is the creator and host of the Empowerography Podcast. Brad created this podcast in order to provide a platform that enables women’s voices to be heard and to share their stories/journeys and successes in business or life with the hopes of helping other women who may be dealing with or going through similar struggles.

Brad genuinely believes his passion and love for what he does radiates and shines through and that’s what sets ME apart. He is all about helping women feel empowered one episode at a time.

🎤 🎧 Hosted by Josie, Heavy Pages: A DIVORCE Journal was started to help women feel heard, comforted and connected to others going though any phase of the separation and divorce process.

Josie opens up her journal to share about her personal journey.

 

🎤 🎧   Law Enforcement Today is a True Crime Show, a Law Enforcement Officer Show and a Human Interest show all in one.

Get a glimpse of life behind the badge, investigations of true crimes, violence they encounter and experience. Law enforcement officers, first responders, military veterans, victims of crime and their families tell their stories of the trauma they experienced mostly regarding True Crime incidents. They also talk about how they built their new lives they wanted afterwards.

While many people think the show is about Law Enforcement Training, or Law Enforcement specific topis, it is not, think of True Crime Podcasts with a twist.

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