James Cridland:
Hello.
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My name is james cridland I'm,
the editor of pod news and today
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i'm going to give you a tip all
about writing a daily podcast
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So my name is James Cridland.
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I'm the editor of pod news, which is
a free daily newsletter, all about
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podcasting and on demand in there are
jobs and news about the industry and
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events about the industry and all of that.
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Um, it comes out every single day in
podcast form, but also as a newsletter and
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you can subscribe for free at pod news.
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net.
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I got into podcasting
a long, long time ago.
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Um, in fact, in 2005, very early 2005,
I was working for a radio station in
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London in the UK uh, called Virgin Radio.
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And we were playing around with
what new technology could offer.
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And I spotted this
thing called podcasting.
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It wasn't even an Apple by that point.
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And I thought, well, that
would be interesting.
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So we worked out a way of producing
an automated podcast from our
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breakfast show with Pete and Jeff.
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And that started in March of 2005.
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Uh, I think the press release
also included the word.
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Podvertising, which is
possibly a bad plan.
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Anyway, you're free to
use that if you wish.
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And I've been involved in
podcasting really ever since
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and started pod news in 2017.
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One of the things I love about
podcasting is the fact that it's open.
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Anyone can podcast and you can be
right next in the podcast players.
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You can be right next to Joe Rogan.
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You can be right next to the news agents.
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You can be right next to
all manner of very large.
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Shows, and then it's just
you in your spare room.
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And that's absolutely cool.
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The wonder of podcasting is that
you don't have to convince a
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commissioner to take your idea on.
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Uh, you don't have to convince, you
know, all manner of people to, you
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know, buy your idea and put it on their
radio station or on their channel.
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So the fact that podcasting is open
is a fantastic thing and allows.
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Such a different amount of
voices on the air than you
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would get from any other media.
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So my big tip about particularly
about making a daily podcast, cause
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I'm foolish enough to make a daily
podcast is to get your workflow right.
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You do in your podcast, just make
it easy, straightforward, help you,
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basically plan a podcast, work out what
the easiest way of doing something is
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so that you don't end up working really
hard on something that frankly, not that
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many people are going to hear initially.
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So just make it a simple and
straightforward to put something together.
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As you possibly can.
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The reason why you'll find the pod
news daily podcast in your podcast
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app, is purely because of workflow.
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I needed to read out my newsletter
every single day, because if you read
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it out, then you find more errors.
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Uh, and I thought, well, I'm reading
out this newsletter every single day.
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I might as well record it.
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What's the worst that can happen there.
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And so actually it's all
built in to the workflow.
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So just have a look at every single thing.
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Can you automate that?
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Can you make that simpler?
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Can you make that easier to do?
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Because that will keep
you podcasting for longer.
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You can find me at pod news.
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net.
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That's the daily newsletter
that I put together.
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It's free as well.
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And you can also find my
personal website at james.
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cridland.
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net, where you'll also find links
in the show notes and thank you
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for listening to podcasting people.
