This episode is the first in a new series that I'm going to be doing from time to time, and I'm calling it the "You Oughta Know" series. (And if that instantly makes you think of the Alanis Morissette song, then we should be friends.)
Inside this series, I'm going to share some updates that have been going on recently in the podcast industry and just some things that I think you oughta know about. So today, I'm running through some important updates about YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and Apple Podcasts that I think are relevant to all podcasters.
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Sara Whittaker 0:01
believe it was last September:
I talked all about this in last week's episode and went into detail about it. That was episode 165 so I'm not going to go into detail about it again here, but if you want to listen, and if you haven't, I highly suggest that you do, because it it is a big change, and it did have a big impact, and it's still having a big impact on a lot of shows. So definitely head back and listen to last week's episode 165 if you have not already done that, but another apple update that happened several months ago that you may or may not know about is that there are now transcripts on Apple podcasts. So when you are in the Apple podcast app and you are listening to an episode, a transcript is now available, which is awesome for accessibility and so a big point that I wanted to make today. Is to make sure that you're letting your listeners know about this feature. This would be a cool thing to announce on your podcast and just say, Hey, I just wanted to let you know. I know a lot of you, you like to sometimes take notes, or you like to read certain information versus listening to it. Well, now there are transcripts available, and that could even be an opportunity to encourage them to share with their friends. Maybe they have friends who don't necessarily listen to podcasts all the time, but now they have this written content that they can check out. So far from what I've seen, I've actually been really impressed with the transcripts. I think that they have been fairly accurate, and that's really, really cool to see. If you are a podcaster and you're not seeing your transcripts show up, you may need to log into your apple podcast Connect account, because you might not have agreed to the terms and change your settings within Apple podcast connect so if you're not seeing transcripts pop up, you're going to want to log into your apple podcast Connect account. Go to availability on the left go to transcripts, and then there you'll choose whether you want apple to generate your transcripts for you, or if you want to provide your own. You can choose that option, and then, in that case, you would upload the transcript to your host when you go to schedule your episodes, and also the first time that you log in. If you haven't done this already, there's like a little agreement that you just have to read through and agree to before Apple will generate transcripts for you. And then if you want to view your transcripts for your specific episodes again, you would log into Apple podcast, connect, click on your show, and then there's going to be a purple tab at the top, top right of your screen that you can toggle to episodes, and then you can click on your episodes there, and you can edit or download the transcripts by episode. So if you see, like, some big mistakes in your transcripts, I think this could especially occur, like, if you have a guest name or or something like that, that's that's really misspelled, you can and you wanted to edit them, you can go in and edit the transcript. Apple does say that the transcripts will be the most accurate if your audio quality is good. And you can include the host and guest names in the show and episode descriptions to ensure accurate spelling of these names in the Apple transcript. And then one more quick Apple update that just recently came out is that Apple podcast is now available on web browsers on any device, so before only Apple users could access Apple podcasts, and now anybody can have the full Apple podcast experience. So on any browser, you can sign in with your Apple account, and you can access your library of podcasts, get recommendations and notifications and all of that. And even if you don't have an Apple account, you can still listen to all of the free podcasts, browse the top charts and all of that good stuff. I was hoping that with this update, they would allow people who don't have an Apple account to leave reviews on Apple podcasts. I don't think that's the case yet. Maybe that will be something that they add in the future, but as of right now, you do need an apple login to be able to review a podcast. I'll be interested to see if this change really makes people who are usually not Apple users listen on Apple podcasts. My gut tells me that if people don't listen on Apple podcasts, they probably have their preferred app that they listen in on, but I don't know. Time will tell. We'll see All right. So there you have it. Our first episode in this new you ought to know series. If you do like this style of episode and you like getting these updates and you want me to do more of these ongoing you have to let me know. So you can send me a message on Instagram. You can write it in a review on Apple podcasts, whatever method works for you, but definitely let me know if you'd like to hear more of this style of episodes. And then, of course, before we go, let's do a quick what I'm loving and what I'm listening to. This is where I share something that I'm loving and something that I'm listening to. Sometimes it's related to business and podcasting, and sometimes it's not so something that I am loving right now, and honestly, that I've always loved since I started using it, is click up, especially with being out on maternity leave. I don't think I could have done it without clickup. It's where my team and I keep track of all of the details of producing our clients episodes every single week, all of the little tasks that go with that, being able to set due dates for everything. So many automations I'm learning about, and I've now implementing that save. Me so much time every single week, and of course, also for the production of my own show, from brainstorming episodes to booking guests to producing the episode, keeping track of all of my ideas. I mean, I honestly don't know where I would be without clickup. If you have been thinking about using clickup, or you maybe have clickup, but you feel like you're not really using it to its full potential. I highly recommend getting Casey ackerman's confidence and clickup. Course, I bought this when I first started using clickup. The great thing about this is that it comes with access to her Facebook group. Well, there's lots of great things about it, like the fact that it's going to teach you how to use your clickup. But an added bonus is her Facebook group. She's super active in there and great at answering your questions, like, if you're trying to figure out how to set up an automation, or you're trying to figure out how to best set something up and click up, you can post it in the group, and you'll get some really great feedback. Casey's also been on the podcast before. I will link her course as well as the episode that she was on, so that you can take a listen to that, and you can check out everything that clickup has to offer. And then something that I'm listening to right now is part of your world. By Abby Jimenez, I read one of her other books called just for the summer earlier this summer, and I really loved it. I don't know, especially in the summertime, I just like some kind of, you know, light hearted kind of books, and these have been really great. So I read just for the summer. It was the first book that I read by Abby Jimenez, I think. And I was listening to a Q A with her after the story was over, and learned that some of the characters in that book were actually overlapping characters from a previous book that she had written, called part of your world. And so I decided to check that out. I'm almost done with it, and I've really enjoyed it. So if you like those kind of cheesy romance, lighthearted, fun books, definitely check out just for the summer and part of your world, I would read part of your world first, since that's the book that actually came first, and then you can follow it up with just for the summer. And I've actually listened to these on Spotify. I usually listen to my books on audible, but I was out of credits, and so before my renewal came up, I decided to check out Spotify, because you can listen to books on there. Now I don't, I don't know if you guys know that or not. It's something that I just learned about a couple months ago, and it's been great. I've really enjoyed listening on there. So now I'm kind of listening on Audible and Spotify all the places. But definitely check that out if you haven't already. When I signed up for I was on the free Spotify account. At first, you have to be on the paid version, so I signed up for the paid version, but they give you, I think it was like three months free that you get to kind of try it out. So I will put those titles in the show notes as well. But as always, thanks so much for being here, and I'll catch you here next week. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode. To keep this conversation going, connect with me on Instagram at podcasting for educators. I'm always looking for an excuse to talk about podcasting. If you're looking for support in launching, managing or growing your podcast, check out my online course, the podcasting for educators prep school. At podcasting for educators.com/prep school. I'll see you here next time you.
