<span id="docs-internal-guid-e785911e-6f72-79a1-66e3-fe96caa538fa"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Listening to, editing, or even knowing your podcast the way your users do is predicated on your ability to listen and fine tune it yourself first. Most computers should have onboard speakers or a headphone jack. However, if some of your audience will be utilizing better quality speakers and/or headphones than you, it would be prudent to at least match that quality through your editing and reviewing process. This will be the empathetic part of your process. Hearing your content in the same manor as the audience.</span></span>
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== Section 2: Content ==
== Section 3: Platform ==
Sample text<span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After you have your completed podcast, you’ll have to determine how you want to distribute it and which platform(s) will work best for you. There are a variety of platforms to choose from, each with their own benefits.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You should select your platform(s) based on:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your budget</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The subject of your podcast</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The size/demographic of your target audience</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are familiar with Wordpress, Blubrry might be the place for you. Similarly to Wordpress, Blubrry is a hosting company, although this one specializes in all things audio or video. Blubrry is capable of processing your high-data media files and will host and promote your podcast. A page for your podcast is easily established and maintained. However, the disadvantage of Blubrry</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is that it can be quite pricey, sometimes costing you $10/GB per month, which tends to be higher than average.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alternatively, you could make a Soundcloud, which has many of its own advantages. For one thing, the basic version which is still very good, is completely free and really simple to use. You can also upgrade to Soundcloud Pro or Pro Unlimited for a very fair price and acquire even more features and/or control over your podcast. An additional and extremely useful benefit of Soundcloud is that has an RSS Feed that enables you to pull your data to many apps or websites. This is also an easy way to go about adding your podcasts to huge platforms like iTunes or Android Music.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another option for you could be Stitcher Radio, which is essentially a curation platform. Think of it as Pandora Radio for podcasts; you select a topic and it generates a list of podcasts based on that, much like Pandora does with music. You can apply with Stitcher to become a content provider, or you can use the RSS Feed on your Soundcloud account to distribute it to Stitcher.</span></span> <br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-795a0de0-718b-5741-99df-a806fae20867"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Depending on the topic of your podcast, you can sometimes find popular websites that feature a similar subject or genre and that will let you post your podcast on their sites to gain a larger following. Similarly, you can sometimes partner with local radio stations. If they are interested in your content and it is somehow related to your community, you may be able to work out a deal where they host your podcast on their website once a week, and advertise it a few times throughout the rest of the week on air.</span></span>
== Creating a Podcast Series: The Roadmap ==
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Written by [[Keeyanakian|Keeyana Kian]], Char'nae Davis, and [[Brian Hensley|Brian Hensley]]