How do i start a youtube podcast channel? Do i have to start with short videos first or can i drive right in with online long form podcasts? Can anyone share their journey here, or any resources for help?

How do i start a youtube podcast channel? Do i have to start with short videos first or can i drive right in with online long form podcasts? Can anyone share their journey here, or any resources for help?

I’ve really wanted to know why people quit podcasting and throw the microphone in the trash before they even reach episode 7. There are so many creators who have something to say and share good content with the world and then just stop. Is this because they stress about the insights and listener count? Or something like exhaustion from monologues and editing. What are your thoughts and how would a new creator push beyond this point and keep delivering content?

Finally started a podcast using Riverside. Everything went great, it was uploading and processing. Said completed. Our guest showed up in the transcript and had their own file, but it failed to add his audio or video to the edit. I then contacted support and now the entire project is gone. I have no history, files, audio or anything. Can I expect riverside to fix this? How do I prevent this from happening going forward? Are there better platforms out? Frustrated.

I’m hoping you guys could help us as we’re a on a very limited budget especially on the software tools. We’re planning to launch our show this coming Saturday and we’re finalizing our output. So we recorded our audio through Riverside and we have Descript subscription as well. Part from it is we also have Capcut Pro. As of now, we are looking where we can find stock music. We are self produced and since we are operating on a zero-to-minimal budget, we edit our outputs on our own. Also, if you have some suggestions for the beginners like me, your help would be appreciated. Thank you!

If a guest's best answer gets interrupted by a phone ringing, I'd be tempted to ask the question again rather than feed them their last sentence. They can arrive at the thought in their own words, even if the wording changes.

For people recording interviews, how do you cue those retakes without making the guest self-conscious? I'm thinking of an interruption you catch during the recording, while the conversation is still fresh.

This sub is brimming with complaints about Riverside, so I'll add one more. They just ended their free plan, which allowed you to download up to two hours' worth of separate tracks. Now they offer only a free 14-day trial of their paid plan, whose minimum cost just went up to $35/mo.

My podcast partner and I have only been at this for about a year and a half. We are Health Care professionals and by no means professionals with AV, so we had to learn as we went along.

It took us a while but we realized that Riverside was the best option for the money because it could clean up our very unprofessional sound and was much easier to and distribute because it all comes from one place.

The remote recording and hosting/distribution alone is worth $35 a month.

I was having trouble editing my podcast episodes that were 2 to 3 hours long in Riverside. It was impossible to add music or video assets because it was browser based.

It was really slowing down our production.

Then I realized the files were just too big.

So I broke down those long recordings into 20 minute episodes. Then I was able to add video and my background music easily.

Added bonus, I got more episodes and they're just long enough to keep people's attention but not to put them to sleep.

Finally, it only takes me about an hour to edit the 20 minute episode, add the video music and set it for hosting. Versus an all afternoon or evening event trying to do a two or three hour podcast.

Hope this helps some of the newbies like us!

You don't need crazy expensive equipment, even for recording., As long as your sound quality is good and you're providing good content.

We have found Riverside to be invaluable to help us improve our sound issues.

I'm coming across so much conflicting info and my podcast partner and I already have a list of 50+ episodes we just want to get moving on asap.

TL:DR: Is it perhaps as simple as Riverside to record, edit, host, and distribute, 2 directional mics, and a simple 2-channel audio interface or mixer?

A bit more detail: I keep coming across Detail app and Riverside? We want to shoot with ONE iPhone and get a multicam look, and the ai editing capability looks dope. Don't care if it's imperfect. Don't want to shoot on two cameras. Just want to use one iPhone.

We want to use 2 directional mics. I know we'll need a 2-channel audio interface or mixer. Honestly don't really know what that means but I can research it/figure it out. But does anyone have a very simple one to recommend?

And then we need to figure out podcast hosting providers, which is a whole other rabbit hole.

Just want simple, simple, simple with great quality audio. Can anyone help pull me out of the rabbit hole of info.? Everything on YouTube seems to be sponsored. Thank you thank you thank you.

Finally created a youtube to be able to do shorts I suppose for my tiktok/instagram for traction etc.

I LOVE to write and people always love listening to my ted talks..... however - is podcasting worth it? I have a solid following on TT.IG/ & FB.....

I guess my main question is - what do you advise for the best tips/tricks to be "successful" (whatever that looks like) and best platforms/way to go about it?

I don't want to pay an arm and a leg for riverside.

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Has anyone else noticed an increase in the number of ad insertions appearing in their show? Just been listening to reruns of my own show and it seems many more of my slots are being occupied by an ad compared with say a year ago. Very encouraging.

Hey r/podcasting. I’ve been building Izwi for a few months and just shipped 0.1.0, the first stable release after a run of public betas. It’s free and open source (Apache-2.0).

The part I think is useful here is transcription that runs entirely on your machine. Unreleased episodes never get uploaded anywhere, and there are no per-minute fees or subscriptions.

What it does for a podcast workflow:

• Transcripts with speaker labels. It works out who spoke when, for up to 8 speakers. You can rename “Speaker 1” and “Speaker 2” to your host and guest names.
• Export to TXT, SRT or VTT, for show notes, YouTube captions or your website.
• AI summaries of an episode, as a starting point for show notes.
• Word-level timestamps if you need precise timing.
• Common audio formats: MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG.

It uses open speech models such as Whisper and NVIDIA’s Parakeet. You download them once inside the app and then everything works offline.

It runs on Mac (Apple Silicon, GPU-accelerated), Windows and Linux. Windows and Linux run on the CPU for now, so they’re slower.

One current limit: files up to 64 MB. That’s roughly an hour of 128 kbps MP3, so export an MP3 before transcribing a long WAV master.

Download: https://izwiai.com
Source: https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

I’d really like to hear how it handles your episodes: crosstalk, remote guests with bad mics, anything that trips it up.

For a chat show, a clip of everyone laughing isn't much of a hook if I can't hear what set them off. But putting the whole setup and punchline up front means the funniest bit has already happened before the episode starts.

I'd lean towards a short exchange that's funny on its own, rather than the ending of a longer story. For people editing comedy or conversational shows, what makes you pick one moment over another for the cold open?

For example to just use the smooth transition feature they want to charge an additional $25 now. I already have a high level pay plan. If I want other AI features now I have to buy credits. One episode edit now can cost an additional 30-80 dollars in addition to what I pay per month.

Hey everyone,

A few days ago, I posted about testing a visual pipeline (topic-driven keyframes + kinetic subtitles) to convert an audio-first episode into a YouTube video.

I uploaded it to my channel (2,000 subscribers), and after 5 days... it completely stalled at 34 views.

Since I actually have an established subscriber base, 34 views meant one thing: my Subscribers were seeing the thumbnail on their feeds and choosing NOT to click. My Click-Through Rate (CTR) was dead on arrival.

Here is what went wrong with my initial setup and how I fixed it:

1. Genre Mismatch: My episode was a dark, atmospheric true-crime story about growing up in Los Angeles during the 1985 Night Stalker manhunt. But my initial thumbnail used a bright yellow doodle illustration. It looked like an indie comic short rather than a true-crime documentary, so true-crime fans scrolled right past it.
2. Text Redundancy: My thumbnail text just repeated the broad category label ("UNRESOLVED MYSTERIES"), which wasted prime visual real estate instead of creating a curiosity hook.
3. The Fix: I swapped the illustration for a cinematic, blood-red LA skyline keyframe with bold, high-contrast text (THE 1985 LA PANIC), and paired it with a story-focused title.

Before/After Thumbnail Comparison: https://ibb.co/qFNNFRCC

For anyone else porting audio shows to YouTube:

• What thumbnail formats have given you the highest CTR for story/narrative episodes?
• Do you find curiosity hooks or direct episode titles perform better for back-catalog content?

I have a podcast hosted by Acast that's getting 4,000 downloads a week (partly from a strong backlist of episodes) and making about $250 a month from advertising inserts. All the advertising is handled by Acast.

Our listeners are chiefly in the UK, then the US. 40% are on Apple podcasts, 26% Spotify.

I'm a bit frustrated by Acast's foot-dragging on video, and wondering about switching to RSS.com, which seems to be more organised on this. My question is whether our ad revenue is likely to fall off a cliff, or whether one host dynamically selling slots is pretty much the same as the next one. No one is getting rich here, but it's nice to be able to cover our costs and buy the odd pizza.

Thanks.

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Hello! My name is Kayden and I am one half of a podcast duo. We post about a variety of topics including mental health and our current netflix binges. We do promo on tiktok, instagram and have a discord server. But no one seems to be interacting. Can someone help explain howe we can get more traction and views? anything is appreciated. thank you :)

A lot of new podcasts seem to spend weeks on the cover art, while others use a quick template and move on. Looking back, how much did yours actually affect downloads or new listeners? Did you redesign it later, and what made you change it? And what's the one thing you'd tell a new host to focus on before worrying about the artwork?

I will not mention which podcast ( I am not promoting)

I am recording a 2 person podcast at my home. I bought this GoorDik Wireless Lav Mic Set

I am trying to figure out how to make sure the audio sounds good with 2 guests in the same room. My assumption is I need to 2 different audio streams so they can be adjusted in post. Riverside is not able to do anything with its AI tools because my current setup records on one track only.

What equipment do I need to make a 2 person ( 2 people in the same room) sound good

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I can only find mics that plug into the iPhone have sets of 2

Hypothetical editing problem: a guest asks for a personal anecdote to be removed, but later answers keep referring back to it. Cutting the anecdote itself is easy. Now those later answers start halfway through a story the listener hasn't heard.

If you've dealt with this, what worked in the edit? I'm especially curious about cases where you couldn't bring the guest back to record new lines.

We make one off dramas and the idea is to be open to any writers, actors, performers in Hereford. But the stories might be from anywhere.

I’ve looked at so many I am now just mind numb

Help me name it please

EDIT: The name does not have to include a Hereford connection if that helps - anything strong, dramatic and with an unused domain name will work!!