This week we talk about different ways to continue your education in relation to your podcasting endeavors – while sticking to a hobby podcaster budget. We’ll talk about a variety of ways that you can help yourself continue to grow as a podcaster, while still having fun.

In this week’s Better Podcasting Download, we talk about how there’s a new IAB certified podcast host.

In the Better Podback, we have a follow-up from a listener that sent us a How I Saved My Podcast story.

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This podcast was recorded on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 – Streamed Live to Geeks.Live.  Audio/Video Production by Stephen Jondrew of GonnaGeek Productions, proudly Canadian.

Main Topic: Preparing For A Podcast Year End in 2020

• Reasons why your purchase history may have been different
• How 2020 may have impacted your podcast growth
• Why it’s ok if you failed at this year’s podcast  goals
• How you can prepare for better goals for 2021
• Your 2020 holiday season may look entirely different
• You may not need a break this year
• You might need a longer break this year
• Podcasting through the holidays might be important for you

Better Podcasting Download: Rapid Fire News (See below)

Links Discussed:

• Anchor/Spotify Launched music in podcasts – our thoughts about shows with music
  • https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-10-14/spotify-launches-new-audio-experience-combining-music-and-talk-content/
  • https://open.spotify.com/genre/shows_with_music-page

  Google Assistant might support third party podcast players

  • https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/21/google-assistant-might-soon-support-third-party-podcast-services/

  Google Podcast Manager To Show Podcasters Search Results

  • https://twitter.com/googlewmc/status/1316030688508825600

  Google Podcasts is now the number 3 podcast Player via Libsyn stats (Only 1.91% though)

  • https://podnews.net/uploads/libsyn-stats-sep20.jpeg

  New Podcast:Transcript and Podcast:Locked tags

  • https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md

  Descript now has a video editor

  • https://www.descript.com/video-editing
  • https://blog.descript.com/introducing-descript-video-and-screen-recording/

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