On this episode of the Audience podcast, Matt talks with Arielle Nissenblatt about building a community around your podcast. There are so many great takeaways from this episode, from community engagement to building an audience, podcasting habits to monetization. Arielle lends her expertise in answering Matt’s questions about podcasting and Twitter.
Arielle is a podcast expert in every sense of the word. She founded the EarBuds Podcast Collective in 2017, a podcast recommendation engine which sends a themed newsletter (including five podcast episodes centered around that theme) each week. She has also been the emcee for the Outlier Podcast Festival, attended the Salt Institute in Portland, ME for documentary studies, and has worked with podcast industry leaders to establish the Podcast Taxonomy system. The Podcast Taxonomy system aims to systematize roles for audio and podcast production.
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Today you’ll learn about:
Mental investments to building community
Where to house your community
Questions to ask to establish what your audience and peers want
Beta testers as community members
Where is your audience most active?
Getting through the overhead of customers that know nothing about podcasting
Engaging and gripping content
Monetization and independent creators
Arielle’s podcasting and Twitter habits
Resources/Links:
Arielle Nissenblatt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arithisandthat?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Arielle Nissenblatt’s website: https://www.ariellenissenblatt.com/
Castos Academy: https://academy.castos.com/
Castos, private podcast: htt
