Introduction To Podcasting

Introduction To Podcasting An introduction to Podcasting Artlinks Podcasting Day – Monday March 1st, 2010 Visit LovePodcasting.com after the course

Objectives
What is a podcast?
How do they work?
What can they do for you?
Creating and releasing a podcast.
Promoting your podcast.

What Is A Podcast?
Wikipedia defines a podcast as “a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication.”
Podcast (term) derived from combination of iPod + Broadcast

Important Ingredients
Your podcast – audio or video
Your website – own site, or podcast host
Your RSS feed – for syndication. This contains details on where users can find your podcast and subscribe for latest episodes.

How Do They Work?
Prepare your podcast file (MP3 audio or video)
Upload to podcast site
User subscribes to your Podcast RSS feed
User downloads latest version of podcast via site or iTunes to listen anywhere they like.

Benefits Of Podcasting
Podcasts can be provided free to download
Not restricted to any kind of schedule
Your programme content, your way
Access anytime, anywhere
Great promotional / educational tool

What You Will Need To Podcast
Show material – original material, audio from an event, video interview etc.
Computer, microphone or video camera
Finished audio or video file
Somewhere to host your podcast (delivery)

Podcast Delivery
Delivering your podcast
You upload & publish your podcast file
Your RSS feed gets updated
Listener (subscriber) automatically gets the latest episode of your podcast.

Your Podcast File
Audio or video format
The greater the quality, the larger the file
The longer the podcast, the larger the file
Typically, 20 minutes spoken-word audio = 20mb in 128k MP3 format (basic CD quality)
MP3 created from ProTools / Audacity etc.

Podcast RSS Feed
RSS = Really Simple Syndication
XML format document (i.e. Contains certain tags and instructions on your podcast).
e.g. Show name, author, episode number, date, where your audio or video file is stored.
Most hosts generate this for you.

Podcast RSS Feed
Wordpress one of the best platforms you can use for audio podcasting.
Tools like PodPress, Blubrry PowerPress can be added to Wordpress to distribute your podcast. These are used by Kilkenny Arts Festival, Playlist Mix, Devious Theatre, Kilkenny Music and thousands more...

Hosting Your Podcasting
Podbean.com
Basic account is free
Advanced account $4.95 per month
Organises your iTunes listing and RSS feeds
Basic account is limited to 100mb (approx 5 x 20 minute podcasts, audio only)
Mixed reviews on availability and downtime
Limited podcast stats, no scheduling

Hosting Your Podcast
LibSyn.com
Liberated Syndication
Demo account available: Username sandbox, password sandbox
Starts at $5 per month
Space available 50mb per month
Good for entry level users
No statistics at beginner level.

Hosting Your Podcast
Self host with Wordpress
Must have web space available to you e.g. Blacknight hosting from €50 per year
Install Wordpress (Free)
Install PodPress (Free)
10gb disk space, 100gb bandwidth per month
Allows full control over your podcasts
Allows full statistics
Takes time to set up, worth your investment.

Submit To iTunes
Most popular podcast aggregator
You must have your RSS feed URL e.g. lovepodcast.com/?feed=podcast
Must have iTunes installed on computer
Visit http://short.ie/itunespodcast

Submit To iTunes
Unauthorized copyrighted material, erotica, illegal solicitations, and hate speech are prohibited in the iTunes Store.
Podcasts with no episodes will be removed. Podcasts with no recent episodes can remain in iTunes but may disappear from some areas.
Itunes won't list private podcasts

Promote Your Podcast
Podshow (Podshow.com / Mevio.com)
Podcast Alley (PodcastAlley.com)
Podcast Pickle (PodcastPickle.com)

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Introduction To Podcasting

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