Appendix B: Resources A-Z: Helpful Tips & Articles
PODCAST RESOURCES
Ways to Find Podcasts (Beyond Apps)
- Podcast Guide is a community podcast directory that is episode-first so you can find new podcasts based on content, including ratings and comments.
- Trailer Park: The Podcast Trailer Podcast
- New Podcast Trailers, from the creators of The PodNews daily newsletter, which also has new podcasts.
- Podcast The Newsletter (Weekly recommendations on a variety of podcasts)
- Earbuds Podcast Collective (5 podcasts on a theme curated by someone new)
- Find That Pod (5 recommendations each week, archive)
- Radio Ink (Daily headlines and news about new podcasts)
- Podcast Guide (Community search engine for podcasts)
- Your Next Podcast (Podcast that recommends a new podcast)
- Podcast The Newsletter (Weekly recommendations on a variety of podcasts)
- Earbuds Podcast Collective (5 podcasts on a theme curated by someone new)
- Find That Pod (5 recommendations each week, archive)
- Radio Ink (Daily headlines and news about new podcasts)
- Podcast Guide (Community search engine for podcasts)
- Your Next Podcast (Podcast that recommends a new podcast)
- Podnews (Global news about podcasting including new and continuing podcasts)
Podcast Competitions for Students:
- NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge for middle and high schoolers; signup for newsletter; 2022 winner.
- The College Podcast Challenge runs from September-December, 2023; the 2022 winner and honorable mentions for 2022.
Best Podcasts of 2023
APPLE: Most popular Podcasts of 2023; Top New Show; Most Followed Shows
SPOTIFY: Best Podcasts of 2023 (Variety)
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Best Podcasts of 2023
TIME: Best Podcasts of 2023
VULTURE: Best Podcasts of 2023
THE NEW YORKER: Best Podcasts of 2023
ESQUIRE: Best Podcasts of 2023
Selected How-To Videos/Audio
- Best Podcasting Setups (video 7:59 from Riversidefm)
- Short videos from The Podcast Host on a variety of topics from tech to names to interviewing; How to create attention-getting podcast artwork (video 23:24), How to name your podcast episodes for SEO & grab eyeballs (10:20 video), How to upload a podcast to any directory (video 22:28) Microphone Polar Patterns (video 16:26), Podcast Promotion (video 44:48)
- Podcasting 2022 Year in Review (video 14:00 from Buzzsprout)
- How to do a podcast (podcast audio 32:17 from Latina to Latina EP Juleyk Lantigua-Williams).
- Three tips for training your voice (video 9:12 from NPR).
- Everything you need to know about music in your podcast (audio 8:00 from NPR)
- Squadcast YouTube Channel has short videos on a variety of topics; as well as longer webinars on topics such as Show Notes: The simple template to match your podcast findable (59:00), Understanding echo in remote recording and how to avoid it (7:05).
Diversity, Ethnicity & Race in Podcasting
- Urban One launched a podcast network for BIPOC Audiences.
- BIPOC Podcast Creators is a paid directory for freelancers and small businesses who provide services of Black, Indigenous, and POC who provide services in audio and podcasting “all of whom have been vetted by the BIPOC Podcast Creators Team.”
- Curated list of 300+ Asian American Podcasts for AAPI Heritage Month, Podnews.
- Podcast Academy and BIPOC Podcast Creators 2023 Spring Mentorship Program (Jan. 20. 2023 deadline).
- POC in Audio Directory, is a database of people of color who work in audio worldwide, to help employers and facilitate advice, and mentorships.
- Podluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective features the Asian American community.
- Sound Up is Spotify’s program operating in 12 countries to help aspiring podcasters in underrepresented communities get their feet and mics in the door.
- Spotify’s Elevate for Podcasters program empowers professional podcasters with disabilities, providing the funding, mentorship, equipment, and accommodations they need to level up their careers.
- Spotify’s The Creator Equity Fund showcases creators who have been historically underrepresented in the audio industry.
- The Black Podcasters Association is for creatives and professionals redefining the podcast landscape.
- The Africa Podcast Fund, is Spotify’s first-of-its-kind initiative to support burgeoning podcasters through financial grants, workshops, and networking opportunities.
- WOC (Women of Color Podcasters) is a community to connect podcasters, audio creators, and professionals to share resources.
Black History Month Podcasts
- The Soul of Music, 7-part series droped every Tuesday through Feb. 28, 2023 by National Geographic in celebration of Black History month.
- Black, History-Making Podcasts and Podcasters, EarBuds Podcast List.
- iHeart Radio Curated Collection.
- Honoring Martin Luther King Day – six podcasts to listen to (NPR)
Selected Articles of Interest
Advertising & Promotion:
- 5 Free Marking Tools from Resonate Recordings.
- 7 Tips for Effective Blog/Podcast Cards, The Audacity to Podcast.
- 8 Easy Ways To Promote Your Show by Podcast Business Insider.
- 16 Ways to Promote Your Podcast, Pod Reacher.
- How to Find (& Keep) Podcast Sponsors; How to Get Your Podcast on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, How to Make Money with a Podcast, Patreon for Podcasters: Best Practices, The Podcast Host.
- Podcast Marketing: 50 podcasters share the tactics they used to grow their shows, Buzzsprout.
- Seven Solutions for the Podcasting Brand Challenge from Coleman Insights Media Research.
- Ten Agency Pros Share Their Best Podcast Advertising Tips, Forbes.
- The Social Podcast Success Metrics by Jonathan Crowel.
- Tips on promotion and building your audience from Lower Street.
Business-related podcasts & unusual producing partners:
- JAG in Detroit is a company that creates, produces, edits and syndicates podcasts for businesses and nonprofits.
- Masters in Business looks at people and ideas that shape markets, investing and business.
- The Journal, a daily podcast “about money, business, and power” from The Wall Street Journal and Gimlet audio.
- Private Podcast, a service by Podbean providing audio and video content for membership organizations, employee communications, training.
Education:
- 8 Student-Made Podcasts That Made Us Smile by NPR; Student Podcast Challenge for grades 5-12.
- 18 Best Podcasts for Kids in Elementary, Middle and High School by WeAreTeachers.com
- 50 Of The Best Podcasts for High School Students by TeachThought Staff.
- A Universe of Podcasts: A Summer Listening Guide for Elementary, Middle and High School Students by School Library Journal.
- Best College & High School Podcasts by PlayerFM.
- Educate Podcast from APM Reports.
- Great Podcast Episodes for Students and Teachers by Common Sense Education.
Employment:
- Podjobs.net, jobs in podcasting from Podnews.
- Hotpod News has classifieds .
- How Much Are Audio Producers Making? Medium, created by Alex Laughlin.
- Our Top Negotiation Resources, Bossed Up.
- POC in Audio Directory is a database of people of color who work in audio worldwide designed to help employers and facilitate advice, mentorships.
Fiction Podcasts:
- 10 Best Fiction Podcasts You Should Totally Get Sucked Into, The Manual.
- How to Write a Fiction Podcast, Electric Lit.
- How to Make a Fiction Podcast, The Podcast Host Academy.
- Sound Storytelling: The Art of Making a Fiction Podcast, A Sound Effect.
- Script Writing for Narrative Podcasts, Learning Solutions.
- The OnWriting Guide to Crafting Scripted Podcasts by the Writers Guild of America, East.
- Tricks of the Trade: Writing for Audio Fiction offers tips from writers from the Austin Film Festival.
- Why Characters and Storyline Aren’t Just For Fiction Podcasts, The Podcast Host.
Gaming:
- Rooster Teeth Podcast covers the latest trends of games.
- What’s Good Games, in-depth conversations about games new and old with three female friends.
Gender, Sexuality:
- QP-The Queer Public Podcast, Wonder Media Network.
- Top 20 LGBT Podcasts, Feedspot blog.
Health:
- When Life Gives You Parkinson’s is a podcast that discusses life with the disease.
History:
- Sidedoor is a podcast series by the Smithsonian exploring the vaults with the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers and astrophysicists.
- This American President explores the lives and legacies of the men who have occupied the White House.
Income:
- AIR is the Association of Independents in Radio is a network of audio industry professionals – podcasters, journalists, story editors, audio producers, documentarians, engineers, sound designers, and media entrepreneurs across 47 states and 30 countries. They publish a Code of Fair Practices for working with audio professionals as well as AIR Rate Guides for services.
International:
- Japan: A Podcasting Deep Dive, by Guang Jin YEO, appearing in Podnews.
- Arab World Develops High Interest In Podcasting, Modern Ghana.
- China’s Podcast King, South China Morning Post.
- El Washington Post, a Spanish-language podcast by The Washington Post that will explore the top stories shaping the world.
- Global Story Network is a home for storytelling from across the world.
- Listín Diario, a newspaper from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, has launched two new podcasts.
- Most popular podcasts in South Korea (in Korean).
- Podcasting in France, Linda Fall.
- Podcasts in Peru from Ludik
- Sobre Podcasting, a new Spanish language show about podcasting from a “less U.S.-centric point of view” from Libsyn.
- The Chinese “Podcast” Industry Isn’t Really Podcasting As Americans Know It, Nieman Lab.
- The Rise of Arabic Podcasts: “A digital revival of a long-term tradition,” The National.
- YPod is a list of podcasts in the Welsh-language, from Podnews.
Legal resources:
- Center For Media & Social Impact, American University.
- Fair use, Stanford University.
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Science and Technology:
- Apollo 11 podcast series from CNN.
- Radio Lab from WNYC Studios makes science accessible by weaving stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries.