Buzzsprout Weekly

Send a question for 'Ask Megan' Hey, Podcasters! A few months ago, Jordan needed to pitch a talk for Podcast Movement. There was just one problem: the deadline was coming up fast, and she was having trouble narrowing down what she wanted to talk about. So she went back to her podcast, Buzzcast. Jordan uploaded years of transcripts to ChatGPT and asked it to find the topics she kept coming back to. And it came back with a lot to work with! One idea jumped out from an old episode about ge...

Send a question for 'Ask Megan' Hey, Podcasters! We spend a lot of time thinking about how to grow our podcasts. But after a year of hosting Podcasting Q&A, Cara realized her podcast had been growing something else: her confidence. Before taking over the show, Cara was used to being given a task and completing it. Now, she was responsible for writing, recording, editing, publishing, and figuring out what the show should become. A year later, she noticed that confidence following her...

Send a question for 'Ask Megan' Hey, Podcasters! Jeremy Gendelman had the recordings for ​Yasha​ sitting in a drawer for almost ten years. He'd recorded his grandfather telling the story of fleeing across the Soviet Union during the Nazi invasion of World War II. At the time, Jeremy was mostly a curious grandson with an old camcorder. He had no idea what he'd captured! Years later, after his grandfather passed away, Jeremy listened again. This time, he heard a podcast. "I have his...

Send a question for 'Ask Megan' Hey, Podcasters! Lately, I’ve noticed how much content is starting to sound the same. It's technically good, but so much of what we consume is optimized and often AI-assisted to the point where you can almost tell what the next sentence will be. And it got me wondering: Is the same thing happening to podcasts? On this week's episode of Buzzcast, the team talks about “podcast blanding” and the pressure to look at what's working for others and slowly make y...

Send a question for 'Ask Megan' Hey Podcasters! Most podcasts have a host, producer, researcher, writer, and editor. On ​Tiger Talk​, those jobs belong to fourth and fifth graders! The podcast is produced by EAST students at John Tyson Elementary School of Innovation in Arkansas, and when teacher Jennifer Boogaart says it’s student-led, she really means it. The students choose each season’s theme, research stories, write scripts, invite guests, create their intro music, run the equipment, con...