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has anyone here seen or heard of anyone using podcasts for publicity? seems like theres a lot that could come out of this. A lot of the indie podcasts will play anything you send them. its free, worldwide, why not?
 
I acctually host a podcast, and we get alot of episode downloads (1000s per ep) and have many dedicated listeners. Though we've never done this, I assume that if we endorsed an artist, our listeners would give it a go if we asked them. It does have great potential, for any kind of marketing. ;)
 
I think podcasting is the future of marketing. I too host a podcast where I record a special alternate version of one of my songs that'll be on my debut albumt. For me personally, the response has been overwhelming. OK, it may not be 1000s of listeners but it's enough for me to be pleased...
 
My band was featured on 808Talk's Podcast almost a year ago with a demo we had given the guy. Hits to our website jumped exponentially, and we even had people come to the shows that had heard us on the podcast.

Last I checked, 808Talk was at #6 on podcast alley, and I believe the guy that does it told us he has around 35,000 subscribers........free advertisement to that level is AWESOME!
 
I love making a good graph and I combined my website hits and my podcast listeners and there is a definately correlation between the two. It's really quite facinating... And worth it...
 
Hey, I'm still trying to understand podcasting...Could someone please explain to me how a band could benefit from podcasting?

I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
 
i love that the stupid ipod craze managed to single handedly change the field of "online radio" to "podcast"
 
Trey, you are so right, I hate that word, so many people I know who are internet savvy don't listen to podcasts because they "don't own an iPod"

A podcast is an internet broadcast, RSS is useful for automated downloads and iPod's are one of many ways to play a show.

Songwritten, is that a serious question ? Would you say that getting played on the radio would be good for a band - of course it would. If you were played on my podcast (or many others) you would be exposed to 100's or 1000's of new listeners. Most podcasts also link to your site from their website which is something some random radio station would not do. Podcasts are usually worldwide, not local like most radio. Any new band should want to played anywhere, never mind if it's 10 listeners or 10 million.

Tony
 
scottfisher said:
I acctually host a podcast, and we get alot of episode downloads (1000s per ep) and have many dedicated listeners. Though we've never done this, I assume that if we endorsed an artist, our listeners would give it a go if we asked them. It does have great potential, for any kind of marketing. ;)
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What's your Podcast about scottfisher?

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Why couldn't this BBS (or the people in it) start its own podcast/inet radio broadcast(s) featuring different genres of music? It could also offer tips/tricks on home/live recording. You know, all the stuff we discuss here anyway.
 
HomeMadeHitShow said:
Trey, you are so right, I hate that word, so many people I know who are internet savvy don't listen to podcasts because they "don't own an iPod"

A podcast is an internet broadcast, RSS is useful for automated downloads and iPod's are one of many ways to play a show.

Songwritten, is that a serious question ? Would you say that getting played on the radio would be good for a band - of course it would. If you were played on my podcast (or many others) you would be exposed to 100's or 1000's of new listeners. Most podcasts also link to your site from their website which is something some random radio station would not do. Podcasts are usually worldwide, not local like most radio. Any new band should want to played anywhere, never mind if it's 10 listeners or 10 million.

Tony
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O no Tony, my question was serious. I've read a pretty good amount of stuff on podcasts but I really don't understand them yet. I was thinking of making one for my band...but I wouldn't even know what to do on it. I can't think of what would draw people to my band's specific podcast without offering something else. I do like the idea of making a bbs podcast though. I'd def. be interested in helping out in whatever way I could.

Thanks!
 
In my podcast, I record a song a week and tell people about that song. Each song I record is different to the actual finished album version. It's not doing too bad at all considering I'm an unknown...

I don't like the term podcast. Not everybody who owns an iPod listens to them, although I guess the majority do...

I like podcasts and the whole idea of them especially for music as you can deliver content straight to somebody without all the hassle of them going to a website reguarly to download etc.
 
Songwritten and Tamky

My podcast is exactly what you are describing. A show featuring home made music. I did/do intend to include recording tips but found them to be too boring too listen to, so now I just tell people how things are recorded. If someone sent in a question I'd try to answer it but myself I am no expert. I think that a show you had to listen to that talked about making music would not be interesting. However you can hear the home made music and email the maker to ask questions or hear about certain gear.

Songwritten, I'm up for help all the time. It takes time each week to do my show so help is appreciated, however I have no idea how you could help. You could definitely record the audio for a given show, I would send you a list of songs etc, and you could record it, might make a change from me doing it. Send me an email and we can talk about it.

Tony
 
This is an interesting thread, I got addicted to Liz Phair's podcast, but never really got what the whole deal is.

I suspect Podcasts are only going to grow bigger, sort of a power to the people thing.
 
It's more likely that podcasts will split into two. Those run by the big corporations and entities (NPR, BBC, Record Companies etc.) and the independents ranging from small to very popular. What I like is that I can find a number of shows featuring topics I'm interested in, they might only have 100 listeners but every one of those 100 loves the subject.

Tony
 
There are loads of podcast shows out there, very happy to play unsigned music.

It's worth doing, some of them are very grateful if you send them a copy of your CD or whatever and may even do a feature on you.

OK, so most of them probably don't have many listeners, but if you get your songs onto 10 podcasts who each have 20 listeners, then you've reached 200 people, more than some of us reach at a gig and a lot less hassle!

of course you do both, gig, and podcast, all good.
 
To expand on what glynb said the other factor is that most podcasts are focused on certain things, types of music etc. So you can be pretty sure that every listener, bet it 20, 200 or 2000 is a target for your music.

I estimate that my podcast has around 200 listeners. I am personally aware that 5 CD's have been sold based on songs played on my show. Not much but you should consider that most of my musicians don't have CD's, maybe other's were sold and that's 5 cd's that would not have been sold otherwise and most likely by people who don't sell that many CD's

Tony
 
How does one send music to the host of a podcast; just by sending them an e-mail?


How does one start a podcast of his/her own?
 
LI_Slim said:
How does one send music to the host of a podcast; just by sending them an e-mail?


How does one start a podcast of his/her own?
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odeo.com


seems pretty solid to me, i have one myself that i have yet to really use though. :D :cool:
 
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