Libsyn has partnered with AdvertiseCast to launch Libsyn Auto Ads, allowing any Libsyn-hosted podcast to monetize with programmatic ads in your podcast!



Libsyn's website will let you indicate how many ad spots you want for each episode, and choose the precise placement for each spot.



To ensure the ads are appropriate for your podcast, Libsyn will let you block certain categories (such as alcohol or politics) to avoid having those inserted in your podcast. And you're very likely to get ads because Libsyn's fill rate averages 75%.



You can expect to earn around $10 per thousand downloads (CPM) for each ad after the revenue split with Libsyn.



Host and monetize your podcast with Libsyn!



Use promo code “NOODLE” to get the rest of the month and all of next month free!



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Zencastr makes it easy to get high-quality, multi-ender audio and video podcast recordings with your guests and cohosts. Now, they've added multiple features to help you edit and monetize your podcast!



If you want to monetize your podcast, you can join Zencastr's Creator Network to get competitively priced advertising opportunities for your podcast, as well as helping you grow your audience.



Editing is now easier with Zencastr, too! With simple, single-click operations to reduce long pauses and remove “ums” and “uhs.”



These options come at no additional cost!



Try recording, editing, and monetizing your podcast with Zencastr!

With experience in professional film and TV writing, Podcast Studio Pro has been built specifically for the planning and organization needs of podcasters.



Instead of trying to hack together different document or collaboration tools for podcasting, Podcast Studio Pro provides you and your cohosts (or even other team members) an optimized way to plan your episode flow, collect and organize topics and notes, collaborate in real time, and more!



Podcast Studio Pro is built on a card model, letting you easily reorganize the flow of your podcast, either before you record or even in real time while you're recording.



You can start from scratch or create and use templates to aid your workflow. And you can share global access with others, or even only certain episodes.



You can easily export in multiple formats, in card view or a linear document.



Try planning your podcast better with Podcast Studio Pro!



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I think Buzzsprout is the easiest-to-use podcast-hosting provider, and now they've made monetizing easy, too! Plus, you can use this to grow your own podcast!



Buzzsprout Ads uses dynamic content-insertion to place ads on all your podcast episodes that you want. Instead of having to find and mark the right spots to insert ads, Buzzsprout uses artificial intelligence to find the best spots for you!



While programmatical ads typically pay under $10 per thousand downloads (“CPM”), Buzzsprout ads charge $20 CPM to the advertiser, and you—the podcaster—get $14 (70%)!



But don't worry about getting ads without your knowledge or that are inappropriate for your podcast! Every ad opportunity from Buzzsprout can be approved or declined as you wish, letting you hear the ad and learn more about the ad before you approve it!



And if you're more interested in growing your podcast, you can buy promo spots through Buzzsprout Ads to promote your own podcast—even if you don't host with Buzzsprout! But Buzzsprout customers save 30% when they buy promo spots for their Buzzsprout-hosted podcasts.



If you want to grow your podcast or grow your wallet, try Buzzsprout Ads!



Learn more about monetizing or promoting your podcast through Buzzsprout!



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One of the best ways to grow your business is to be a guest on the right podcasts. Interview Connections works with business owners and entrepreneurs (with or without their own podcasts) to get booked on other shows to get visibility in front of their target audiences.



Interview Connections is ideal for you if you already know who your ideal audience is and you already have your pricing set. This is usually the best fit if your business is already reaching 6 figures or more per year. The team will help you find the right podcasts with the right audience to fit with your unique growth strategy.



The investment in this service starts at $2,500/month with different levels of guaranteed guest appearances per month. I specifically said “investment” because for many of the clients Interview Connections has served, they've seen many times that in returns—sometimes even from only a single guest appearance!



Learn more about Interview Connections for your business!



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I've recommended Focusrite's audio interfaces for years, but they always required a little hacking to make them work for podcasting. But the new Vocaster One and Vocaster Two offer the same quality but in a new product designed for podcasters!



Vocaster automatically sets your gain (with up to 70 dB of clean gain!) for each connected mic with a very simple and fast setup.



You can connect Vocaster to your computer, mobile devices, or cameras for recording. There's also the option for loopback so any sounds you play on your computer will loop back to your computer for recording or streaming. It can also easily connect to an additional device via Bluetooth (Vocaster Two) or TRRS for remote guests/cohosts or live-streaming.



And each input is its own separate track—even the computer sounds! So you get all the versatility to edit your recording as you wish!



The Vocaster One supports 1 microphone input, 1 headphone output, and connects to mobile devices via TRRS. Vocaster Two has 2 mic inputs, 2 headphone outputs, TRRS, and Bluetooth.



Learn more about Focusrite Vocaster!



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Ecamm Live is easy software for live-streaming from your Mac. And it's now even better!



You can now stream to multiple destinations simultaneously (like Facebook Live, YouTube Live, custom RTMP, and more) and even bring those separate comments onto the screen so your entire audience can see them.



For more advance productions, Ecamm Live now offers separate isolated video recordings of each source/participant, giving you a lot of control to edit your final video to your liking!



You can even generate a link for anyone else to join into your stream—no additional software needed!



I've used Ecamm Live for years and I've loved their simplicity and quality!



Learn more and try Ecamm Live for your live-streaming!



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Blubrry is my top podcast-hosting provider for seamless integration with WordPress. This year, they released four great new features to help you podcast better!



Automatic media kits



Using the audience survey data you can collect through your Blubrry account, Blubrry now automatically populates a media kit for your podcast. It updates every 24 hours with your latest stats and information. You get control over what demographics and podcast statistics you include.



Education resources from PodRocket



Confused about podcasting? Blubrry has partnered with PodRocket to give you access to several resources to help you start, grow, improve, and monetize your podcast!



Dynamically inserted programmatic advertising



Easily monetize your back-catalog of episodes and future episodes with ads that will be dynamically inserted at the beginning (preroll) or end (postroll) of your podcast. This allows you to earn money from your podcast without having to read ads yourself or make any decisions after your initial setup. There's no minimum audience size (but do consider whether it's worth it for your audience).



In this initial phase, the most controversially or potentially offensive ads have been removed. A future phase will give you more control over what categories of ads you want to allow.



Website podcast player with closed captions



The embeddable podcast player exclusive to Blubrry hosting customers now offers real-time closed captions! This provides huge accessibility improvements! You can provide your own transcript or pay only $10/month to have transcripts automatically generated (with the same limits as your hosting account).



The transcripts are also included in your RSS feed using the new Podcasting 2.0 specification so they'll be usable in modern, Podcasting-2.0-compliant apps.



Learn more about hosting your podcast with Blubrry!



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Podcasting guesting is powerful for podcasters and guests! Interview Valet helps both!



Interview Valet is a podcast-interview marketing service, helping thought-leaders build their brand and business on targeted podcast interviews. They focus on helping you get results!



They primarily serve podcasts in the following three categories: business, faith & spirituality, and health & wellness.



For the podcaster, Interview Valet can help you get certified, high-quality guests for your podcast.



Learn more about Interview Valet to be a guest or get better guests!



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The most impressive thing I saw at Podcast Movement 2022 was Nomono's Sound Capsule. This replaces multiple pieces of audio equipment and processing software to capture high-quality audio with great simplicity.



The Sound Capsule comes with four wireless microphones, which record into separate tracks. The smart hardware and software processing reduces the crossover audio between the microphones.



The base station is wireless, too, and can connect to a wifi network for effortless uploading immediately after recording. The base station even has its own microphone array for capturing spatial audio or even ambient sound for noise-reduction.



While the anticipated price is high at about $3,000 (USD), it's replacing nearly that much in hardware and software. So if you frequently need a fully portable, straightforward, quick option, this could be a perfect match for you!



Learn more about Nomono Sound Capsule and be notified when it will be available!

Descript made editing podcast audio as easy as editing a document. Now, they've made editing video just as easy!



The feature is called “Storyboard.” It lets you edit your videos with the same familiar tools as you get with editing text: like select, cut, copy, and paste.



Descript also includes features to improve the audio quality of your audio or video episodes, even reducing noise!



And all these new features are included in the same pricing as before!



Edit your audio or video podcast with Descript!

I've become a fan of how artificial intelligence (AI) can help you podcast better. While I highly recommend Jasper for AI-assisted writing, Jasper isn't designed to serve the unique needs of podcasters.



That's where Capsho comes in! Capsho is an “AI-powered podcast copywriter.”



You start by uploading your podcast audio file. Capsho automatically generates a full transcript and then uses that to build several other pieces of text you can use for that podcast episode:



* Title* Description* Blog post* YouTube description* Show notes* Promotional email* Social-media captions



This is so much better than mere transcripts and it takes only about ten minutes!



Try Capsho for your podcast with a free trial!

SquadCast's version 2 brings new support for recording podcasts through a wider range of browsers and even mobile devices! Plus, there's a new, more accessible pricing option, allowing you to pay only $5 per hour of recording.



Learn more and record with SquadCast!



Thanks to Zach Moreno for joining me in this video!



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

Audiograms help you promote your podcast and engage your audience. Headliner is bringing automatic audiogram creation to smartly find and create clips straight from your podcast as you publish episodes.



Learn more and try Headliner



Thanks to Nicholas Abouhamad for joining me in this video!



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

Cloud Microphones makes the best in-line mic preamp boosters, and now they have a new podcast to geek out over microphones and audio!



Learn more and get Cloudlifter preamps



Subscribe to The Mic Locker on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.



Thanks to Rodger Cloud for joining me in this video!



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

Focusrite makes my favorite USB audio interfaces. The new 3rd-generation Scarlett models bring improved audio quality with new preamps and more gain, audio enhancement, USB loopback, USB-C connectivity, and more!



Learn more and get Scarlett audio interfaces



Thanks to John DiNicola for joining me in this video!



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

Libsyn is the #1 commercial podcast hosting provider and is bringing new updates! Their podcast download stats are now IAB-certified. Plus, Libsyn is sponsoring a new podcast about podcast in Spanish, called Sobre Podcasting.



Learn more and host your podcast with Libsyn*



*Use promo code “noodle” to get podcast hosting free for the rest of this month and all of next month!



Thanks to Rob Greenlee (newly hired by Libsyn) for joining me in this video!



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

Do you have a great idea for a podcast but need help to get it going and promoted? Spreaker Prime, by Voxnest, can help for podcasts with only 5,000 downloads per month! (Yes, that is downloads per month, not per episode.) Plus, there will be even more opportunities soon with Bloom.



Learn more and apply for Spreaker Prime!



Thanks to Ivey Amburgey for joining me in this video.



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

It takes a lot of guts—audacity!—to podcast. But sometimes, we get and get so focused on the process without ever actually podcasting. Stop Procrastination offers personalized and one-on-one training, plus actionable worksheets and more to help you stop procrastinating and start taking action!



Learn more and Stop Podcrastination!



Thanks to Gene Monterastelli for joining me in this video and sharing some extra inspiration!



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.

Carrying podcasting gear is rough on the equipment and everything has the potential add weight and bulk. CEntrance has updated MicPort Pro 2 and MixerFace R4 with better preamps, rechargeable battery, and analog limiters.



Learn more and get MicPort Pro 2



Learn more and get MixerFace R4



Watch all my video interviews from Podcast Movement 2019, and click here to see the gear I used.