Spreaker Live Show #82 for Sept 21st, 2016

Our Topics This Week:
- How Finding Podcasting Listening and Creation Simplicity
- Pump Up the Volume Levels
- International Podcast Day is Coming Sept 30th
- Gail Nobles Storytelling Podcast
- Rob's Interview on Michael O’Neal’s Solopreneur Hour show

Show Duration: 40 minutes

Host: Rob Greenlee, Head of Content, Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)spreaker(dotcom)
Co-Host: Alex Exum, Spreaker Host of "The Exum Experience" and the "Spreaker Studio Review" shows at @AlexExum

We had some feedback:

From Gail Nobles: Hi Rob! I just wanted to let you know that some of my friends have heard my podcast on Facebook. They have told me face to face that they loved my stories and think that I should keep doing them. The word is starting to spread around a little about my podcasts. Sharing with people you
know at work or places you go helps a lot too. I've been experimenting with sounds and changing the pitch of my voice to add my own characters. Sometimes it's good to have someone other than yourself in your podcast. Different sounds really help a lot and gets the audience attention. I just wanted to let you know my experience.

Here are the stories my friends have been listening to. Here is a clip from Gail’s show

Actors, Stories, & Film (Lounge Show)
https://www.spreaker.com/show/actors-and-film-lounge-show

I am still uncertain about what else to do. I thought about sharing them with iTunes but I don't know whether or not people there would be interested in listening or not. As bad as Google Plus is, there are
people there that listen and love music. I thought about giving Google Play a try. I thought about the affiliate programs, and ads but those things never seem to work for me. There are so many people on the
internet, and I can't believe how pitiful the views can be sometimes on content. So I'm still thinking what I should do. Thank you for listening.

Spreaker Blog at http://Blog.Spreaker.com – Articles and Spreaker News

Spreaker News:
- International Podcast Day is Coming Sept 30th at http://InternationalPodcastDay.com
- Spreaker is a Gold sponsor of the event again this year
- Rob Greenlee will be hosting an hour of the LIVE 24 hour celebratory video stream on FireTalk.com at Noon PST
- Booked guest so far are Rob Cesternino, Host of “Rob Has A Podcast”, Ken Rutkowski, very early pioneer in online audio shows/podcasting - KenRadio, CNET Radio, Now Host “Business Rockstars Radio Show” and other podcasting celebrities

Rob was also guest on the Michael O’Neal’s Solopreneur Hour Podcast this week: https://solopreneurhour.com/podcast/474-rob-greenlee-of-spreaker-podcasting-before-podcasting-was-a-thing/
He got me talking about things I don’t normally talking about online: marketing, my far past history, podcasting precursors or platforms that were doing closed podcasting.

Our Tip of the Week: “Pump Up the Volume Levels”

- Do Your volume levels really matters to your listener as they listen on noisy trains, cars, airplanes
- Make sure your mic input levels are tested with headphones, before recording.
- Skype guest levels can be very different from host levels
- I recommend a Free tool called “Levelator” and was designed to level and give a volume boost to entire .wav file recording
- Free Download: http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

Let’s Dive into our main topic this week “Finding Podcasting Listening and Creation Simplicity”

- Based on article up live on the Spreaker Blog - http://blog.spreaker.com/2016/09/19/finding-podcastings-listening-simplicity/
- We have discussed some of this on a past episode, but wanted to expand on it
- Radio was built on Simplicity and having its listener captured in the car with nothing else to do, but listen to the radio
- On-Demand and in control digital media like podcasting has given you the listener the keys to control your audio experience in the car and other places ie. smartphones
With control comes time commitment and a responsibility to make content decisions that radio was doing for you.
- The “Simplicity” question, what can be simplified with podcast listening today and what does that mean in a full control type of platform?
- Think a move to more human compatible natural interfaces to digital media is the future - voice, vision and thought control.
- We have touch control, but that takes physical action and effort. That is the stage we are in now. Computers have been just smart enough and complex enough to often times be more difficult.
- Think Siri, Alexa/Echo, Cortana and Android’s voice control platform “Google Now”. This is the future of podcast usage, management.
- Did not say in the article, that apps and web or a combo of those will be important as well for discovery and management. I believe apps and web will merge into one experience in the next 3-5 years.

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