The TRUTH About Video Podcasting – Watch Before You Start a Video Podcast

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1. Hey Pat! Loved the tips. This definitely gets us thinking about how to better utilize our podcast for YouTube. We’ve thought about creating a separate channel for the podcast (Learn Spanish and Go), but sharing some video clips with select guests might be the better option on our main channel. Cheers! -Jim

   1. A separate channel could work for the full version. Thomas Frank does this for his main show, it won’t hurt but it’s an additional channel to pay attention to and manage which could add up to more time that could potentially be spent elsewhere.

   2. @@patflynn Thanks for the reply! I dig Thomas’s work. I’ll have to check out his podcast channel for inspiration.

   3. Spanish speaking Podcaster here! Let me know if you would be interested in collaborating! Cheers
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   4. Hey @@emanuelsanchez4715! Cool! Feel free to shoot us an email. I’d love to hear about where you’re from and what your podcast is about. We can see if it’d be a good fit. spanishandgo dot com slash contact. ¡Un saludo desde Puerto Rico! -Jim

2. Dude…. my friends and I carry a 4 host sports Podcast with a little over 20 episodes this time being. We want to start uploading content to Youtube and this video just really hit me in the face. People are probably not going to sit around for a 50-minute video of 4 random Dominican dudes talking about sports, but they may sit around for the best 10 minutes where we really put our debating hats on. Thanks a lot Pat!

3. Thank you!! This is EXACTLY what I’ve been wanting to know about for a while now. I have a YouTube channel and want to start a podcast. I just couldn’t fit the puzzle together as to how to do a video podcast that’s optimized for both platforms. And you solved it!!

   1. No problem! Best of luck to you! 👊🏼

   2. @@patflynn Thanks! By the way, question for you: When would you recommend I release the podcast and video clips? Would I release them all at once, or roll them out slowly? And if the latter would I do podcast then video clips to promote it or video clips as a teaser ahead of time? PS: I’m fine to wait if you make a video with the answer 🙂

   3. @@kipper6092 i hope Pat responds to this

   4. @@kipper6092 great questions!!! following!

   5. @@kipper6092 Clips are great to release leading up to the episodes.

4. You the man Pat!! I launched my audio pod in 2016 with your YouTube tutorial and I’m back for micro clipping!

5. We’ve been recording a monthly podcast for few years now. In 2020 we experimented with live-streaming it. And while that was fun, we saw three things that made us stop and focus on audio only.
   1. We did not attract many live viewers.
   2. Those who watched live could ask questions and it was probably more fun for them, but for the rest (listening to recording) would suffer.
   3. Number of view the video later got was also low.
   It’s points you also say, it’s interesting to see how we came to similar conclusions.
   I like the idea with 3-5min bits, might try that, thanks!

6. man .. great stuff… I’m a first timer and i am doing both from start 🙂 … had a chat yesterday w a friend about those small segments to use a promos on YouTube and now listening to you it reassures we are on the right path … our podcast is over 1hr long and yes, we notice listen/views are under 20mins each … your stuff helps… Thanks !!!

7. Wow, yet another brilliant, digestible how-not-to-waste your time and money from easily the best resource for anyone wanting to podcast. Thanks for the generosity, Pat!

8. Billy Diamond here of Billy Diamond’s Branding For Entertainers Podcast. Thank you Pat! Going into 2021 my goal was to start adding video podcasting in addition to my audio podcast. You cleared up and answered a lot of my questions. You are always the best. I plan to start simply by adding clips from my audio episodes and filming at the same time I record a guest. I believe too that more leverage can be had by pulling out a topic and using the video as small bites to onboard listeners and subscribers. You reinforced my original thought on this and I appreciate it. Side note…. your encouragement and help to start my audio podcast is why I do it now —- THANKS Pat!

9. Starting to offer a video version of my podcast episodes after about 5 years of only doing audio is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It ended up doubling my listeners, both due to adding new forms of discoverability on YouTube, but also because some people just prefer to watch video and will *only* tune in if there is a video version. So it is kind of a no-brainer if you want to double your audience.

   1. @The Fat Actors Podcast You gotta invest in some decent microphones as early as you can, because you can never go back and redo that audio if it wasn’t captured with good quality from the start.

   2. Did you do the whole episode or clips?

   3. @@amiemadeit I put out the entire episode

   4. @@TheAstrologyPodcast Thank you! Much less editing! 🙂

   5. @@TheAstrologyPodcast
      Fun question of the day – do you know why Astrology is not studied in Universities?
      Because it’s considered by the science community as a Pseudoscience.

10. Hey Pat! Your original video tutorial on “how to podcast” is where I learned. We are now one of the top podcasts here in Canada! Love this idea of micro-content! Thanks for all you do Pat!

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11. Thank you so much Pat! As always, you’ve saved me time, money, and a lot of frustration. After 61 episodes of the Derate The Hate podcast, I am just starting to gain some traction and build my audience. I am wanting to do more on YouTube and was about to do exactly what you said will do damage to the channel. I will be working on putting together the snips of interviews rather than the whole things. Thanks again, you’re the best. So grateful for what you’re doing!!

12. This is some extremely solid advice

13. So call me weird but I exclusively listen to podcasts on YouTube. I hate spotify and refuse to use apple products. Most of the time I am only listening yes but I like to see who is talking. What they look like, their body language and so on. That’s not say that I will sit down and watch a whole podcast start to finish but it’s nice to be able to glance over at it at any point and see what’s going on as well as hear it.

14. Thanks Pat! I recently started the “Explore the Everyday” podcast with a friend of mine and we had discussed adding a video element. Now I understand why we shouldn’t just upload the full episode! I think we are going to think about uploading short segments to grab viewers’ attention and link back to the full length audio podcast.

15. Pat, your advice and tutorials are absolutely priceless. Whilst listening to your video, i was in other tabs, which i guess follows on from the point you were making. I agree, it’s not my favourite thing when i have to flip back to the tab or screen to see what someone is talking to camera about, and it can be annoying. I’m not really a TV, film, or video watcher, and much prefer audio, as I can get on with other things whilst listening, or as is often the case, I listen as I wind down the day in bed. Sage advice from you got me started with The Family Histories Podcast, and I’ve been enjoying charting these last couple of weeks in Apple Podcasts ‘Top Charts’ for History in UK, Canada, and Australia. Thank you for everything in 2021, and I wish you health and happiness through 2022.

16. Hey Pat just discovered you today and love the information that you provide for beginner podcasters! A buddy and I have started our own podcast (called Parent DisApproval if anyone is interested) and we are mainly an audio podcast, but we have video recorded every episode. We were going to drop entire episodes on YouTube but thanks to your advice I think we will end up dropping video segments. Appreciate all that you do!!

17. I am so happy your video that populated when I looked up video podcasting. I love the micro video idea. This information really helped alot. Thank you

18. I am a beginner, and just now gaining the courage that I’ve needed to actually start a podcast. I’ve had people telling me that I should do a vodcast (video podcast) because it’s more entertaining but I don’t have an audience to entertain and I wouldn’t know exactly where to start. But thanks to your video I am convinced that I am definitely more of an audio Podcaster lol

19. Thanks Pat. I started The Authentic Action Podcast a few years ago, and flopped a few times. I am getting ready to make another fresh start at the start of next year, and setting up a new plan and studio the next couple months. You remain a solid voice in the arena. I appreciate you!

20. Thank you so much for helping me understand video podcasting more! I am going to implement your ideas soon. I know this will make a huge difference in the way we get shared and recommended. You ROCK!

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