Here is the recording of a webinar that I did for Travelpayouts.com on how to create your own travel podcast. At the time of this recording I had: • created different 5 podcasts • published 1,800 podcast episodes which were downloaded more than 25 million times • won travel journalism awards for my podcasting including being named the "best independent travel journalist" by Travel+Leissure magazine https://chris2x.com/creating-your-own-podcast/

1. Unusual content: How to develop your
own podcast

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3. SpeakerSpeakerSpeaker
Unusual content: How to develop your own podcast
Chris
Christensen
CEO at AmateurTraveler

5. CHRIS
CHRISTENS

8. 2014
Tha
Thailand Foreign Ministry

9. WHAT’S A
PODCAST?

11. Why Podcast?

14. ENGLISH
DOMINATES

18. ENGLISH
DOMINATES

19. MY TOP
COUNTRIES

23. ATTENTION
z
ONE LISTENER TOLD ME SHE
DOWNLOADED 50 EPISODES
OF THE AMATEUR TRAVELER
TO PLAN A SINGLE TRIP TO
EUROPE.
TO PUT THAT IN
PERSPECTIVE THAT IS
ABOUT 7,000 WORDS PER
EPISODE OR 350,000 WORDS
THAT SHE LISTENED TO OR
ABOUT 4.5X THE SIZE OF
THE FIRST HARRY POTTER
BOOK

25. PODCAST
STYLES

26. MONOLOGUE

27. TEXT
SETUP
COMPUTER MICROPHONE GARAGEBAND
AUDACITY

28. REMOTE
INTERVIEWS /

29. TEXT
HOST SETUP
COMPUTER
SKYPE
CALL RECORDER / HOT RECORDER
MICROPHONE GARAGEBAND
AUDACITY

30. TEXT
GUEST SETUP
COMPUTER
SKYPE MICROPHONE
OR
SMART PHONE
EAR BUDS
SKYPE

31. IN PERSON INTERVIEWS /
CO-HOSTED

32. TEXT
SETUP
MICROPHONES
HEADSETS
MIXER
COMPUTER
DIGITAL
RECORDER
OR

33. .
Portable Mixer

34. IN PERSON FIELD
INTERVIEWS

35. TEXT
SETUP
SMART PHONE
MICROPHONE
DIGITAL
RECORDER
OR

36. ROUNDTABLE

37. USB Microphone (Blue Yeti)

38. HOSTING

39. HOSTING
QUESTIONS• How easy is to leave?
• How reliable?
• Do they sell ads?
• How trustworthy?

40. HOSTING
HOSTING

41. EDITING

42. Myth - Podcasting is Hard

43. Myth - The Perfect Podcast
Length

44. “7 Podcasting Best Practices” (cision.com)
As evidence of the popularity of podcasts, consider these facts:
There are over 115,000 podcasts in existence.
32 million people listen to podcasts monthly.
The average podcast lasts about 30 minutes.
Users listen to about 22 minutes per podcast.
Users prefer podcasts that last less than 16 minutes.
The average commute time in the U.S. is 25 minutes

45. Reality - 84% of shows with >100,000 downloads per
episode are >51 minutes in length.

46. But some shows are short

47. iTunes Top 200 Episodes - 7/7/18
8.6% - 22 Mins or shorter
62% - 44 Mins or longer
9.6% - 120 Mins or longer

48. Myth - Podcast means Ad
Supported

49. Myth - If you build it… they will come

53. Median: 50% - 145
Top 20% >1,200
Top 10% >3,300
Top 7.2% >5,000
Top 5% >8,000
Top 2% - >19,000
Top 1% - >33,000
downloads per
episode in the 1st
30 days

54. <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="Amateur Traveler | Travel Destinations"
href=“http://amtravmp3.wm.wizzard.tv/rss">

55. iTunes as a search engine

56. Chris is a nerd. When he is not working on computers, he is
playing on computers. He somehow thinks writing his own portal
for bloggers is not at all weird.
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Chris
Christensen
HEADSHOT

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