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Gary never fails to inspire me with his words. I love how he is so passionate about everything he talks about which gets the listeners motivated and inspired. After this podcast, I was absolutely hooked to learn more about Gary and what makes him so passionate about wanting to come out and share his stories. I really enjoyed this program and listening through audio!
The audio news sector in the United States is split by modes of delivery: traditional terrestrial radio (AM/FM) and digital formats, such as online audio and podcasting. While terrestrial radio reaches a large portion of the U.S. population, online audio and podcasting audiences have grown over the last decade. And revenue for news radio stations dropped in 2020 after years of relative stability, but increased in 2021 and stayed the same in 2022. Explore the patterns and longitudinal data about audio and podcasting below. (Data on public radio beyond podcasting is available in a separate fact sheet.)
A decade ago, in 2013, just 12% of Americans 12 and older said they had listened to a podcast in the past month. In 2023, 31% of those 12 and older said they have listened to a podcast in the last week, up from 26% in 2022 and 7% when this was first measured in 2013. (The data in this chart, as well as in the subsequent chart about podcasts, is for all types of content and does not break out news programs.)
The average weekly unique users who download NPR podcasts, which include some of the most popular podcasts in the Apple Podcasts charts, such as Up First and Fresh Air, has declined from 10.6 million in 2020 to 8 million in 2023, according to data provided by NPR.
According to survey data from Edison Research, the share of the public listening to online audio has slightly increased in recent years. As of early 2023, 75% of Americans ages 12 and older have listened to online audio in the past month, while 70% have listened in the past week. After online audio listenership remained flat between 2019 and 2021, this increase marks the highest these figures have been since 2002 when data was first tracked.
In a perfect world, you could simply reach out to your guest and co-hosts, explain the situation, get everybody back together, solve the audio issues, and have another riveting conversation, this one even more spirited than the last.
Before you can make the decision to scrap or save this episode, you need to have an idea of how good you can manage to get the bad audio to sound. There are a number of things you can try to fix bad spoken word audio.
No matter what you decide to do with the bad audio you currently have on your hands, just remember that your next chance to impress your listener base will come with your next episode. Bounce back, learn from your mistakes, and prepare to do it all over again (but better) during the next recording. You listeners will be there, so make sure you show up too.
Matt Nadolny is a digital marketing specialist during the week and a podcaster on the weekends, known to his listeners as Tuesday Timp. He is the founder, producer, editor, and one of three co-hosts for the bi-weekly video game community podcast Go Mode: A Link to the Past Randomizer Podcast. Matt resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife, newborn daughter, and two cats.
Neil Rubenking came to the SF Zen Center in the seventies and had this interest in computers that benefitted the SFZC when hardly anyone knew anything about them and he sailed into a career with PC Magazine that continues to this day as their senior security analyst. He also worked for the CIA as a student summer job. Listen to this podcast and you'll learn more vital information about Neil and so forth.
Shosan Vicki Austin is a priest and teacher at the SF Zen Center whose reach has spread further due to her knowledge of ceremonies, meditation, and Iyengar Yoga. Her practice began in 1971 with a near death experience. She has studied and taught in America, India, Japan, and Australia where she became fascinated with the aboriginal ways . Listen to this podcast with her and find out what she has to say about all this - and more.
Jane Hirshfield is a renowned poet. She first came to the SF Zen Center, showing up at Tassajara in 1974 when I was head monk, a good day for us both. In this podcast she talks about her life as a poet, a Buddhist, a lover of life and this planet and all that is living. She reads from her recently published The Asking: New and Selected Poems (from fifty years of poetry).
Shamsul Bahari was born in Penang, Malaysia, and through a circuitous route through Dennis Kelly ended up at Green Gulch Farm. He's back in Penang now. Check him out in this podcast and at cheeseburgerbuddha.blogspot.com.
Therese Fitzgerald came to the SF Zen Center in 1976, was ordained as a priest by Richard Baker in 1986, with her husband Arnold Kotler founded the Community of Mindful Living applying the teachings of Thich Nhat Hahn who ordained her as a dharmacharya in 1994. She worked with Maxine Hong Kingston's Veterans Writing Group. Now Therese is a hospice chaplain in Maui where she and Arnie moved to long ago. There's more to her story you can hear about in this podcast and last weeks' part one. To read the piece her hubby Arnie Kotler wrote for Inquiring Mind on his relationship with his father, Richard Baker and Thich Nhat Hanh, go to cuke.com, write his name in the site search box, and look for Letting go of My Father.
After recording 64 episodes and featuring 58 amazing guests, the Streaming Audio podcast series has amassed over 130,000 plays on YouTube in the last year. We're extremely proud of these achievements and feel that it's time to take a well-deserved break. Streaming Audio will be taking a vacation! We want to express our gratitude to you, our valued listeners, for spending 10,000 hours with us on this incredible journey. Rest assured, we will be back with more episodes!
The podcast for social impact practitioners looking to connect big ideas with real impact. Join host Sam Caplan as he curates practical advice and inspiring stories from the people changing how we think about social change.
The compressor helps to produce consistent audio levels throughout your recording. Regardless of how careful you are there will inevitably be times when you drift a little close to the mic, have a loud laugh or speak a little too softly. The compressor within Audacity will smooth all of this out in no time.
You can also download and install plug-ins or libraries to add extra functionality to Audacity. Plug-ins can give you extra effects, or more audio generation and analysis capability. Whether you're adding a sound effect or trying to achieve high-quality audio, check out Audacity's list of plug-ins to see which ones can help your editing workflow.
In this section, listen to our series of podcasts for learners at A2 English level (pre-intermediate) and B1 English level (intermediate). The episodes are divided into different sections, from fictional drama and jokes to quizzes and language advice.
Podcasts started out as a completely audio medium. However, with the growing popularity of podcasts, many podcasters have embraced video podcasting as a way to stand out and reach an even bigger audience.
But behind each of these reasons is the desire to be entertained. Whether listeners want to learn something new or simply have something to take their minds off of a mundane task, they want to enjoy the experience of listening to a podcast.
Stuff You Should Know is a very popular example of a conversational podcast. Hosts Chuck and Josh spend each episode educating each other (and the audience) about a topic of general interest. Their style is extremely informal, and listening to SYSK feels like listening in on a chill conversation between two friends.
These podcasts run the gambit from lyrical, topic-based human stories like This American Life, to deep dives into obscure mysteries like Wind of Change, to the ever-popular true-crime podcast like S-Town.
Just as the episodic nature of podcasts works well for long-form nonfiction storytelling, fiction also does well in podcast form. Subscribers can tune in each week for a new installment of anything from experimental sci-fi fantasies like Girl in Space to historical fiction comedies like Edith!
Many content creators, from brands to bloggers to TV shows, repackage their content into podcasts. Listeners can catch highlights from their favorite late-night comedy central program on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: Ears Edition.
An audio file is what stores a segment of sound. Podcasters record their episode and store it in an audio file on their computer or on the cloud. A podcast is a show that distributes audio (and video) files to users over the internet.
A podcast is an audio (and sometimes video) medium for creative content. Podcast creators upload podcast episodes, which are downloaded by listeners and listened to on their mobile devices or computers.
Podcasters can get paid in several ways. The most common is to land podcast sponsorships, in which brands pay them to read advertisements during their show. Other methods include affiliate marketing, premium content, and asking listeners to pay them directly.
A video podcast is an emerging format for podcasts. Audio is still the main medium for podcasts, but many podcasters are adding video elements to appeal to wider audiences and make their content even more engaging.
While regular podcasts are recorded, edited, and published after the fact, live podcasts are streamed to audiences in real-time. Recording software like Riverside.fm allows podcasters to live stream directly to Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Most podcasters who are serious about building an audience need a website for their show. These sites give background information about the show and its hosts, promote the podcast, and act as a central hub for the show. Many podcast websites also contain links to past episodes, and listeners can usually listen to episodes directly from the site if they choose.