If you wish to develop your podcast viewers, make cash along with your podcast, or deepen your relationship along with your listeners, Podgagement offers you sensible instruments to assist these targets!
Podgagement started as My Podcast Evaluations, which collected worldwide podcast evaluations and delivered them to podcasters. But it surely has been fully rebuilt as a result of it now does rather more than evaluations. It helps you perceive your podcast’s visibility, simplify your calls to motion, contain your viewers, uncover networking alternatives, and make higher choices about your podcast.
Sure, that is my product, and this text goes to sound a bit like an infomercial. I received’t apologize for that as a result of I created Podgagement as a podcaster for podcasters, podcast networks, and podcast companies. I take advantage of it myself, I really like constructing it, and I actually consider these instruments might help you get extra out of your podcast.
You may be taught extra about Podgagement and take a look at it your self as I share the next options.
1. Combination your worldwide podcast rankings and evaluations from almost 200 locations [03:24]
When your podcast is offered in Apple Podcasts, it may possibly seem in as many as 175 completely different nation catalogs. Every catalog has its personal rankings and evaluations. You could possibly manually change between international locations in Apple Podcasts Join, preserve monitor of what you’ve already seen, and repeat that course of often. However that takes quite a lot of clicks.
Podgagement does that give you the results you want. It screens your rankings and evaluations throughout almost 200 locations, together with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podchaser, Goodpods, and Castbox, with assist for added platforms deliberate.
It additionally distinguishes rankings from evaluations. A ranking is just one to 5 stars, whereas a overview consists of written suggestions. Spotify presently helps rankings however not written evaluations, whereas Apple Podcasts permits each. Podgagement brings these indicators collectively and calculates an engagement rating exhibiting how usually your viewers writes evaluations as a substitute of solely leaving rankings. It intelligently excludes Spotify from that calculation as a result of Spotify listeners don’t have the choice to jot down a overview.
The vital factor isn’t merely the place your evaluations seem. What issues most is what you do with them.
Be a part of a free Podgagement Success Session [06:58]
That precept of utilizing your engagement is what I educate in my free Podgagement Success Periods.
These are reside, one-hour group classes on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. Japanese. They’re not hard-sell webinars with some synthetic supply that expires earlier than you’ll be able to give it some thought. I reveal easy methods to use Podgagement’s instruments, reply questions, and sometimes present attendees what their very own podcasts appear like contained in the system.
You’re welcome whether or not you’re already a Podgagement member, contemplating it, or just interested by how these instruments may work in your podcast. Be a part of a free Podgagement Success Session.
2. Get extra rankings and evaluations with a simplified name to motion [08:23]
Asking listeners to overview your podcast can shortly turn into difficult: “Evaluation us in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goodpods, Podchaser, or wherever else you will discover us.” Then what ought to a listener do in the event that they don’t use any of these companies?
Podgagement offers every podcast a LovethePodcast.com touchdown web page. As a substitute of itemizing a number of apps, you may make one easy request: “In case you love the podcast, please give us a ranking and overview at LovethePodcast.com/audacity.”
The web page detects the customer’s system and shows appropriate choices. Somebody on Android received’t be proven an Apple Podcasts button as a result of Apple Podcasts isn’t out there there. Somebody utilizing Home windows may even see “iTunes,” whereas an iPhone person will see Apple Podcasts.
You too can allow direct evaluations. This lets anybody submit a ranking and written overview via your touchdown web page with out putting in an app or creating an account. The overview received’t be posted to Apple Podcasts or one other platform, however it’s going to nonetheless be out there so that you can use. Once more, it’s not the place the overview lives that issues most. It’s what you do with it.
See this in motion on my Love web page.
3. Share your podcast evaluations wherever [11:04]
Gathering evaluations is just the start. Podgagement helps you utilize them inside and out of doors your podcast.
You may tag, kind, and filter evaluations so you realize which of them you’ve already learn in your podcast. You may copy a overview in a number of codecs, together with Markdown, HTML, single-line textual content, and multiline textual content. This makes it straightforward so as to add testimonials to your episode notes, web site, electronic mail publication, or social posts.
Podgagement can even flip any overview right into a downloadable picture with just a few clicks. You may choose sq., portrait, widescreen, and different helpful dimensions, together with the 1.91:1 facet ratio generally used when Fb, LinkedIn, and X embed photos. You may modify the colours, change between mild and darkish modes, toggle components, and save your most well-liked design because the default for future photos.
If you would like evaluations in your web site, you’ll be able to create an embeddable widget for one overview, a specific assortment, or an mechanically up to date group, similar to each five-star overview or all the pieces with a selected tag. You configure the widget inside Podgagement as a substitute of enhancing its code every time.
Each overview additionally receives a shareable web page. That web page shows the overview and offers guests easy choices to overview or comply with your podcast. As a substitute of repeatedly telling folks how great your personal podcast is, let your viewers’s phrases present the social proof.
4. Watch your podcast rankings throughout almost 34,000 international charts [15:59]
Podgagement tracks podcast rankings each hour throughout almost 34,000 Apple Podcasts and Spotify charts world wide.
As a result of I started amassing this info years earlier than releasing the chart-tracking characteristic, you might be able to see historic rankings from lengthy earlier than you joined Podgagement. You may overview your greatest place, once you first appeared on a chart, your most up-to-date look, and the way that rating modified over time.
These rankings can present helpful indicators for experiments. What occurs after you modify your publishing frequency, modify the way you title episodes, or publish extra interviews as a substitute of solo episodes? Downloads can present how your personal viewers is responding, whereas chart positions can present how your podcast’s recognition compares with different reveals in the identical class.
Scores and evaluations don’t decide your podcast’s chart place. Monitoring rankings received’t enhance them by itself, both. However the historic knowledge might help you consider what’s occurring and make higher choices about your podcast.
5. Accumulate written and voicemail suggestions out of your viewers [18:16]
Podcast calls to motion usually turn into an exhausting listing of choices: name this quantity, electronic mail this tackle, document a message some other place, or fill out one other type. Each further alternative offers your viewers one other alternative to surrender.
Podgagement offers a easy PodcastFeedback.com web page the place your listeners can both write a message or document a voicemail. The identical web page works on computer systems and cellular gadgets, and listeners can embody written context with a recording when they should make clear a reputation, spelling, or URL.
You obtain an electronic mail notification when new suggestions arrives. Voicemails are mechanically transcribed so you’ll be able to shortly perceive the message earlier than deciding what to do with it. You may then obtain the audio in your podcast.
As a substitute of explaining a number of suggestions strategies, you’ll be able to merely ship folks to my Suggestions web page.
6. Share viewers suggestions inside or outdoors your podcast [20:17]
When somebody sends voicemail suggestions, you’ll be able to obtain the audio and play it in your podcast. This brings your viewers’s literal voices into your episodes and reveals different listeners that you simply welcome their participation.
Utilizing viewers engagement can produce extra engagement. The particular person whose message you characteristic will in all probability really feel valued, whereas different listeners could turn into extra fascinated about sending their very own questions, tales, or concepts.
You too can share suggestions outdoors your podcast. Each submission receives a shareable URL. If it consists of audio, guests can hear immediately from the web page. This may very well be helpful for a fan podcast that receives an fascinating principle and needs to ask dialogue earlier than the subsequent episode.
These suggestions pages additionally invite guests to submit their very own suggestions or comply with the podcast. Thus, sharing one particular person’s participation can encourage much more participation.
7. Uncover networking alternatives [22:21]
Apple Podcasts usually shows a “You May Additionally Like” part beneath a podcast. This isn’t a random listing. It’s algorithmically generated from viewers overlap, which makes it a helpful supply of potential networking alternatives.
If one other podcast seems beneath yours, some proportion of your listeners additionally listens to that present. I name this an outgoing networking connection. You would possibly invite its host onto your podcast, supply to be their visitor, prepare a cross-promotion, collaborate on a undertaking, or just be taught extra about what pursuits your shared viewers.
Podgagement tracks how this outgoing listing modifications over time. Extra importantly, it additionally finds incoming connections: different podcasts whose advice lists embody your present. Discovering these manually would require checking thousands and thousands of podcasts, however Podgagement screens them mechanically and notifies you when it finds a brand new connection.
A podcast can have not more than 15 outgoing suggestions, however there’s no sensible restrict to what number of different podcasts would possibly level again to it. Thus, your incoming listing may include a whole lot and even 1000’s of alternatives.
You may filter these podcasts by style, overview depend, publishing recency, variety of episodes, and different indicators. This helps you give attention to the relationships most related to your podcast as a substitute of treating each connection as equally useful.
8. Monitor in-app search rankings for higher podcast search engine optimization [28:23]
Podcast search engine optimization is about making your podcast and episodes simpler to seek out when somebody searches inside a podcast app.
Podgagement tracks your precise search positions inside Apple Podcasts. This issues as a result of Apple Podcasts shows three sorts of outcomes: a blended listing of podcasts and episodes, podcast-only outcomes, and episode-only outcomes. Podgagement tracks all three.
You select the phrases you wish to monitor, similar to your title, podcast subject, area of interest, or a phrase your ultimate listener would possibly search. Podgagement then checks your rankings each hour throughout supported international locations and retains the historic knowledge.
Apple doesn’t reveal each phrase folks use to find your podcast, so no instrument can present a whole listing of your search phrases. However when you realize which phrases matter to you, Podgagement might help you monitor your visibility for them.
You may then check modifications. Publish an episode concentrating on a selected phrase, modify your podcast description, or refine a title, after which watch how your visibility modifications. This knowledge doesn’t assure higher rankings, however it may possibly present whether or not your selections coincide with motion in search outcomes.
9. Develop your podcast viewers with a sensible touchdown web page [31:08]
Podgagement’s FollowthePodcast.com pages are designed round one aim: serving to somebody comply with your podcast.
As a substitute of telling folks to seek out you in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podcast Addict, Overcast, or a dozen different apps, you can provide them one URL. The web page detects their system and presents appropriate choices. An Android customer would possibly see Podcast Addict however not Apple Podcasts. An iPhone person would possibly see Apple Podcasts and Overcast.
This simplifies the choice in your potential listener and simplifies your name to motion. You may say, “Comply with the podcast to obtain each episode mechanically at FollowthePodcast.com/audacity.”
The Love, Suggestions, and Comply with pages all use speakable domains. You don’t have to show your viewers easy methods to spell Podgagement earlier than giving them a name to motion. You too can redirect a URL from your personal area, similar to myawesomepodcast.com/comply with, to the web page Podgagement offers.
Every web page can embody a customized message or an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video. Your Comply with web page may introduce your podcast, clarify why somebody ought to comply with it, or just thank them for changing into a part of your viewers.
See the expertise on my Comply with web page.
10. Monitor a number of podcasts and BCC notifications to cohosts [35:13]
You may handle a number of podcasts from one Podgagement account, with subscription ranges primarily based on what number of reveals you could monitor.
This may be helpful should you host a number of podcasts, handle reveals for purchasers, or function a podcast community. You may configure the notifications for every podcast and blind-carbon-copy cohosts, purchasers, or community associates.
You keep management of the account whereas the suitable folks obtain notifications about new rankings, evaluations, suggestions, and rankings. That offers everybody helpful info with out requiring you to ahead each message manually or present entry to all the account.
11. Upcoming: make your podcast and episodes extra shareable [37:13]
One upcoming Podgagement characteristic will make it simpler in your viewers to share your podcast or a selected episode.
The deliberate share web page will let guests select what they wish to share after which present handy buttons for social networks and different locations. In case your podcast has a trailer, that may be the default. In any other case, the web page can spotlight your newest episode or let somebody choose out of your episode archive.
Particular person episode pages will embody a participant so a brand new customer can merely go to the web page and press play. The web page may even present device-aware following choices, making it simpler for somebody who enjoys the episode to turn into a daily listener.
The aim is to equip your current viewers to introduce your podcast to different folks with out making them wrestle with difficult hyperlinks or directions.
12. Upcoming: receives a commission by your viewers [39:08]
One other main characteristic in growth will assist podcasters obtain monetary assist from their audiences via a value-for-value mannequin.
This isn’t designed round locking episodes behind a paywall or promoting merchandise. It’s for podcasters who already present one thing useful free of charge and wish to give listeners a straightforward option to return some worth.
The deliberate system will assist one-time and recurring funds, customized contribution quantities, and named ranges or tiers. Listeners may select a significant quantity, together with the sorts of symbolic numbers some podcast communities take pleasure in utilizing.
I additionally wish to assist podcast app builders. If somebody reaches the contribution web page via a appropriate fashionable podcast app, a disclosed portion of the fee may go to that app’s developer. Paying builders offers them extra assets to make higher podcast apps, which finally advantages podcasters and listeners, too.
The precise charges are nonetheless being calculated, so I’m not going to vow a quantity earlier than the system is prepared. My intention is to maintain them low since you’ll already be paying for Podgagement.
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Be a part of a free Podgagement Success Session [43:59]
In case you already use Podgagement, otherwise you wish to see how these options work earlier than deciding, be part of me for a free reside Success Session on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. Japanese.
I’ll present you easy methods to use the instruments, reveal newer options, and reply questions alongside the way in which. Even should you by no means turn into a Podgagement member, I hope the session helps you suppose extra strategically about your podcast’s visibility, viewers engagement, and alternatives.
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