In a world that may’t accurately outline a podcast anymore, there is a new obsession over and stress to publish video. But when you’ll be able to publish each audio and video, which ought to really be your precedence?
1. Prioritize audio in manufacturing
I’ve stated it many occasions: a very powerful a part of video is audio. If folks cannot hear and perceive you, it will not matter how wonderful your video appears to be like.
So it doesn’t matter what your video setup is, be certain that your audio is the perfect it may be.
For instance, you would possibly really feel prefer it compromises the aesthetics of your video to have a visual microphone in your shot. So then you might have three decisions:
- Use a mic that is too far-off and sacrifice your audio high quality.
- Put money into a top quality micrrophone answer that may seize audio out of body or barely seen.
- Permit a visual microphone in your shot so that you get the perfect audio doable.
Possibility A is lazy and newbie. Possibility B is almost certainly costly. However you most likely have already got the gear for Possibility C.
In any case, some folks really assume it is solely a podcast if they will see your microphone within the video! 🤣
So long as the microphone is not blocking your face (and it most likely by no means wants to dam your face for good audio anyway), your viewers would most likely a lot reasonably see the microphone than not have the ability to hear or perceive you.
2. Prioritize listeners in your viewers
Relating to your viewers, the audio expertise can also be extra necessary than the video expertise.
The viewers expertise goes past merely the technical manufacturing! It is within the content material you share and the way you current that content material.
I see too many podcasters make the identical mistake that as quickly as they will see one another—whether or not live-streaming, pre-recorded, or even when it is an audio podcast however recorded via a video platform (like Squadcast or Riverside)—they are going to converse as if the entire viewers can see what the podcasters see.
Moreover, night a big proportion of video-consuming audiences are solely listening, or they is likely to be “watching” with little or no consideration on the video (like via smaller picture-in-picture).
I like how James Cridland, editor of Podnews, defines podcasting: “leisure on your ears, whereas your eyes are busy.”
You possibly can apply that to podcasting like this: can your viewers nonetheless absolutely profit out of your podcast if their eyes had been closed the entire time?
3. Prioritize video for sharing
Here is the place I flip issues round! One of the best ways to make it doable on your podcast to “go viral” is so that you can clip it into shareable snippets. One of the best format for these snippets is video.
I believe that is unlucky, but it surely’s how the world has labored for years and there appears to be no signal of fixing: video snippets are extra shareable than audio snippets—let alongside full audio episodes.
Get into TikTok, Fb Reels, movies on X, and even YouTube and you will see that brief video snippets work finest for fast consumption and sharing.
And after I say to prioritize video for sharing, I do not imply simply the video of your speaking head. For social, snippet-based video, go forward with sq. or vertical video, baked in subtitles (simply please not animated one phrase at a time!), screenshots and B-roll, and fascinating cuts.
There are nice apps that make this sort of social-video-editing simpler. My favourite is OpusClip, however you can even attempt the built-in snippet options in Riverside and SquadCast/Descript.
Preserve this in thoughts: social movies is not going to develop your podcast very a lot, however they will develop your attain and general authority and affect! So would you reasonably have 100 podcast listeners plus 1,000 video-snippet viewers, or solely the 100 podcast listeners?
4. Feeling overwhelmed? Then prioritize audio!
Sure, you might have the potential to get your content material in entrance of a much bigger viewers in case you publish video along with your audio. If you cannot do any of the particular issues in your video, then not less than some video is best than no video. However in case you’re not in a position or snug to do any video, the don’t really feel responsible!
There are numerous profitable podcasts which are nonetheless solely audio, and there might be loads of different common and even top-ranking podcasts publishing solely audio.
Simply take a look at me. I am a full-time dad, working my very own enterprise, internet hosting a podcast, and homeschooling my son. Though I really have been recording video of all my latest episodes, I’ve not but completed something with these movies as a result of that overwhelms me proper now, and I am unable to afford to delegate the enhancing to somebody or one thing else—not less than not but. And so I concentrate on what I can do finest proper now: audio. (However I am going to proceed recording movies of my episode simply in case I may even get round to publishing them or utilizing snippets from them!)
I shouldn’t have to publish video!
Say that your self!
Particular thanks
- Bryan Enztminger, from High Tier Audio, gave 501§
- Adam Curry and Dave Jones had me on episode 237 of Podcasting 2.0, speaking about chapters and PodChapters—which now has a free trial!
- Dan LeFebvre, from Primarily based on a True Story, despatched me a protracted however very considerate message in response to episode 409, “Ought to You Share Your Religion, Politics, or Morals in Your Podcast?” I am saving that message and probably others for an upcoming episode to share and reply to suggestions in regards to the critical and “controversial” points I have been addressing recently. Ship your suggestions, too!
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