mastodon 4.7.3SVP of Podcasting 2.0 Brand Management, podcasting advocate and educator, award-winning host of The Audacity to Podcast, creator of Podgagement (formerly My Podcast Reviews) and PodChapters, curator of Podcast Industry Insights.
Following up from today's boardroom.
I dug into the Stripe docs and found that it _is_ possible for a payment form to split a payment more than once. But being part of the split requires a prior connection.
But once that connection is made, the payment form could delegate splits based on something as simple as a URL parameter.
For example, a podcast could include the payment page URL in their Funding tag, then PodcastGuru automatically adds "?ref=podcastguru" to the URL.
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Just published for discussion:
A framework for that pays developers, too
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/781
What it feels like to start a new #podcast
@james@bne.social Want me to send you a copy?
When #podcast apps truncate long titles, the words at the beginning matter most. Put the strongest promise, clearest topic, or most useful curiosity trigger early.
Option to export transcripts in SRT—just launched on PodChapters!
Check it out! https://podchapters.com/
Happy Mother’s Day to all the selfless, brave, and true moms!
And no, calling your podcast your “baby” doesn’t make you a mom. 😉
One of my biggest workflow changes was moving away from full scripts.
I’ve found that outlines give me more energy, fewer awkward retakes, and a more natural connection with my audience.
I updated The Audacity to Podcast's homepage to showcase my current #podcasting products and services I've created for my fellow #podcasters.
Please check them out along with award-winning podcast about podcasting!
Smarter AI chapter-adding options—just launched on PodChapters!
Check it out! https://podchapters.com/
"My #podcast is world-famous!"
"I'll just fix it in post."
Clever titles can work when they fit the show. But if the clever part hides what the episode is actually about, your #podcast title may be entertaining and still unhelpful.
3 "rules" of #podcasting:
1. Provide value to others.
2. Be consistent.
3. Follow your own plan.
New feature launched on PodChapters!
Apple Podcasts will support #Podcasting2.0 cloud chapters. But if you want to download the chapters Apple generates for you, you can now upload them into PodChapters to edit, embed in your MP3, and export the updated chapters.
@russell@podcastindex.social Essentially, txt could potentially handle anything, and we could just stop inventing tags altogether because the txt tag could handle it.
But that's messy, unstructured, wasteful, and difficult to parse.
Episode numbers can help people navigate your back catalog, but they can also make a title harder to scan when the title itself starts with a number. Better formatting protects clarity without giving up the organizational value of your #podcast numbering.
A really good perspective on AI here: https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2056170401831796778
Essentially: "AI is backward-looking, creativity is forward-looking."
As of last night, Inception Point AI had 9,264 AI slop podcasts in Apple Podcasts that have published an episode this year.
@russell@podcastindex.social socialInteract is for—wait for it—social interaction, which is significantly different from contact methods.
"Contact" is more of a one-way flow. Audience sends feedback to the podcast, and the podcast might include that in the podcast. There's less expectation for back-and-forth interaction.
Plus, this contact tag is structured to handle different types of contact: booking, sponsorship, audience feedback, and potentially more.
Descriptive isn't always better. Creative isn't always worse. The better question is whether your #podcast title helps the right listener understand why the episode is worth their time.
I think AI is most useful when it reformats my original ideas, not when it replaces them.
That’s a big part of how I’m using it now, especially for turning a spoken episode into a cleaner article.
If an episode covers several unrelated ideas, look for the theme first. A strong umbrella title can make your #podcast feel focused, even when the conversation covers a lot of ground.
Is one episode title trying to carry too much weight? Multi-topic #podcast episodes usually work better when the title helps the listener decide: Is this worth playing right now?
My show notes and article workflow now start with what I actually said.
Instead of forcing a separate writing process from scratch, I can use the transcript, outline, and some cleanup to turn the episode into something still authentic to me.
A multi-topic episode title doesn't have to name everything. It has to set the right expectation, spark interest, and help your #podcast be found by the right people.
