Create your own Podcast - From Idea to Broadcast.

The course will cover the following:

1. Getting your Podcast from Idea to Launch

• The podcast landscape – size of market and competition, most popular kinds of podcast, and the podcast audience.
• The business of branded podcasts.
• Your goals, the audience you want to reach, and workshopping any initial ideas you have for shows you’d like to make.
• Finding your podcast format (the best ‘vehicle’ for your idea)  – this will include a workshop where we analyse clips of popular podcasts. together, and also start to establish the format that will suit you best, based on your goals and strengths.
• Episode structure – powerful intros, creating soundscapes using sound effects and music, optimal episode length.
• 5 steps to launch – title, series description, theme music, cover art, and trailer. 
• How to publish on Apple, Spotify and all other major platforms.

2. Recording and Editing High Quality Audio

• The recording and editing equipment you’ll need to make a podcast.
• How to record in various scenarios using different set-ups.
• Remote recording – how to achieve high quality sound when you’re not in the room together.
• Editing audio – basic editing technique & best-practice approach.
• Music and sound effect libraries.
• Creating a soundscape for a quality listener-experience.

3. Finding an audience and measuring success

• Creating a publishing plan to effectively promote your podcast.
• Video-recording your podcast – equipment, presentation skills, basic editing.
• Organic growth – how to create audiograms, slick promo videos, and pull-quote tiles quickly and professionally using freemium software.
• Paid promotion – the best way to spend budget when promoting your show.
• Monetisation – how to make money from your show, and how others are doing it.

4. Presenting your Podcast Idea

• Presenting your Podcast idea, Podcast Trailer and submission of final audio
• Have your Podcast broadcast on the Learning Waves Radio Talks Podcast platform