How To Spot and Avoid Spamcasts on Audible and Spotify!

The Circle Sessions

Captivate’s new Spark AI podcast assistant

It does the stuff you’d expect with creating show titles and transcripts, but more impressively it tracks your episode stats in order to suggest future show topics, advertising insertion points, and more. CaptivateFM does it again!

Google’s Audio Overview Can Create Podcasts. We Put It To The Test

Google’s AI note-taking product, NotebookLM, has launched a new feature that allows users to turn their documents into audio discussions between two AI “hosts”.

Audio Overview generates a “deep dive” discussion based on the sources in your notebook, including uploaded files, text or links to websites.

The AI hosts summarize the materials and are capable of making connections between topics. They also banter back and forth in realistic ways.

Meet Dispatch digital producer, podcast engineer Patrick Flaherty - The Columbus Dispatch

Hilarious comments made by The Dispatch’s podcast dude.

What is the biggest challenge I face

One of the biggest challenges that I face is getting readers to understand the importance and value that digital audio and podcasting hold. Being able to grow a podcast and gain a loyal listenership can be a tough thing to do in a saturated market.

Simply making folks aware that news can be consumed through audio at the Dispatch and not just by reading online or in the newspaper is an ongoing daily challenge.

Waaaaiiit! Whaaaat? You are creating news content that SHOULD resonate with your NEWS READERS. And growth is hard? And you can’t convert you ONLINE readers to podcasts?

Weird AI tools no one asked for…

1) Descript has an AI eye contact filter that rotates your eyes in their sockets so it always looks like you’re staring at the camera.

One of the podcasts I follow has started doing video and they’re experimenting with this tool. I think it looks “just off enough” so that something appears strange.

But again… it’s a podcaster who is using it to record video… so we’ll never see it because we don’t watch podcasts!!

2 ) Don found a podcast called “The Hawaiiahshirt.net - Authentic Hawaiian Aloha Shirts”on Audible while searching for non-fiction audio books about Hawaii.

Apparently you can submit just about any podcast feed to Audible and it will be accepted for distribution on their audiobook platform because this “podcast” solely consists of one minute podcasts read by a really bad AI voice pimping each of the Hawaiian shirt designs in their catalog.

Don wasn’t surprised to find it on podcast-specific platforms like Spotify:

BUT Don was expecting a little more gatekeeping and curation on the Audible platform.

Circle Session Moments

00:00 AI-enhanced podcast tool for insightful analytics.

03:33 Captivate FM tool enhances ad integration intelligently.

07:11 Podcasts feature chapters for ads and moments.

11:32 AI replacing hosts in radio and podcasts.

14:00 Great summary, entertaining but lacking interactivity.

17:50 Columbus Dispatch features digital producer Patrick Flaherty.

21:10 The Daily: successful podcast, others not so much.

23:46 Columbus podcast struggles for more listeners.

28:27 AI tool paints fake eyeballs; looks unnatural.

30:51 AI's uncanny valley: artificial yet slightly off.

33:46 Podcast purely promotes Aloha shirts via episodes.

36:07 Amazon hosts many low-value, spammy ebooks.

41:01 Episode ideas profitable; contact for more insights.

MEET DON THE IDEA GUY!

Possessing creative powers beyond those of mere mortals, DON THE IDEA GUY rescues those in need of innovative ideas through his brainstorming sessions, articles, and websites.

DTIG (DEE-tigg) has been featured in Small Business News, interviewed by the New York Times, quoted in Fast Company magazine, and served as the first president of the International Idea Trade Association.

Don is a proud member of the BzzAgent community, and is featured in BzzAgent.com founder Dave Balter’s book “Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing.”

His Innovation Channel on the Duct Tape Marketing Blog has been recognized as a Forbes Favorite.

Don is the author of the book “100-WHATS of CREATIVITY“, one-hundred ‘what if?’ questions to spur your creativity, unmuck your mind, and break through your mental blocks and has written dozens of articles and hundreds of blog postings on the subject of increasing innovation and adding creativity to your personal and professional life.

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Each week, one of The Circle of Experts talks about critical aspects of growing your podcast. We focus on marketing, social media, monetization, website design, and implementation of all of these to help you make the best podcast possible.

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Tonnisha English-Amamoo of TJE Communications

Don The Idea Guy

Brett Johnson, My Podcast Guy, from Circle270Media Podcast Consultants

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