Podcasts have grown in popularity in the last few years, with both advertisers and other media people becoming more involved in the podcast industry. The industry is meant to grow in the next few years, but while it grows, would you like to create your own podcast.
This blog will guide you through how to create a podcast using just your phone. But while the main subject of this blog is on how to create a technology podcast, the same steps can be used if you want to choose any other subject, and it doesn’t just have to be on technology.
Step 1: Decide Your Podcast Topic
There are many different podcasts out there, some which have only one podcast topic, and others which have more. As a Freelance Journalist, I created a podcast for my journalism brand which advertises all of the journalism areas I’m interested in about two years ago, and touches on Film, TV, Theatre, Concert, Conference and Tourism Reviews, as well as political stories that are explained in a simple way. But I’ve also created another podcast recently, ‘The Accessible Technology Podcast’, where I share everything that you’re reading about on here in podcast form, as a way of promoting it further.
There are, however, other podcasts out there as well which you could use as an example, as well as news podcasts which have a mix of subjects, or others like history podcasts or crime podcasts etc, which only have one prime niche.
Either way, it doesn’t matter what type of overall niche or topic you decide to go with, as long as your ambitious about it and it works with the space, or industry, you’re trying to fit into.
The top podcast topic ideas — according to the podcast host, Buzzsprout, are:
- Celebrity News and Interviews
- DIY Tutorials
- Psychology
- Technology
- Product Reviews
- Advice
- Social Media
- Beauty and Fashion
- Nutrition and Diets
- Podcasts about Podcasting
- The outdoors and Survival
- Interviews where guests share their favourite things
- Host-led Workouts
- Guided Meditations
- Book, Tech, Film, TV and Theatre reviews
- Recorded counselling or coaching sessions
- Interviews
- Short stories
- Local news and events
- Children’s stories
- Wedding and Event Planning
- Public / Private Podcast Clubs
- 3D Printing
- Weather systems
- Alternative living
- Urban farming
- Paranormal phenomenons
- Entrepreneurships
- Self-help
- Caving, Rock Climbing and Rappelling
- Sports
- Writing tips
- Retirement
- Podcast summaries
- Pop Culture
- ASMR
- Birdwatching and Birding
- Home Improvement
- Art
- Quick interesting fact podcasts
- History
- Science
- Animals and Pets
- Improv
- Medical tips and alternative health
- True Crime
- Life hacks
- Cooking and Food
- Investing and Finance
- Digital Marketing
- Cycling
- Music
- Day in the Life
- Behind the Scenes
- Travel Podcasts
Step 2: Research Your Topic and Write Up a Script
After you have decided on what your podcast is going to be about, you’ll have to research it and come up with a script.
But there are cheap ways to do this, just by using whatever you can get your hands on easily.
What I’ve used the last month to research and script the 62 episodes of ‘The Accessible Technology Podcast’ which I just finished yesterday was the notes app that comes with the iPhone and iPad — though there are alternative note taking apps that come with Android phones as well.
But the good thing about scripting in a note app is that you can format everything so everything has its certain place, though you can also do that if you use Microsoft Word or Pages.
Step 3: Record and Edit Your Podcast
Next you’ll have to record and edit your podcast, and this is where you’ll have to decide how you want your podcast to run. The way I personally format my podcast is by recording an intro that introduces what the podcast is about, then I import a video clip in which I extract audio from, before moving on to recording an outro, in other words, the end bit of the episode.
All of this will have to happen in audio editing software, but there are hundreds of different softwares in existence. But if you want a cheap audio editing software that you can use on an iPhone or iPad, then I’d suggest using Ferrite, which I use each time I record and edit using my phone and my iPad.
For Android users, however, another app you can use is Audacity, and that is actually available for Android and iOS. Personally, I don’t have any experience using it, but I might consider swapping to it at a later date.
After the episode is fully edited, you just have to export it.
Step 4: Create a podcast with a Podcast Host and upload your podcast to it
There are many podcast hosts out there, and some of the big names out there are Libsyn, Buzzsprout and Podbean. But I haven’t even chosen either of those to run my own two podcasts, and have instead settled on RedCircle.
First of all, you will have to create an account, and after you do that, you’ll have to click or tap on create new podcast. This will bring you to a page to create a podcast, and the first thing you’ll be asked to do is choose a podcast logo (I created mine in Canva, but warning: whatever logo you go with can be no longer than 1400 x 1400 pixels). Next, you can type in what you want to name your podcast, and then you’ll have to give it a description. After you do that, you’ll have to select a primary category (mine is obviously technology), and you can choose a secondary category as well, but that is optional.
All you have to do then is click or tap the create button, and after your podcast has been created, you’ll just have to upload your episode.
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