Podcast Talent Coach

Leverage Your Audience To Grow Your Podcast Downloads – Episode 188 The most common challenge I hear podcasters facing is growing their audience. We all want to drive our podcast downloads and grow our audience. This week, I have 9 things you can do this week to steadily gain more podcast downloads. There was a presentation at Podcast Movement 2017 called “How People Really Listen To Podcasts”. This study showed two primary ways people find new podcasts. Most respondents in the study (60%) said they find new podcasts from social media. Friends was the next biggest way (57%) people discover new shows to try. Both of these traffic sources come from word-of-mouth. What are you doing to get others to talk about your podcast? If you want to grow your podcast downloads, you need to get in front of other people and then get those people to talk about your show.   1. Grow your Facebook following. As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users. As of September 2017, Instagram had reach