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Introduction
Once you’re an old hand at listening to and creating podcasts, it’s time to see about expanding your repertoire of what you can listen to… and who will listen to yours.
Check out these sites. They are excellent places to find podcasts on just about everything under the sun. And many of them have a place to submit a link for you to get your podcast heard!
Once you’ve created a podcast and saved it in an MP3 format, what do you do with it? You need to get it attached to an RSS feed (which will give it a URL) and you need to tell the world about it and give them a place to find information about it (which requires another URL). Then you need to market either URL to the world! For ease of understanding, let’s simply their actions to these three things:
- Host your Podcast. (Attach it to a RSS feed and provide you with a URL so subscribers can download).
- Host your web page (which is like a “cover page” that will tell people about your podcast and give them the URL to subscribe to it).
- Market your podcast (tell the world about your podcast and give them a chance to learn more about it and subscribe if they want).
Some sites provide some or all of these services. Different sites provide you with varying levels of these services. Here is a general rule of thumb on how they work:
Since these sites are born and disappear every day and since many provide varying degrees of service, which changes over time, we cannot accurately review them. We can only provide you with the links to check out for yourself.
Generally speaking, we have divided the sites into the following categories:
Podcast hosting sites – Hosts
Podcast hosting sites – Marketers
The marketers can still be considered host sites, even though they don’t actually “keep” your podcast on their server, since (in many cases) that’s the only place you’ll be putting your podcast RSS feed URL, so they become the only way for the world to learn about your podcast.
So you’ll want to find a host to put your podcast and a marketer to tell the world about it.
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