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Prepared for Katie | Delivered May 22, 2020
Top Podcasts During COVID-19
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Goals
To understand the state of the podcast space by looking at the top podcasts or successful podcasts during the global lockdown, podcaster collaborations, or extensions into other platforms and the role of virtual tools in podcasting.
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Early Findings
Top Podcasts
As of
May 18, 2020
, here are the top 15 Apple podcasts in the US based on the number of new subscribers:
Call Her Daddy
by Barstool Sports
The Joe Rogan Experience
by Joe Rogan
The Daily
by The New York Times
Crime Junkie
by audiochuck
Wind of Change
by Pineapple Street Studios
My Favorite Murder
with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark by Exactly Right
Motive for Murder
by NBC News
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
by Brené Brown and Cadence13
Dateline NBC
by NBC News
Office Ladies
by Earwolf & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
Up First
by NPR
The Ben Shapiro Show
by The Daily Wire
Rabbit Hole
by The New York Times
Stuff You Should Know
by iHeartRadio
This American Life
by This American Life
Role of Zoom in Podcasting
Zoom
is a good virtual tool resource that is being used by more and more podcasters who do remote recording.
According to a podcaster named Chasing Earhart, "
We use Zoom
because it has built-in recording and it splits the audio from the video automatically, which makes it easy for our team to edit. The audio quality for Zoom is also superior to many other audio recordings. Often times not much editing is required to get the quality of sound that we need. Additionally, we use Zoom because of its flexibility and its ability to encompass multiple participants in roundtable discussions.”
The Selling with Social Podcast states that “Podcasts just done over the phone don’t end up working out as well as podcasts recorded via video
with Zoom
. You get to have a real live virtual discussion which creates a better listening experience because audience members feel as if they are in the same room as the host and interviewee."
While The Publishing Profits Podcast Show states that they “
use Zoom
for every interview we do. We record both video and audio. We post the videos on YouTube and use only the audio for the iTunes podcast.”
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