Daily(ish)

I talk about the challenge of keeping up with a daily podcast (even under 10 minutes) and why I don’t blame anyone for not subscribing, while thanking listeners who do. I revisit the idea of publishing a video version since I’m already recording in Descript, but I’m reluctant to make daily video part of my commitment because it adds publishing steps and longer uploads, even if YouTube’s platform is easy.

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00:00 Dailyish Check In
00:24 Daily Podcast Reality
00:54 Considering Video Episodes
01:39 YouTube Discoverability
03:40 Unlisted Video Experiment
04:26 Would You Watch
05:15 Comments And Community
06:04 Subscribe And Sign Off

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Chris
I edit podcasts so you don't have to. I live in Saskatchewan so you don't have to?

What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Hello and welcome to Dailies
for September 19th, 2026.

I'm recording an episode every day this,
for this something 50th something planet.

Hey, it's Saturday.

Well, depending on when
you listen, I guess.

It's Thursday as I record this.

It'll be Saturday when it gets published
out into the world, so maybe it's Sunday,

Monday, Tuesday, whatever, whenever you
finally get around to listening to this.

I asked a friend who-- if
they had subscribed to the

podcast, and they hadn't, and
I honestly don't blame anybody.

Like, it's-- even if you are subscribed,
to keep up with a daily podcast, even if

it's under 10 minutes, is still a lot.

And admittedly, it's more work to produce
a podcast every day, but I still have

sympathy for people trying to keep up with
any sort of daily task, and especially

if it's listening to a random person on
the internet ramble about their thoughts.

So I appreciate you if you are
here listening to this right now.

Speaking of listening, I have
been floating the idea, I think I

mentioned it, like, in some of the
first couple episodes about doing

a video version of the podcast, and
I, I really am reluctant to commit

to this being part of the challenge.

I don't think it would be that doing
a video version of the podcast every

day for the year is not part of
the deal that I made with myself.

But one thing that kind of keeps
gnawing at me is, like, I'm doing a

video version anyways because I am
recording it into Descript, a tool

I use for recording and editing.

It's basically there.

I just need to, like, put an
intro and outro visually onto it.

And so why not do a video version of it,
other than it just adds more steps every

time I go to publish a podcast episode?

YouTube, if you've never published
on YouTube, you just watch stuff

on YouTube, YouTube's publishing
platform is actually v- very easy.

It's, it's been refined and
updated and refreshed, and the

user experience has been, you know,
adjusted and everything, like over

many, many years of them doing it

But it still does take time, and
uploading video just takes longer

than uploading audio files only.

There's metadata to set, there's
playlists to add things to, there's

all sorts of checks and things you have
to wait for on YouTube But one thing

YouTube adds that nothing else can add
in the same way is discoverability.

My show on Apple Podcasts, on
Spotify, on, uh, Pocket Casts, it

sits there, it's waiting to be found.

It might get featured by
somebody at some point somewhere.

Maybe somebody writes a podcast.

Maybe somebody writes a blog post
about it or shares it on social media.

Very unlikely.

Even if you love podcasts that you listen
to, the stats show it's so unlikely for

people to actually share and talk about
it on social media or blog posts or

anything else, So what YouTube offers
is a bit of a leveling of the playing

field for people, and this is why
YouTube is so attractive as a podcast

hosting sort of video platform, is the
algorithm there can help surface your

show in front of people that wouldn't
otherwise see it because they listen to

a show that's like yours, because they
search for stuff that's kinda like your

show, because your show or your episode
maybe answers a question they might have

had about how to do something in Mac,
whatever, audio editing work or whatever.

Any of those reasons can be why your
show would pop up in ways that it won't

normally for people who are just searching
on YouTube or in their AI bot of choice.

AI is, is great, and they are doing better
work, I feel like, than search engines did

as, as far as like surfacing information
from podcasts, but that's a bit of a long

tail for getting someone to subscribe
to your podcast because they found an

answer to their problem in a chatbot.

But I digress.

What I've been tempted with is trying to
do video versions of this podcast whenever

I have a video version available to me.

So obviously, if I'm doing it on my
phone and just kinda throwing it on

transistor from wherever I happen to
be in the world, not gonna happen.

But when I'm at home in front
of my desk with computer,

camera, microphone, why not?

And so what I've actually done, I
don't know if you've noticed, but

the last number of episodes back from
this one and the next couple ahead

of it, I've put the YouTube version.

It's unlisted on my channel, so it doesn't
get thrown out into YouTube at large.

But, um, on the episode page on
Dailyish, so daily.chrisens.com/292

in this case, will have the actual
YouTube version embedded in the page.

So you can go there and, and
watch it there if you'd like.

You can see me waving at you with
two hands for some weird reason.

and so I'm just curious,
would you watch that?

Is it something that you would
like to have as an option?

Would you switch to just the YouTube
version if that was available?

Obviously, the deal was I'm
making an audio podcast.

You subscribed in your
audio podcast player.

Not likely that you're gonna switch
necessarily, and so it's a bit of a

biased audience that I'm polling here.

But what do you think?

Do you listen/watch podcasts on YouTube?

And this wouldn't even necessarily be
that it would be a podcast version.

I don't know what it'll be.

But you can put a podcast
playlist on YouTube, and so

then people can subscribe to it.

But I might just throw the videos
on YouTube and see if anybody who

subscribes to my YouTube channel would
also want to watch or listen to these

as well as I kind of experiment with
the podcast platform and the medium,

uh, which is why they probably subscribe
to my YouTube channel to learn about

podcasting and audio stuff on the Mac.

As always, feel free to reply to the post.

That's the other thing that
YouTube does really well, comments.

Podcasts are terrible for comments
and replies and things like that.

Transistor does a good job of enabling
with Blue Sky, the social network Blue

Sky, where when this post goes out
saying, "Hey, there's a new episode from

Chris on my Blue Sky account," you…

If you reply to that, then the
replies to that get added to the

episode page on, uh, Transistor
on my, like, daily.chrisenns.com,

the episode pages for each episode
and whereas no other podcast platform

really does it that well, and it's hard
to aggregate them all in one place.

Whereas if you're on YouTube, y-
everybody knows the comments there

are right there, and they're all
in one spot, easy to follow, easy

to do and read, and et cetera.

So that's another appealing part
of throwing things on YouTube,

but can also be toxic, of course.

So anyways, as always, feel free to
reply to this post on social media

wherever I told you about it or you
can email me chris.enns@gmail.com.

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you get your podcasts, Daily-ish,
wherever you get your podcasts,

and I hope you'll be back tomorrow.

Thanks for listening.

Have a great day.

Bye.