Justin Jackson: If you're starting a podcast in 2024,
don't start with a video podcast. Start with an audio
podcast. Why? This microphone and a device like your iPhone is
all you need to get started with an audio podcast. To get started
with a video podcast, you need a camera, you need lights,
you need a fancy microphone, you need a mixer, you need a
computer, You need all sorts of background lighting. It's a lot
of work.
It's a lot of money. And all of that equipment and all of that
setup is a distraction from what you should be focusing on when
you're starting a podcast, which is: "Can I create compelling
content that attracts an audience week after week or
episode after episode?" So before you run out and buy a
bunch of equipment, just go out and buy a $100 microphone. When
I got started podcasting in 2012, I used this microphone
plugged into an iPhone, opened up the voice memos app and just
started practicing. And I recorded dozens of episodes that
have never seen the light of day Because I was practicing.
I was trying to find my voice. I was trying to create compelling
narratives, and I would play my audio for different people. And
I just kept improving and improving until I felt like I
had something that was worth releasing. And I released
episodes with this microphone for years before I upgraded to
the fancier Shure SM 7 B and then all of this video
equipment. This is still a great sounding microphone.
You don't need anything fancy. What you need is practice, and
you can start doing that right away. Voice memos, this
microphone. It's all you need. Oh, one more thing.
If you're recording your episodes on your iPhone with
something like voice memos, you can distribute them to Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, etcetera, using a podcast hosting platform like
Transistor. Let me show you how it works. So here in voice
memos, I have my recording. All I have to do is save it to the
file system here. I'm gonna head over to transistor, I'm going to
click new episode, and now I can upload my recording just by
clicking choose file, choosing that recording that I have
saved.
Click Save and Publish Now. And now my episode is published.
It's available. It's being distributed to Apple Podcasts
and Spotify and all the places where your listeners might
listen. If you wanna try Transistor, go to transistor.fm
and click on that "start 14 day free trial" button. Thanks!