Daily(ish)

I’m talking mostly to my YouTube subscribers in this episode about why I’m now posting daily video versions of this podcast on a channel that’s historically been tutorials about podcasting, video editing, and live streaming. I’m going to keep making tutorial videos, but I’d love feedback in the YouTube comments if this new mix is confusing or making you consider unsubscribing.

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00:00 Welcome
00:13 YouTube Channel Shift
01:22 Playlists and Subscriber Concerns
02:28 Daily Podcast Goal
02:38 Descript Workflow
03:20 Algorithm Experiment
04:06 Feedback From Subscribers
04:48 Riverside Editing Detour
05:06 Transistor Video Plans
06:05 Questions and Contact
06:29 Subscribe and Sign Off

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Chris
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What is Daily(ish)?

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

Hello, and welcome to
Dailyish for September 27th.

It's a Sunday.

I'm recording an episode every
day for this, my 50th year on the

planet, or at least attempting to.

Uh, something I wanted to talk about
today, uh, was kind of like addressed

to the YouTube folks since I've
been putting the videos on YouTube.

I've just noticed on my channel,
which was previously to this

point has been primarily…

I mean, I dabbled in various
ideas over the years with it.

It's a channel I've had
for 10-plus years, I think.

and but it's mainly been like tutorials
on podcasting, tutorials on video

editing, tutorials on live streaming
using Twitch and YouTube Live and,

Ecamm Live software to stream with
and OBS and all that kind of stuff.

And, uh, this podcast that I'm doing
now, I'm putting video versions

on YouTube, which I think is a
good use for YouTube in general.

It's a good way to put video
versions of podcasts, if you're

doing that already, on YouTube.

But it's also kind of detracting
maybe from why someone might have

subscribed to my YouTube channel.

And that's kind of what I was worried
about might happen, is that people

would wanna, would unsubscribe
'cause they don't wanna see my face.

I mean, they don't wanna see my face
in the video podcast thing every day

talking about random stuff each day,
and it's never or rarely going to be

possibly like, you know, here's how to
do this with Audio Hijack or here's how

to do this with, Ecamm Live or whatever.

I guess I hope for folks who can,
who are subscribed to my channel,

and I hope YouTube is smart enough to
know about this, like I have all the

videos for this podcast in a separate
playlist labeled as a podcast playlist.

And so the regular videos,
tutorials, and stuff, I'm still

putting some of those out.

You may not have seen them 'cause the
algorithm just depends whether they w-

it wants to show them to you or not.

But there's been a couple I've
put out this last week even.

And so that's still gonna happen from
time to time when I w- have an idea or

inspi- inspired to make some tut- tutorial
video about podcasting and related

activities on the Mac in particular.

But, um, obviously this being a daily
thing is going to kind of overwhelm

the amount of content on my feed.

I think I, I'm sure I don't have
365 videos on my YouTube channel as

it is, and so this year alone I'll
be doing daily episodes of these.

If most of them end up on YouTube,
then that'll be like half of what

my content is on my YouTube channel.

So all this to say, don't be
worried if you're on YouTube.

I'm not going anywhere as far as
the tutorial videos and stuff, but

I apologize for maybe surprising
you if you didn't know why I'm doing

this suddenly on my YouTube channel.

I'm aiming to…

I turn 50 this year, and I'm aiming to try
and record a podcast episode every day.

Originally, I started just
doing audio only back in the

first episode of this series.

And since I'm using Descript,
which is another tool I talk about

in some of my tutorial videos,
uh, it records the video already.

I edit in Descript quickly because
I can do the text-based editing and

use a little bit of AI to help with
some chapter markers and, and things

like that, and, uh, then publish
straight from Descript to YouTube.

It feels kind of painless on
my end anyways to publish to

YouTube since I have that already

And so while I won't necessarily be
putting any serious visual flourishes to

make it super interesting on the YouTube
version of the, of the recording, uh,

I th- I thought it would be a good test
anyways of how well YouTube works to put

a podcast playlist on a channel alongside
other content and see what happens.

I have to imagine the algorithm on
YouTube is gonna be confused 'cause, like,

yesterday's video was, or two days ago
video, sorry, was me talking with Matt

about U2 and that has almost nothing to
do with the rest of my channel's content.

But that video is performing better
than some of the other stuff where

I have talked more podcasting
specific things on the channel

So in all of my readings lately in terms
of YouTube and the algorithm, it generally

tries to find a space for a piece of
content, a, a video or a podcast episode

video on YouTube, and push or not that
single piece of content irregardless

of what else is on the channel.

But I feel like for subscribers, it
has to be a little bit of a weird

mix, 'cause obviously if you're
subscribed to my channel, you're

gonna get a lot more videos from me
that aren't tutorials, like I said.

But what I'd love to hear from you
folks, if you are out there subscribed

to my channel and you're getting
these videos and you're not really

happy that you're getting these
videos and tempted to unsubscribe,

fair play if you wanna unsubscribe.

I'm not gonna try and fight you on that.

But I would love to hear from you in
the comments on YouTube if you are

suddenly seeing more of my face but not
the kind of stuff you were subscribed

for, or you're just confused as to what
I'm doing here, but curious because it

will kind of be podcast adjacent, and
I'm, am learning a lot about processes

of editing, publishing on a consistent
basis, and I'm gonna be trying different

tools and using different systems to
publish episodes from time to time, as

I did with the, uh, interview I did on
Friday's episode with Matt talking U2.

We used Riverside to actually
have the conversation.

I edited it in Descript, but then
Descript did some sort of weird

garbling with the audio, and I s-
didn't know why, what happened exactly.

And so I went back and actually edited
it with Riverside's editor this time and

published out of Riverside into YouTube as
well as to the podcast feed on Transistor,

where I host the audio version.

In addition, at some point I'll
probably check out Transistor has

publish video version to Transistor,
and then it'll take care of publishing

it to YouTube and everywhere else,
and also allows people to subscribe

and play it in video or audio form.

So at some point I'll probably flip
that switch on with Transistor and

just try going directly through
Transistor to all the spaces as

well, which is a neat feature
they're be- beta testing right now.

if you are a Transistor customer,
you can, sign up for the mailing list

to be notified when that goes live
Which coincidentally, I published a

video on my YouTube channel just this
week talking about how Transistor

lets you embed YouTube videos inside
your podcast episode page, which

is what I'm doing with this show.

And so even if you wanted to have a
YouTube video but not make it public on

your YouTube channel, like I initially
did with this series, you can have it

unlisted on YouTube and then embedded
on your Transistor's episode page,

which I think is a really neat touch
for having sort of a private video

feed if you want for your podcast, but
still be focused obviously on audio as

the primary vehicle for your podcast.

all that being said, if you have
any questions about podcasting

in general still and you're on
YouTube, I'd love to hear them.

You can reply to any of the
episodes as they go out.

If you have a question about
how I did something, why I did

something, I'd love to hear it.

But always feel free to reply on
the post on social media where I

told you about this episode as well,
if you see this on Threads or Blue

Sky or, uh, Mastodon or wherever.

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chris.enns@gmail.com.

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Thank you for listening.

I hope you'll be back tomorrow.

Have a great day.

Bye.