Making Money From Podcasts

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I am not a good talker, but I am very interested in podcasting. I have a website and I would like to publish podcasts on my website. I am not sure if I can actually make money by publishing podcasts on my websites but I believe I can build traffic to my websites through podcasts.

How to Make Money From Podcasts

A podcast is an audio or video recording on a certain topic that a user can download and listen to on his personal device. If you are a speaker with great oratory skills but are not comfortable showing your face in the video, you can make podcasts. Podcasting is basically for those who do not want to make video content, or cannot make video content but want to benefit by producing audio content. And, yes, just like people make money from their videos, you can also make money from your podcasts.

First of all, you need to record a podcast. Professional podcasters have their own recording studio, but you can start small, you can use your own mobile device to record your audio and then use an audio editing program to remove the background noise, add background scores, etc.

If you are starting out I suggest you try a program called Podcastle. This program allows you to record a podcast and also edit your podcast without the necessity of a recording studio or complicated sound editor. You can use the service through their website podcastle.ai, iOS app, or Chrome browse extension.

Once your podcast is ready, you can publish it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, TuneIn, Podchaser, or even YouTube.

Normally, you will earn per download, but you can also earn from affiliate ads and sponsorship, and subscription

Podcasting on Youtube

I think Youtube should be the ideal choice for publishing podcasts and making money from your podcasts. First of all, it is free to use, secondly, you have a lot of monetization options, you can use Adsense, and integrate subscription-based monetization solutions like Patreon, sponsorship, affiliate sales, etc. Youtube is basically a video sharing platform but the best thing about publishing podcasts on youtube is you can directly publish the audio files, you don’t even have to make your podcast as a video file.

Where to Publish Your Podcasts and Make Money

The most popular podcast publishing platform is Apple Podcasts. It was formerly called iTunes. You will earn 70 percent of the subscription fee. Since this is the most used audio streaming service, you have a huge potential to make money from Apple Podcasts. Apart from the subscription fee, you can also give a shout-out to advertisers and earn from sponsorship to promote affiliate products and make money.

There are also a lot of platforms to publish podcasts and make money.

Not popular as Apple Podcasts, but Acast, a podcast hosting platform is also the best solution for building an audience and making money from Podcasts. Acast offers a monetization solution for podcasts.

Podbean offers a free podcast hosting solution as well as monetization of your podcast. You can also directly record your podcast on Podbean.

If you have a blog or a website, if your blog or website receives a lot of traffic, if your blog/website has a lot of subscribers, you can also publish podcasts on your own blog/website and earn per download. The best thing about using your own website for podcasting is you have full control over your content.

Google Podcasts is free to use service, it is available on iOS, Android, and the web. Just like with Apple podcasts, you can also make money from Google Podcasts through a subscription fee, sponsorship, and affiliate sales. You can use Patreon to monetize your Google Podcasts. Actually, you can use Patreon with other services as well.

Libsyn is another great option to publish podcasts and make money from your podcast. It not only distributes podcasts but also videos and PDF documents.              

SoundCloud is a free-to-use audio streaming platform. However, you can make money from your podcast through subscription and sponsorship

Last but not least Spotify is also one of the best channels for podcasts because it is one of the largest streaming services for audio files. This platform has 236 million free users and 180 million paying users. Imagine how much potential you have on Spotify to make money from your podcast.

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