Author: Matthew McLean

Most aspiring podcasters don’t just come up with one single idea for a podcast series. It’s a creative medium after all. Audio has limitless possibilities, and here’s also no gatekeepers to tell you what you can and can’t put out there. So, instead of just running one podcast, why not two or three? Many podcasters run multiple shows (successfully), so this absolutely can be done. But is it the right move for you? Not If You’re Just Starting Out If you’ve never run a single podcast series before, then there’s your starting point – run a single podcast series....

In recent years “batching” has become a household term in the podcasting realm. Batching is a productivity method. The concept is basically that it’s more efficient to create multiple episodes in one session than it is to create individual episodes in multiple sessions. It’s hard to argue with that. If you’re setting up and preparing to record just once, instead of five times, then that alone is going to save you a fair bit of time. But there’s always a danger of any one-size-fits-all approach in podcasting. Because many of the medium’s top (and most prolific) podcasters do it...