Podcasts Help You Reach People Anywhere, Any Time
When you record a video or write an article, you can only reach people who have the time to look at a screen to watch or read. Granted, most people are on screens for many hours a day, so that may sound fine to you. But do you know what’s even easier than looking at a screen? Listening to audio. After all, you can listen while you drive, clean, exercise, or even work—meaning that listening to podcasts is perfect for multitasking. So when you use podcasts as part of your content marketing strategy, there’s a good chance your audience will have more time to consume your content than they do with content methods that use a screen.
Podcasts Help You Grow Your Audience
When you create podcasts, you open up a whole new slew of publishing options compared to when you create videos and articles. Suddenly, you have access to major publishing platforms with millions of users, like iTunes, for example. Another place to put your podcasts is Spotify, which has over 75 million monthly users—giving you a much larger audience than you’d have if you stuck to videos and articles alone.
Podcasts Are Easy and Affordable to Make
If you’re already recording videos or writing articles—or hiring someone to create these types of content for you—you’ll be glad to know podcasts take less time and money. You just need a good microphone and software that lets you easily record and edit your podcasts, and then you can start talking about subjects that would interest your listeners. You don’t need a pretty background or even nice clothes like you might for a video, so for many marketers, podcasting feels like a no-pressure option for reaching an audience.
Podcasting Can Build Trust with Listeners
You want your audience to feel like they know you and like you, and this is easy when you make sure they can hear your voice on a regular basis. When they hear the passion and confidence in your voice as you discuss subjects that interest both you and them, they’re likely to realize you know what you’re talking about (don’t laugh, I’m serious). You’re knowledgeable and authentic, and that makes them want to listen more since you’re an authority on a subject and/or interviewing someone who’s an expert on a topic that they want to know more about. And that might lead them to not only listen to your podcasts, but also follow you on social media, visit your website, watch your videos, read your articles, and just generally engage with you on a regular basis. Any time your content marketing strategy leads to this result, you’re doing it right!
Podcasts Are Perfect for Networking with Other Subject Experts
You know how guest blogging is a recommended strategy to use in the world of written content? Well, inviting guests to speak on your podcast provides the same benefits. Not only do you get to expose your audience to other experts in your industry, but you also get a chance to meet people you can learn from. And networking is a major part of marketing! That’s especially the case when your guest podcasters promote the episode to their audience, since now you can reach even more people with your podcast.
It’s Good to Mix Up the Types of Content You Publish
Variety is the spice of life, and that applies to content marketing, too. You want to reach everyone who might be interested in what you have to say, discuss, or share, whether they feel like reading, watching, or listening. That means your content marketing strategy should include a mix of articles, videos, infographics, and podcasts. You should make your content as easy to consume as possible, and making it available in a variety of delivery methods will help with that.
Are you ready to add podcasts to your content marketing strategy? I think that once you dive in and get started, you’ll be glad you did.
More resources on this topic:
Everything You Need to Know About Starting a Podcast
6 Key Insights to Make Your Content Marketing More Effective
Shelly Kramer is a Principal Analyst and Founding Partner at Futurum Research. A serial entrepreneur with a technology centric focus, she has worked alongside some of the world’s largest brands to embrace disruption and spur innovation, understand and address the realities of the connected customer, and help navigate the process of digital transformation. She brings 20 years’ experience as a brand strategist to her work at Futurum, and has deep experience helping global companies with marketing challenges, GTM strategies, messaging develoment, and driving strategy and digital transformation for B2B brands across multiple verticals. Shelly’s coverage areas include Collaboration/CX/SaaS, platforms, ESG, and Cybersecurity, as well as topics and trends related to the Future of Work, the transformation of the workplace and how people and technology are driving that transformation. A transplanted New Yorker, she has learned to love life in the Midwest, and has firsthand experience that some of the most innovative minds and most successful companies in the world also happen to live in “flyover country.”
