Podcasting’s most familiar destination, “wherever you get your podcasts,” needs replacing in calls-to-action. If ‘wherever’ no longer serves, how should creators point audiences in the right direction? Edison Research SVP Tom Webster has three answers to fit the shifting landscape of platforms and listening habits.
The first is to point to your fully equipped website. The second is to keep the old CTA, backed up with a real presence on every platform — including YouTube. The third and most effective: Prepare slightly different versions of your show for each platform. Why? If someone is listening, “you know where they ‘got your podcast.’”
From RSS-driven apps to Spotify, the ideal CTA will cater specifically to that platform’s audience. Those audiences behave differently from one another, and aren’t likely to migrate. If this sounds like a lot of work, Webster has another suggestion: “Isn't this one of the real promises of dynamic ad insertion technology?”
What happens when a programmatically inserted ad clashes with the brand of a show? When the sponsor is such an inappropriate fit that it feels like an impossible oversight, considering the money involved? On Thursday, the hosts of Gimlet’s beleaguered hit Reply All revealed a certain weak spot of the mass ad-buy.
This points to a powerful assumption we don’t make about TV, writes Nick Hilton of UK podcast company Podot. “I expect a relationship between show and advertiser in podcasting that I don’t in any other medium.” He discusses polarization, loss of creator control, and who, if anyone, will attempt to draw boundaries.
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