A lot of new/recent podcasts are looking for instant gratification and that's just not the way podcasting works. They assume that their following from other platforms will carry over and turn into money, but it's literally building from scratch and playing to another platform's algorithm. Sure having some notoriety will give you an initial leg up but fanbases in the podcast spaces are built on consistency and longevity. Most podcasts don't start seeing real money until around episode 500-600 and beyond. A lot of these people don't even make it to episode 50. And yea overhead counts; if you don't own the space you're paying for studio rental time, you're paying videographers or the studio to film, likely an audio engineer to make sure the audio is good and recording that. Then you're paying editors; cause you need a video edit and an audio edit, more angles mean longer edits. Not only does the main show need to be edited, it has to be clipped up into social media bites. There also needs to be a budget for ad spend to get clips in front of unreached audiences.
So if you're doing this for money and you're starting with no income, it's a money pit until it starts turning a profit, which again could take hundreds of episodes before it makes something helpful. But if you do the shit for the love of doing it, you're not stressing most of that, you'll film wherever's free and not really worry about how shit looks. People tune in cause you're having fun and over time they grow with you and the podcast and it'll snowball organically. A lot of people won't stick it out that long.
These people have millions of followers and can't get them to stream their music. It seems to only translate to athletes and that's mostly based around these gambling companies trying to get everyone addicted.
I remember Joe and Combat Jack both mentioned consistency being key.
I basically have a routine, because I can count on Joe's pod two times a week.
A bunch of these other pods do that season shit which makes no sense. This isn't a TV show.
They go on break for a week, a couple of weeks, a month. That's how I wonder how Mel is going to do. She's half assing it. You might get a pod this week, you might not. That's one problem with interview pods.
And even if you want outside investors they're going to want blah blah episodes a week. If you've never done it before....