Guides

If you're looking for a guide that walks you through how to start a podcast, you're absolutely in the right place…

Starting a podcast isn't difficult, but there are a number of steps you'll need to go through in order to get it launched.

In this podcasting tutorial, we'll walk you through every step of the process:

• Choosing a topic & name
• Show and episode format
• Cover art creation
• Intro & outro music
• Equipment selection
• Audio recording & editing
• Submission to Apple Podcasts (iTunes)
• Promotion tips

And much more…

Podcasting is a much less crowded and competitive space than blogging, making now the perfect time to get started.

As of September 2026, there are just over 2 million podcasts, but over 600 million blogs!

In case you're wondering, I've helped thousands of people start a podcast in the last several years and have started a few shows in different industries myself.

Looking to start a podcast quickly? Sign up with Buzzsprout, upload your audio files, and submit to Apple & Spotify.

Let's get started:

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We all love listening to the NPR style, story-driven, narrated podcasts. But how are they made? Find out how to write & produce a next-level show.

As more and more podcasts flood into our podcast apps, producing a show that stands out among the crowd to grow an audience is getting harder and harder.

The ‘find your niche' paradigm is shifting. Now that nearly every market vertical, subculture, and microcosm of Reddit has its own podcast, your show has to differentiate in some other way to cut through the noise.

One way to do that is to create something that goes beyond the simple interview format, something that is harder (but ultimately far more rewarding) to produce — a narrative podcast.

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