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Not a Clip Show - Episode 100!
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:07:15
Publish Date: 2018-12-12 08:00:00
Description:

To celebrate episode 100, Wes and Scott are talking about Syntax - their most popular episodes, stats, Q&A, and a bunch of cool stuff about what it’s been like making this show for 100 episodes.

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Show Notes

1:45 - Celebrating 100 episodes

04:18 - Our first episode

06:23 - Our first sponsor

09:37 - Most popular episodes

21:35 - Top countries

  • Just passed 3 million downloads
  • 10 - Poland - 38,731 downloads
  • 09 - Brazil - 40,475 downloads
  • 08 - Netherlands - 47,601 downloads
  • 07 - India - 50,724 downloads
  • 06 - Sweden - 55,378 downloads
  • 05 - Australia - 80,654 downloads
  • 04 - Germany - 109,842 downloads
  • 03 - Canada - 138,250 downloads
  • 02 - United Kingdom - 231,835 downloads
  • 01 - United States - 1,220,519 downloads

27:34 - Top players

  • AppleCoreMedia
  • Overcast
  • Chrome
  • Pocket Casts
  • iTunes

30:35 - Lessons learned about sponsors

  • Pays the bills - editing, hosting, etc…
  • They want hard numbers
  • Conversions are hard to track
  • It’s really cool companies and users that enjoy the product hook up
  • How do we get them?

35:10 - Favorite episodes

38:49 - Q&A

  • Q: What’s your favorite soundboard sound?
  • Q: What’s your recording process like? Do you each record your streams locally then edit them together or are there any “hax” you guys have cooked up as developers?
    • A: Pay someone who is good at editing
    • We both have good recording gear
    • We record separate files and send them our production team, Podcast Royale, for editing
    • We do show notes in Dropbox Paper, which are also edited by Podcast Royale
  • Q: Does Scott practice his segues, or do they just come to him on the fly?
    • A: On the fly
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