How To Start A Podcast On YouTube (Complete YouTube Podcast Tutorial!)

This is how to

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a

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on YouTube. We'll show you the easiest way to get

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ed with YouTube

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s, covering everything from podcast setup to uploading, so you can get the most out of video podcasting on YouTube. Adding your podcast to YouTube is actually very simple, the whole process is just four steps and happens on a single screen, but before you do that, I'll explain how to plan your podcast, how to name it, how to describe it, and more, then we'll talk about the equipment you need. you need and it may be the equipment you already have lying around, we will finally explain how to plan to release discs and publish your first episodes and, if you already have some of this figured out, use the chapters below to advance to any section.

When you're ready and once your podcast is on YouTube, there's one more step you'll want to take and without it you could be losing 90% of your potential audience, so stay until the end and we'll do it. Make sure you cover that before you end up as host of two professional podcasts and consultant to many others. I'm often asked what you need to get a podcast on YouTube and you'll need a title, a description and then a thumbnail, although it's not a thumbnail in the way we think of them on YouTube, it's actually slightly different for a podcast on YouTube. and it's really good to figure these things out before you start thinking about equipment or anything else you might need, so essential first step. for any podcast is thinking about who your audience is and who you want to listen to your show after it's published.

One of the best things about podcasts is that you can reach really small niche audiences that aren't served by the media, so go figure. find out exactly who they are and what you're going to talk to them about next you need a title for your podcast what you're going to call it the best advice I can give you is don't overthink it and that's coming from someone who overthinks almost everything, however , there are a few key things to consider when titling your podcast, first make it easy to pronounce and spell so that sometimes people will listen to your podcast even if it's on YouTube without looking at the screen and if you send them somewhere to something related to the podcast or later they tell a friend about the podcast and they want to look it up, you want to make sure you don't have clever spelling or anything that's really hard to spell, so this is one of those cases where simple is really important, you also want it to be unique, don't choose the exact same podcast title that a lot of other podcasts already have, look for something that no one is using again, this will be very important if someone recommends your podcast and the person receiving the recommendation doesn't. you can find it in search because you don't know what show he was actually talking about.

According to Spotify, the average podcast title on their hosting service is 3 to four words or about 15 to 20 characters. They're easier to remember and recommend, so that's a very good reason to keep it tight and the podcast doesn't have to have or podcast in the title. My main podcast is actually called the Six Ways and part of the reason I named it was because Sixways Docomo Now, if you're having trouble with names, don't be afraid to use an AI tool like GPT chat to give you some ideas. Next, you'll need to write a description or summary, as it's called on Sun platforms, you know.

If you go to Netflix and a movie comes up, you'll read the description there to see if you want to watch it or not. This is the same for your podcast, it helps people decide if the podcast might be something they're interested in or not. Whether or not you think about what your ideal audience might search for on YouTube or a podcasting app, and include those words or phrases in your description, especially if they're not in the title of the podcast, for example, my podcast is for entrepreneurs, but that It's not in the title, so my description talks absolutely about entrepreneurship.

Then, be sure to include who the podcast is for, who the audience is, why they should listen to it, and what they will get out of listening to it, and if applicable, be sure to talk about why. You are now qualified to be the host of that podcast. You don't have to be an expert to be a podcast host. You might just feel really passionate about the topic, so don't feel like you have to have a PhD in whatever it is. It may be necessary to host the podcast, but any authority or credibility you have should be included in your description now for writers.

YouTube will give you up to 5,000 characters that you can use for your podcast description, but you want to keep it short enough. so someone will take the time to read it many times, three to four sentences is all you need, but you could have a couple of short paragraphs if you had important things to say and the last thing you need to make your podcast work is your cover or thumbnail, if you want to call it that, now here on YouTube the thumbnails are these wide right angles, but for a podcast it's actually Square, they're usually designed with 3000 by 3000 pixels, although the minimum is 1400 by 1400, but I always the error is too big because you just want the resolution to be as high as possible wherever you go.

It's important to remember that your thumbnail should have the title and then maybe an image, but not much else in the search. results, especially on a mobile phone, the thumbnail will appear very, very small, so it won't have any impact on Z if you can't even see what it is, so if you want to get an idea of ​​this, open the YouTube app. search for podcasts and just look and see what the thumbnails look like on the side and you will know how small this thumbnail will be displayed. Tools like Canva have templates as a starting point for creating your podcast cover design, so you don't necessarily have to hire a graphic designer to do it, in fact, as of this recording, when I looked, Canva had more than Thousands of different podcast cover templates to choose from.

Well, we know what your podcast will be and what the cover will look like. for example, let's talk about equipment, if you already have a computer to record your podcast, then you will only need two essential pieces of equipment first, a microphone, the quality of the audio for the podcast is really important because it is important that they can obviously hear what you have to say , but also if your audio is echoey, muddy or too quiet, people aren't going to sit back because there's so much content in the world now, they're just going to look for something else to listen to or watch now that we've put it together. a video of our three best podcast microphones for beginners linked on the screen right now or in the description of this video.

If you're looking for a recommendation, the second thing you'll need is, of course, a camera. Now it's the easiest thing to do. is to use a webcam that you already have now, if you have a computer with a built-in webcam, those tend not to be very good, so unless you have the only computer in the world with a very high quality webcam, I recommend you use something external, all it has to do is have at least a 1080p resolution. I've been using this LogiTech C920 for I don't know how many years, using it for my podcast among other things, so it doesn't have to be fancy or high quality. technology, the best part about using a webcam that is already connected to your computer is that when you are done recording your podcast, the files are already there, you don't have to transfer them or anything, now you will need software to record and We'll talk about that here momentarily.

Another option would be to use the built-in camera on your smartphone to record. In fact, if you can connect it directly to your computer, you can still record directly to your hard drive, but even if you can. You can still record directly to the phone either way, make sure you turn on Do Not Disturb so your recording isn't interrupted. One thing you will definitely need is a way to mount your tripod or mount your phone on a tripod or something like that. because already in this short period of time I may be out of shape but my arm is getting really tired from holding my phone up so you don't want to do it during a 15-30 minute podcast episode.

An important note if you are recording i.e. the video on your phone and the audio on your computer or some other device, you will have to sync the audio and video later with this software that we have today, it is actually relatively easy to do, but it's an extra. step, so if you can record both audio and video to the same source, that is always a better option to save time later, finally, if you have an external camera like a DSLR or some other type of camera that you record on video and record in at least 1080p, you can also use it to record your podcast again.

Ideally your audio and your video go to the same source, so if your camera is recording to your computer, try recording your audio in the same place if your video goes directly to the camera or to an SD card, then try connecting the microphone to the camera so you don't have to sync them later. However, I told him that all he really needs, besides the computer recording, is the camera and microphone. You might want some lights. The beauty of having lights is that you want a nice clear image for people who are watching your podcast on YouTube.

If it's a dark room and they can't see you anyway, it might as well be an audio podcast without video. If you want a lighting recommendation, check out the description below this video, but I also recommend setting it up in front of a window. Natural light is usually as good or even better than artificial lighting. You just want to make sure you time it so that maybe it's a nice cloudy day, so you get even light. You certainly can't record it late at night if you're using a window for light. Next, let's talk about the software you'll need.

The good news is that the software has become so easy to use and affordable and in some cases free, it is very easy to get started if you are recording a solo podcast, so only one person speaks into the microphone and camera, so we love to record directly in the description. The descriptor is also great for editing but you can record directly into a description and when you're done it's already there and then if you're also editing in a script you can use their awesome feature where you just edit the text or the transcript of what you said and will edit the audio and video to match, of course, try the free version of the script first to see if you like it Now if you plan to have more than one person on the podcast, either because you are interviewing guests or because you have a co-host and they are in a different location than you, then you will want special software that actually records the audio and video on both ends, so for example, if you were my co-host and I was here and you were wherever you recorded, you can use a tool that records your video and audio to your local hard drive.

Mine would record my video and audio to my local hard drive and then both would sync to the cloud. The reason this is so surprising. This is because otherwise, if you're just recording traditionally, like with a Zoom call, and I was recording on my end, your video and audio would be compressed, maybe distorted, or crash depending on how loud it was. your Internet signal, how fast it was and how often. They have been buffered or deleted, so if you are recording remotely with someone else to get the highest recording quality, we recommend using a tool like Streamyard Riverside.

FM or script actually now includes Squadcast, which does the same thing, so there are a lot of options there which we'll link to all of them below. Well, let's talk about editing your podcast if you have an editing tool that you already love for videos. It means using it, you don't need to learn anything new, but if you don't, I can't recommend the Squadcast descript combo enough, not only can you do the remote recording, but I edit all my podcasts in Descript and it's super fast, it has all the tools. I need it, we've planned your podcast, we've looked at the equipment you'll need and then maybe some you want.

Now let's talk about how to plan your actual episodes so you have a show that people can watch. Don't wait to listen or watch, plus the way I like to do it cuts down on editing time a lot. My first recommendation before recording a single second is to come up with ideas for 20 episodes for your new show. Now I say it with nothing but love, but with success. The podcast could easily go over 100 episodes and if you don't come up with ideas for 20 episodes before you start you'll have a hard time getting to 100, don't worry about using AI or GPT chatting or anything to cheat. and I will help you get other ideas.

In fact, it's not cheating. I highly recommend you do it. You just want to know that you'll have plenty to talk about before you get started. Now, in a perfect world, your ideas and episode titles will be topics or questions that people are searching for, so we recommend that you use websiteslike answerthepublic.com or a tool like Tube Buddy, which we love, to research what you are going to talk about and also the title you are going to title. episodes because if your episode can be picked up and searched and then rank high in YouTube or Google rankings, you will get a lot more eyes and ears on your episodes and before you announce that your podcast is live anywhere.

I highly recommend that you have at least three episodes uploaded and ready to go. This does two things: the first is that it will give you an idea of ​​how the episode will flow around a few different topics, sometimes if you only record one and everything goes well. then you run into some kind of problem with the second one, so three is a good number, but most importantly, you announce to the world here's my new podcast and they go there and there's an episode and the topic doesn't fit them , they're gone and they won't be back next week when you ask again, but if they show up and there are three episodes and at least one of them seems interesting, then they'll watch it if they like it, they'll listen to another one and I always say that binge-watchers are buyers, but binge-watching applies to a lot of things if you have three episodes in your first week and someone loves all three, they'll follow them, subscribe, and tell their friends.

One episode is often not enough to make someone fall in love. I love your podcast, so that's another great reason to have more than one on launch day. Now it's time to upload and publish your new podcast. If you've already created a YouTube channel, you're ready for the next step if you have. We've included a

tutorial

on how to create a YouTube channel in the description below this video, so we'll go to

youtube

.com to get started and click on my profile picture here in the top right corner. and click YouTube Studio as a shortcut, you can also go to the studio.

youtube

.com then in the top right corner, we'll click on this create button and then new podcast, so in this popup you have some options at the bottom, you can submit an RSS feed and what this does is If you have your podcast as an audio podcast on another host, you can automatically add them to YouTube; however, this is not what we recommend because basically what you will be doing is putting your podcast audio on YouTube with just a static image and no video which is not a great YouTube experience, the middle option is setting up an existing playlist like a podcast because podcasts on YouTube are playlists but we're creating a new one so we're going to use this first option to create a new podcast so click on that and again here's the screen that we showed you at the beginning with basically the four things you need first: You'll need your title, so I'll just use my podcast as an example, it's called The Six Ways with Jerry Potter.

I'll leave them there. You have up to 150 characters here to use in your title. Next, you will paste the description you wrote, or if you haven't written it yet, you can write it. While you're here live to get some tips on how to do it, be sure to go back to the beginning of this video where we told you exactly what needs to be included in your description. Next is visibility. Do you want this to be public? private or unlisted now, if you want this to be found you'll obviously want to make it public, if it's not ready yet you just want to turn it on and see what it looks like for yourself then you can certainly choose that private option and then finally your thumbnail , a square image that represents your podcast, so go ahead and add the cover that you created and there's mine, so let's hit the create button and publish it, so now here's the podcast screen, but Of course, There is no content here, so the next thing you would do is add videos.

If I click on the blue button in the center here, it will give me the option to choose existing videos or upload new videos if you already have them. You have videos on your channel that you want to be part of your podcast. Of course, you would choose that second option in the section, but I want to follow the process of uploading new videos just to show you the important settings for podcasts once you upload your video. You'll come to this screen here where we enter all the details, so the first thing you'll enter is the title of your episode.

By default, it will show what the name of the file you uploaded was if necessary. change it, change it right here, remember this is where you want to put a title that people are searching for, if you have something that makes sense with the episode, next is the description, so this is where you can enter up to 5,000 characters to tell it to people. all about it, if you've ever heard of the podcast show notes, this is where you would go, so you might want to tell people about the episode, where they can get more information, links to information about your guest At a minimum, I would write two sentences so that the description at least gives someone an idea of ​​what the episode will be about, so again you could add everything you need, including links and other things like that.

Next is the thumbnail and after your video is processed you will be able to choose a thumbnail based on a few things that YouTube recommends here, but the thumbnail is very important because it is what makes people decide whether or not they are going to click on the video. episode if they are recommended on YouTube, so I always create a custom thumbnail, so I'll grab it from my hard drive and upload it right there. Note that earlier we talked about thumbnails for podcasts in general, they are square, but these thumbnails are for the video part. on YouTube for each episode and are wide or horizontal.

Next, you are going to choose the playlist now again. YouTube podcasts are playlists, so you put them in a playlist, that's how YouTube knows it's part of your podcast, so by default. Because we just created this podcast, it should be preselected here, but if I click on this dropdown you'll see all the different playlists on my channel and so you can see that these here have a designated podcast, so than this one that says six. ways I think it's actually my main podcast, this is the one we just created for this

tutorial

, but now you get the idea below, of course YouTube videos have tons of other settings and we have a lot of videos here on the channel Primal videos on how to load and optimize properly, a very popular thing in podcasts is to say, "Hey, if you like that episode, you might also like this episode, so the way we can make it even better in YouTube is using the end screen feature during the In the last 20 seconds of your podcast episode, you can recommend one or two more episodes and then link to them directly on the screen, which creates a really great user experience and then they can listen or watch your next episode now.

There's one more important thing you need to know to make sure you don't miss out on 90% of your potential audience and I promise we'll cover it right before we get to that, although I want to show you how to share your podcast on YouTube. that you can promote it, so here in YouTube Studio I'm on the content tab here and then up at the top, I'm going to click on podcast. You won't see this until you create your podcast, but once it's there, I can click. in podcasts, here's my main podcast, the public. I can click on these three dots here where it says options get a share link and that will copy the link to share the entire podcast wherever you want, now go back to the main content tab in the videos tab here.

If I want to share a specific episode, I find the episode I want to share, so let's find the one with Justin Brown from the Primal video. I click on the three dots again to get the share link, same thing, I'll copy it to the clipboard and upload your podcast. to YouTube like we did today you could be losing up to 90% of your potential audience because this will put your podcast on YouTube, which is great. YouTube is huge, as is the YouTube music app, but it won't include it. Spotify Apple Podcasts or all the other popular podcast apps where people listen to audio podcasts, so if you want that you'll also need to upload your podcast to a separate podcasting host, if you already have one you should be good to go. but otherwise, for maximum distribution, you'll want to find one of those and we've included some links to help you with that below in the description of this video.

The world of podcasting is amazing and is only growing to help you. Two more videos linked on the screen may be helpful to you, one is how to turn your YouTube videos into shorts and another is how to edit in Des script, which applies to podcasts and videos. There is also a link to my channel if you would like to join me. there and subscribe. I make all kinds of content on content marketing for entrepreneurs, including podcasts, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and more, and as always, there are a ton of resources in the description of this video below, so check them out for more help and I will see. you in the next video