The Rundown with Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson - Part I

Episode 3 of The Rundown Podcast features part one of a discussion of podcasting with two of my favorite podcasters – Shel Holtz (@shel) and Neville Hobson (@jangles) from the For Immediate Release series of podcasts. They recently released the results of their listener survey, which spurred a detailed discussion of podcasting past, present and future... 

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Show Notes

• 00:00 Face off
• 00:41 Welcome
• 01:33 Comments? Suggestions?
• 01:50 Segue
• 02:00 Welcome, again
• 02:20 Introduction of Neville and Shel
• 05:00 The FIR Listener Survey - why release the survey results?
• 07:29 Changes to The Hobson & Holtz Report?
• 08:20 Length
• 09:05 Podsafe Music – Really?
• 11:40 RSS vs. iTunes
• 13:49 iPod vs. iPhone
• 16:02 Conversation Rules
• 17:03 Podcast Stats - Downloads vs. Listeners
• 18:37 Is content still king? (eMarketer study Podcasting Into the Mainstream, March 2009)
• 21:07 Diversity in audience – why and how?
• 22:57 Podcast listenership
• 25:21 Break
• 25:30 Luke pimps these other podcasts:
  • Grizzly's Growls Episode 100 focused on podcasters benefitting from PR featuring Shel, Nevill and the Inside PR team of Jones, Fallis and Waxman.
  • Also, a great discussion on SEO in PR with Eric Schwartzman’s On The Record Online with Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan.

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