Podcast Marketing Trends Explained: Data-Driven Podcast Growth Strategies

How We'd Spend $500/$2,500/$10,000 to Grow Our Podcast (& the Lessons You Can Apply to Any Budget)

Mar 12, 2024

Discover how to maximize your podcast growth with budgets ranging from $500-$10,000 per month. Explore strategies like advertising, branding, audience engagement, and outsourcing. Learn how to allocate funds for production, marketing, and tools to achieve the best ROI for your podcast growth.

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Quick takeaways

Strategic allocation of budget across hosting, editing, and marketing enhances podcast quality and engagement.

Experimenting with targeted advertising on various platforms helps attract new listeners and improve ROI.

Investing in production quality, support services, and brand maintenance is vital for sustainable podcast growth.

Deep dives

Optimizing Budget Allocation for Podcast Growth

In the podcast episode, discussions are centered around optimizing budget allocation to enhance podcast growth. By analyzing data trends, it is suggested that shows with varying monthly budgets can achieve significant growth. Strategies are proposed for budget tiers like $500, $2,500, and $10,000 per month, emphasizing the importance of wisely distributing funds across hosting, editing, marketing, and support services to enhance the overall podcast quality and engagement.

Intro

2min

Analysis of Different Budget Tiers for Podcast Growth

20min

Exploring Paid Acquisition Strategies in Marketing

6min

Innovative Strategies for Audience Engagement and Data Collection in Podcasting

4min

Strategic Allocation of a $10,000 Budget for Podcast Growth

11min

Budget Allocation for Outsourcing in Podcast Production

4min

Strategies for Allocating a $2,000 Monthly Budget for Podcast Growth

15min

How to get the best ROI on your podcast production and marketing budget to maximize growth… whether it’s $100 or $10,000 per month.

You’re probably pretty confident that if you had more money to spend on your podcast, you’d be able to grow it faster.

But have you ever stopped to think about how you would spend it to get the greatest ROI?

Should you buy ads? Invest in better gear? Hire an editor or assistant?

In this episode, we break down our takes on where your podcast budget is best spent in order to grow the fastest.

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Topics Covered

00:00 Could we grow faster if we had more budget?
02:47 How much the average podcast spends on production & marketing
06:41 How much high-growth shows allocate to marketing
08:11 How we’d spend $500/month to grow
15:23 How we’d spend $2,500/mo to grow
27:23 How to figure out what brought people to your show
31:00 How we’d spend $10,000/mo to grow
38:03 Understanding your brand
50:24 Running retargeting ads to your podcast
52:33 How we’d grow our podcast with zero budget

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Resources

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