Keep Your Audience Listening To Your Podcast

Control over Quality, Topic/Genre and Voice makes a podcast work.

Frederik Verhagen
3 min readApr 29, 2024
Infographic put together with CoPilot.

Over the past months, I’ve been working on podcasts as an Audio Editor. With my multimedia degree and a fondness for well-told audio fiction, I welcomed the opportunity when it presented itself. I’ve poured many hours into making the three shows produce sound great, though it comes with its own hiccups.

When I’m not working on my podcasts, I listen to other fictional podcasts while doing chores or drive long distances. Sometimes I like to try something new, but it doesn’t always stick with me. Considering what it takes to keep me hooked onto any podcast, I’ve come up with this triangle infographic.

You might be familiar with the “Time,” “Money,” and “Quality” infographic, informing you that, in order to make a business decision, the client picks whichever two are most important to them, so you can adjust your project to the client’s need. My infographic works in a similar fashion.

The last fiction podcast I listened to I chose for its interesting topic: A near-future sci-fi set during a second oil age. The quality was great and something I expected from an iHeartRadio original podcast. The production choices, however, stood out as the deal-breaker for me and many others who left a…

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Frederik Verhagen
Frederik Verhagen

Written by Frederik Verhagen

Stay-at-home father and dork who writes about creativity, science fiction, and little discoveries in life. 🔗 bumblebearcreations.carrd.co

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