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How to Structure a Podcast in 10 Easy Steps

March 9, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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How to Structure a Podcast in 10 Easy Steps 1200 x1200Structuring a podcast episode is like any different artistic process: the unique elements must be accurate and flow to influence your audience. 

Podcast structure attributes your show’s composition, the course of its segments, and how you systematize each component to match collectively. 

So how do you structure a podcast in a system that holds people listening without losing your creativity and bizarre style? Here are the 10 easy steps:

#1. Adopt a podcasting setup

There are various podcast styles to prefer, and every one of them has a somewhat unconventional structure.

Before you choose a format, question yourself these proposals to make sure you prefer a way that is sustainable long-term:

  1. What’s the topic/genre of your podcast?
  2. Do you need to cover discrete segments within your show? If so, what sort?
  3. Do you favor to extemporize, talk with guests, or recited from a script?
  4. How frequently will you publish episodes, and how long do you crave them to be?

Once you have solutions to these topics, you’re able to favor a podcast setup. 

#2. An interview show

Most of the utmost podcasts highlight podcast interviews with a guest or specialist in your domain. Interview shows give you an eternal origin of the content, including delivering every episode unique.

You can examine visitors in person or record a podcast telephone call over Skype or Zoom and collectively choose the talk in Audacity (or your favorite editing software).

Genres: This setup acts for just on any non-fiction podcast

#3. A solo show 

structure a podcast A solo show image

Recording a podcast by yourself has pros and tricks, but it’s a transcendent advantage if you don’t want to bother about scheduling guests and experience sharing your philosophies undeviatingly to audiences.

Solely programs are simple to edit and take a shorter time to produce. The difficult element has plenty to say externally jumping off of a visitor or a co-host.

Genres: Self-help, spiritual, comedy, music, art, etc.

#4. A roundtable podcast

A roundtable podcast is ordinarily two to three terms as abundant as a regular podcast episode and features everywhere from three to ten callers.

The abundance of guests might vary each episode based on a specialist on that episode’s theme, so you hold some versatility.  

Genres: Gaming, technology, and long-form podcasts

#5. A show with multiple co-hosts

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Co-hosting with many people can be an enjoyable dynamic for a podcast. The difficulty with this form is noticing everyone collectively in one area, which is why most maximum programs with multiple co-hosts prefer to record long-distance across Skype, Zoom, or Google Hangouts.

Genres: comedy podcasts, beginner podcasters, and any show where you require bunches of ideas and critique

#6. Select on your episode time 

Establishing a time boundary for your show provides you with a primary basis to operate with, so you can combine segments and composition nearby it.

There’s no fixed course for how long a podcast use should be, and the time depends on your choice, genre, the regularity with which you deliver episodes, and how much experience you have to perform your show.

Structure a Podcast podcast length image

Episodes delivered weekly are 15-60 minutes lengthy, and monthly episodes are about 60-90 minutes long.

In common, it’s enough, to begin with, more diminutive episodes and extend the continuation of your show as you establish faith with your audience. Once listeners know you have useful content, they’ll be prepared to attend to longer episodes.

No matter how frequently you deliver episodes, we recommend having your episode time no longer than is required to get your information across.

#7. Design by formulating a podcast script 

Formulating a podcast script doesn’t indicate you have to read off a covering of paper or have a conventional, decorous show.

A podcast script can be anything from a table of bullet-points that encourage you to stay on course to a word-for-word talk.

A script or design can also ease you from breaking up your sections, contributing to a specific one, and introducing segues and sponsor advertisements.

 structure a podcast script image

Planning out a short outline can conserve your experience trimming out irrelevant content in post-production and provides you with a fundamental idea of how you want to create your episode.

It’s up to you how to compose your script/outline; the critical thing is to have a brilliant idea of your show’s run before you push record or interview your guest.

#8. Prepare your podcast interview 

A short preparation proceeds a great way toward producing your conversation sound seamless and smooth to the audience, and the more prepared you are, the more at comfort your guest will be.

Give fascinating time preparing your podcast interview run by writing down the topics you aspire to ask your visitor and how you’ll transition from one subject to the subsequent.

You can also give your guest your plan forward of experience to assure you’re both on the same page running in.  

Planning is a great piece of structuring your episode, but how can you take the components you’ve selected to apply and put them commonly to catch and retain your listener’s attention?

#9. Implement the basics of storytelling to your episodes

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Ultimately, what sets your show apart is its unique content, but incorporating the basics of storytelling helps form a chronological arc in your show, so you get your listeners on a compelling journey.

Implement this fundamental structure of a podcast to your content, despite your podcast’s style or format.

#10. Setup, delivery, and application

In setup, you have to build excitement and suspense and make your audience want to listen to the rest of the episode. In delivery, you have to inform, inspire, or excite your audience. In application, the purpose is to implement the content to your audiences and abstract the episode.

In conclusion, these are some of the 10 easy steps. By following these steps, you can structure a podcast and do podcast editing easily. We would love to know how helpful did you find the article

Ross Plotkin HeadshotAbout the Author: Ross Plotkin is a founder of Barevalue. A podcast editing company that offers podcast editing services and show notes writing services. He usually writes articles on the topic of podcasting such as tips, guides, and information that can be helpful for beginners and advanced podcasters.

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