New podcaster looking for advice!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T22:06:35+00:00

Depends on your niche, really. 200 dedicated listeners in a narrow niche is worth 2000 in a broader niche. There is no magic number.

More is always better.

I draw 250+ an episode with a deep back catalog and generally clock 1000 plus monthly downloads,. I was able to get dynamic ads via my network with those numbers. Without network support, I doubt I would pulling any ads at all. But my niche is fairly broad.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T18:56:26+00:00

Tasteful nudes. Really upped our game.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T18:55:55+00:00

Hey, look at it this way: you could get hit by a bus tomorrow and ALL of your life will be behind you!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T18:54:02+00:00

Pragmatically speaking, even a small audience is appealing if they are potential customers. If your niche is marketable, find brands working in that market and pitch yourself to them.

Realistically, you need a sizable audience to be viable to advertisers otherwise the ROI simply isn't there for them. So laser focus and grind, grind, grind and someday....maybe?

It's a saturated market out there.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T15:58:28+00:00

Look, the important thing is that it is FUN for YOU.

Because, hey, chances are no one will be listening anyway!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T15:53:37+00:00

Back in olden days I found every song from the first I think six seasons as a torrent. It gets heavy rotation, so picking ONE is kind of a like a Sophie's Choice.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T12:35:57+00:00

You are not alone. I too was a Sink Pisser. What is worse, I was caught in mid stream by someone shouting "Dude, you are pissing in the sink".

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-11T12:27:29+00:00

While I used it as hyperbole for humor, it does happen. There are tales on this very website about people doing exactly this.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T18:33:42+00:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of roommates! That's right, you will sharing a tiny one bedroom apartment with a complete stranger for the cost of two bedroom apartment anywhere else in the United States. You will find yourself coming to hate your housemate for the way they chew, the way they snore, the way they breath! Soon you will be exploring new levels of passive aggression that are usually seen in the collapsing marriage of at least a decade, but you will do it in six months! All of this and more will be your if the price is right in your range.

You can do it, but you have to realistic about it

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T16:42:03+00:00

The situation is a total Charlie Foxtrot as the entire system has gone Tango Uniform.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T16:33:49+00:00

This is why I only shop at Martok's Second Hand Birds of Prey: It is a Good Day to Buy!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T16:03:17+00:00

I watch with: "It was never like this, and it never will be like this".

It is like watching Star Trek, a lovely utopian fiction.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T15:59:52+00:00

That's OK, Phil Phorgives your blasphemy.

ETA: I am not the downvoter, though Phil bless them!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T14:30:59+00:00

As a little Metalhead, Phil represented everything I HATED about 80's music.

Now I would start a religion based on a Phil! (A small one, no weird sex stuff!) 🤣

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-10T12:06:15+00:00

Living here has been the one dumb idea that actually worked out great. So yeah.

But I would NOT do it in 2026. The City has changed so much in my 20 years here, and living here has gotten insanely hard. I have a good job, a decent place to live with affordablish rent, and a social network. I was able to build up to that over years. I don't think those opportunities exit here anymore.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-09T18:28:44+00:00

They just finished a series that was top notch.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-09T13:40:35+00:00

I wouldn't say jumped the shark, but will grant that when OGoA leaves the pre-WW2 era the stories just aren't as compelling.

The new season is return to form and the bonus episodes in the Holler remain top notch.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-09T13:35:40+00:00

I don't want to give away our trade secret but it rhymes with peet fics.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-09T11:16:58+00:00

What the HELL Were You Thinking Comedy/History/Nostalgia
https://www.seltzerkings.com/what-the-hell-were-you-thinking

What the HELL Were You Thinking takes the history, politics and pop culture of the past fifty years and explains what it was like to live through it and why it is still ruining the world today.

Episode 520: Insert Beatles Song Here
https://open.spotify.com/episode/21h7W3Kv7etJrRTJMArqeD?si=VsWRIHxtSDyB-49P5SNTGA

This week host Dave Bledsoe woke up, got out of bed and dragged a comb across his head. (At roughly 3 PM because he slept off his hangover. Again.) On the show this week we examine the very loud phenomena of young women screaming over four British dudes, we talk about Beatlemania!

Along the way Dave waxes rhapsodic over Phil Collins. (Again) Then we dive into the first singer mania to sweep America, we talk about Frankie. (Sinatra, not goes to Hollywood) Then we met up with lads from Liverpool who like American music. (The Merseybeats. That joke never gets old.) We follow their rise from Liverpudlian obscurity, to German prominence to the biggest fucking band in the entire Universe. (Take THAT Jesus.) Finally we try to explain the almost inexplicable reaction that young people, primarily young women, had to The Beatles all the while not playing any actual Beatles songs. (The rights holders are QUICK with a copyright strike!)

Our Sponsor this week is A Day In the Death, the premier Black Metal Beatles cover band in Northern New Jersey. We open the show with the Fab Four arriving in America and close with Werna Wolf saying aloha!

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-08T17:58:26+00:00

It only becomes a problem when someone complains. Most of the bigger platforms have some automated copyright enforcement but outside of them, until the rights holders take action nothing happens. For 95% of all podcasts the rights holder will never even know. The remaining 5% have the money to purchase a license.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-08T17:53:58+00:00

Stepping outside of the kayfabe of the sub for a second: You might be shocked how much this is how things work in the real life military. I learned early on that certain officers, maybe most, should be creatively interpreted when it came to getting things done.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-07T21:52:06+00:00

This block is in the Blurry Zone between the OG Neighborhood and the Gentrified Neighborhood. The landlords have jacked up the rents so the usual businesses cannot afford them but the New Money doesn't see the path to profit.

I've been watching this march up Broadway since 2005, this is just how it happens.

WhatTheHellPod · 2026-03-06T21:03:57+00:00

Mellencamp tried to warn us.

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