Category: Lists

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5 Strategies for Enticing Audiences to Try Fiction Podcasts

Elena Fernández Collins March 4, 2020

When we’re discussing the hurdles facing podcasting as a whole, the buzzword “discoverability” gets thrown around without a ton of specification. The truth is that podcasting has problems with discovery on multiple levels, starting with the macroview and issues like …

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5 Podcasts Keeping Me Afloat in a Sea of Trash

Elena Fernández Collins October 16, 2019

Okay, so: the world is garbage as far as the eye can see. Like, I look to the horizon and I’m pretty sure it’s just a dumpster on fire and that’s not just the impending and ongoing doom of climate …

Best in Podcasting for 2018

Elena Fernández Collins December 31, 2018

Not to just keep repeating myself, but 2018 has been the longest decade I’ve ever experienced, up to the point where a couple of my choices on the best of lists were placed after I realized “wait, that came out …

5 Podcasts I Escaped the Garbage Fire of Reality with This Week

Elena Fernández Collins October 24, 2018

I’ve been attempting to write reviews, and how-to articles, and my thesis for a long time, but I keep getting bogged down by the news, by the state of my homeland and the United States, and by trying to find places …

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13 Podcasts to Spook You on Your Way to Halloween

Elena Fernández Collins October 19, 2018

We are more than midway through October and what I sometimes jokingly call ‘Halloween-month’. In fact, there are thirteen days left right now! I’m a ‘spooky content all year round’ kind of person, Halloween notwithstanding; in fact, I’m not really …

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Six Podcast Episodes that Left Their Mark

Elena Fernández Collins September 26, 2018

You know the story. How does it go again? Someone’s having a hard time, the world seems empty, media becomes difficult to consume—until along come podcasts. It’s not that this is a boilerplate tale, but more that podcasting has come …