In my free time, I like to produce my podcast. I call my podcast Doing the Most With Vago. The best way to describe it is a mix of old time radio and modern day irreverence. The topics that are covered by the show are often niche or otherwise unusual aspects of news, politics, history and the sciences. Oftentimes, I get my friends to co-host with me. They often bring in a few of their own topics and stories. Each episode is about an hour to an hour and a half, with complete introduction and credits sequence. The show is almost completely off the cuff, I only write down some of the topics that I want to talk about in the episode. So far, I only use audio with some pictures used added during editing. The main problem that is facing my podcast …show more content…
I need to expand my audience and I need to get my content more out in the open. I have a few ideas of how I am going to do this. First step in the plan after implementing video is to produce flashy video introductions. This will allow me to have nicer looking “thumbnails” for the videos on YouTube. A thumbnail is the picture of the video on YouTube. A lot of successful YouTubers tend to use flashier thumbnails, so I plan on emulating that. Next, I will start to go into controversial topics to attract viewers. This is a slight modification, as I already do talk about controversial topics, but I do not make any special mention of them in the title or the video description. After I do that I plan to start a guerrilla marketing campaign on various social media sites. Obviously, using throwaway accounts. I plan on using websites like Reddit and Tumblr to do that. Accounts are easy to make and those websites have a lot of traffic. By making controversial stories the main focus, people will be more likely to click on the video. For me, that is all I really want. I plan on learning how to look contraversal from the masters at Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is best described as modern day yellow journalism; pure click-bait garbage. Buzzfeed is really good at making controversy out of nothing, something that will help my show get views. By following this …show more content…
That is how I know when to change things, and when to keep them the way that they are. The Twitter account will be a great source of feedback, as it is the most instantaneous and personal social media. The comments on the videos are also a great source of feedback, because they often tell me what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong. I think that Twitter will come in handy for feedback the most, out of my other new additions. My overall vision for my new internet presence is a far more visually appealing one. I realize that most of the people who listen to me are used to visuals rather than pure audio. I plan on more social media to connect myself to my audience and to attract more people to watch my videos. Using methods learned from click-bait journalism I hope to create some controversy to get attention drawn to my show. I believe that if I follow this plan, I can make my podcast get some more views and improve my internet