Blending Listener Emotions For A Better Podcast [S3E65]

Every one of your episodes elicits some sort of emotional response from every one of your listeners. Intentional or not, every podcast evokes an emotional response. Even if the podcaster had no intention of doing so. It happens. We’re human The most common emotions or feelings elicited by podcast are feeling informed and feeling entertained. But neither of those, in isolation, is enough. If any podcast can make a listener feel either entertained or informed, why would listeners tell others about any particular podcast? Commodities are common, and common things are not remarkable. Luckily, podcasts don’t elicit a single emotional response from most listeners.  There’s https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/30/1702247114 (a fascinating study from 2017 that examines 27 distinct categories of emotion), which is a lot more than the basic emotional responses most people can list. (I highly encourage you to spend some time with thehttps://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/emogifs/map.html#modal ( interactive tool associated with that study to see how all of those emotions work together) when exposed to content.)  https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ (Hardcore History), Dan Carlin’s extremely popular and long-running podcast, is both informative and entertaining. You know, unlike your high school history class. Drew Ackerman knows he can’t force you to sleep when you listen to http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/ (Sleep With Me). But he can keep you entertained as you—hopefully—drift off to his creaky dulcet tones.  Horror podcasts won’t work as well if the people scared or creeped out by them weren’t also entertained.  And with https://podcastpontifications.com/ (Podcast Pontifications), I want to leave you with a contemplative feeling as I inform you about the concepts and ideas I bring forth on each episode. It’s not enough for me to dump an idea on you, so I ponder a concept in real-time with you, hopefully so it rubs off.  Here's your homework: Think about the two primary emotions you want to elicit with your episodes and write them a sticky note you’ll keep right next to where you do your episode prep. Let them act as a constant reminder of what you are trying to achieve with your episode. Stick with those for a few episodes and see how you feel. Measure your audience’s response if you can. If it’s working—you feel better and your audience isn’t running away—great! But if not, change it up! I’m a big fan of change, as you know. Like anything, it may take a few iterations before you hit on the right blend of emotional responses that sets your show(s) apart from the rest.  ----- Read the full article and share with a friend: https://podcastpontifications.com/episode/blending-listener-emotions-for-a-better-podcast (https://podcastpontifications.com/episode/blending-listener-emotions-for-a-better-podcast) https://twitter.com/evoterra (Follow Evo on Twitter) for more podcasting insights as they come. https://buymeacoffee.com/evoterra (Buy him a virtual coffee) to show your support. And if you need a professional in your podcasting corner, please visithttps://podcastlaunch.pro/ ( Simpler.Media) to see how Simpler Media Productions can help you reach your business objectives with podcasting. https://podcastpontifications.com/ (Podcast Pontifications) is published by Evo Terra four times a week and is designed to make podcasting better, not just easier.

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