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🎙️ Hosted by Lauren Schnipper and Josh Cohen
⏱️ Episode length: 30 minutes
📚 Topics: Social media space, creator economy
🪑 Guests: Often
📅 Release frequency: 4 episodes/month
Creator Upload discusses the big-picture elements of the social media world, content creation, and the creator economy. This podcast is great for staying on top of the latest developments in popular social media networks and understanding their impact on content creation in general. From time to time, they talk about these things with high-profile guests who offer very interesting insider points of view. Ideal for strategic-minded listeners who like to look at things from above.
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🎙️ Hosted by Jay Clouse
⏱️ Episode length: 1 hour or 5 minutes
📚 Topics: Content creation, creator economy
🪑 Guests: Often
📅 Release frequency: 6 episodes/month
In this podcast, you can hear interviews with all the online creators you look up to and follow. Jay's questions are always very pointed and direct, which prompts the guests to share the core of their knowledge. If you ever felt that the podcast guest wasn't asked the most important question you'd love to hear the answer to, it won't happen here. Apart from the guest interviews, you can listen to Jay's Voice Memo episodes, where he shares his own thought-provoking insights. This podcast is also very good at covering all angles of content production, so whatever you're interested in, you'll almost certainly find it addressed in Creator Science.
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🎙️ Hosted by Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
⏱️ Episode length: 1-2 hours
📚 Topics: Social media space, life stories of key players
🪑 Guests: Often
📅 Release frequency: 3-4 episodes/month
If you want to know what the best of the best in the creator world think, Colin and Samir will help you with that. They interview the most high-profile people in the social media sphere - CEOs of social media giants like Snapchat or Instagram and biggest influencers like Mr. Beast. They explore the social media world from a broader perspective, and with popular creators, they also discuss their life journey and experiences that come with the job. The episodes certainly contain many content creation-related gems, too, so have your notebooks ready. If you also like to watch what you listen to, their video production quality is great.
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🎙️ Hosted by Travis and Jen
⏱️ Episode length: Under 1 hour
📚 Topics: Everything YouTube, Q&A
🪑 Guests: Sometimes
📅 Release frequency: 4-7 episodes/month
TubeTalk may not come off as the super attractive & high production quality thing, but it’s hyper-focused on the practical side of producing YouTube videos, the underlying content creation strategy, and everything that comes with it. The hosts are very knowledgeable about the most detailed aspects of the YouTube scene and often answer questions from the listeners, so it’s very likely that any questions you may have were already asked by someone else and answered. The whole vibe is very relaxed, so if you’re only looking for insights, you may find yourself fast-forwarding a little.
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🎙️ Hosted by Katie Steckly
⏱️ Episode length: 30 minutes
📚 Topics: Life as a creator
🪑 Guests: No
📅 Release frequency: 2 episodes/month
Katie's podcast is perfect for everyone looking for actionable, real-world insights and wisdom. She isn't afraid to share some of her real numbers - like how much she charges brands that want to work with her - which gives the podcast a very authentic and no-BS feel. It provides great information if you want to look behind the scenes and see the creator's careers, problems, and solutions from the first-person perspective.
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🎙️ Hosted by Joe Pulizzi
⏱️ Episode length: 5 minutes
📚 Topics: Content creation, career advice
🪑 Guests: Sometimes
📅 Release frequency: 4 episodes/month
Not everyone has a full hour to regularly listen to a traditional podcast, and Joe Pulizzi's Content, Inc provides a solution. His bite-sized episodes often don’t last even 5 minutes, but that's enough for him to explore one specific topic or thought. They are very straightforward, without fluff, and deal with a wide range of topics, which you can filter the episodes by on the podcast's website. Occasional special episodes are full-length and sometimes feature an interesting guest.
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🎙️ Hosted by Evie McLeod and Lindsey Roman
⏱️ Episode length: 1 hour
📚 Topics: Freelancing, life
🪑 Guests: Often
📅 Release frequency: 5 episodes/month
The hosts, Evie and Lindsey, are wedding photographers who managed to venture into starting their own businesses and are now helping others do the same. This podcast is more focused on freelancing than content production and is also very real about the life challenges that come with being a freelancer and how to deal with them without losing your soul. Some of the episodes are geared toward women, but all of them are very insightful and can be very valuable for guys, too!