How to write a podcast summary
One of the important things you have to do before publishing your new episode is to give it a title and a powerful summary or description.
What makes a good podcast summary?
- Explain to your listeners what they can expect if they listen to your podcast.
- The first impact a user will see is the title. The second impact is the description. If you haven’t managed to convince the listener with the title, you will have to do it with the description.
- You must be very critical. Reading the summary, would you watch the podcast? Put yourself in your listener’s shoes.
- It must be easy to search in order to get more visitors.
How should the podcast summary look like?
- A user has access to a lot of information in a short time. If the text is too long, he will get tired of it and look for another podcast. The name itself says it, su-mma-ry.
- You should attack all the main and most interesting topics, with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 6.
- People tend to scan, so the important information and the conclusion should be highlighted as soon as possible.
- If there is a launch, a big news or an interviewee, you should introduce it.
- Don’t forget an appropriate call to action that prompts the user to listen to it.
- As with the title, the content of the summary will rank both in global search engines such as Google and in the search engines of Podcast platforms such as Spotify and Apple.
How can AI powered tools help me?
There are manual tasks that can be increasingly automated such as transcribing your podcast, getting a great title or a coherent summary.
Tools like Amplipod will save you time, improve the visibility of your podcast by automatically and consistently adding keywords to your podcast, improve accessibility to listeners and improve your productivity.