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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Short Vs Long-Form Podcast Episodes: Which Performs Better

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2428, Neil and Eric talk about short versus long-form podcast episodes and which ones perform better. Part of one’s job as a creator is producing content that is so good that people are always looking forward to the next installment — whether that’s an email or a podcast episode. Find out what we’ve learned from producing long and short-form podcast episodes, our recommended tools for getting accurate insight into your product, and how to strive for content that people can’t wait to interact with! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:20] Today’s topic: Short Vs Long Form Podcast Episodes: Which Performs Better? [00:38] Why we started doing short-form podcast episodes back in 2016. [01:08] How our new long-form episodes are performing versus the short ones. [02:01] A breakdown of Apple data on our long and short-form podcast content. [04:48] The value of high-quality content and how tools like Charitable can shed light on your retention rate. [07:07] What we hope to see from our long-form episodes in the future.  [08:16] That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Apple: Measure podcast analytics & stats Chartable Megaphone Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us:  Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.5

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with

0:14.0

your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:18.6

All right so we're going to talk about short versus long-form podcast episodes and which one performs better.

0:25.7

So let me set to the stage here.

0:27.6

Now, for marketing school, I believe we are coming up on seven years now, actually I was looking at one to get seven yeah

0:35.7

it started in July of 2016 so we're coming up now we started this podcast focused on

0:41.6

short-form five-minute episodes because we saw so many people doing these interview episodes

0:45.8

You know in the very beginning like everyone loved it for the first three to four years. It's like we shared everything we knew around marketing

0:52.3

But over time when you do the daily one sometimes you just end up repeating the same thing right?

0:56.2

We got some feedback from people on the reviews and we're like, okay, you know what? We'll show you a different way and so we show them a different way and we just completed two of our reaction videos and these are longer forms about

1:07.6

Let's forget these let's let's not use the word reaction videos. I think they're the wrong type of verbiage just think of it as you're the wrong type of verbiage just think of it as you're the wrong type of

1:15.2

verbiage and long-form episodes our episodes were five minutes on average and now we're

1:21.6

trying 30 plus minute episodes.

1:23.7

Vernacular, longer form or reaction, whatever you want to call it, right?

1:28.1

So point being...

1:29.1

You're to understand from a marketing standpoint, right, when we're breaking

1:31.8

on the stats. Yes, you're right.

1:34.2

Don't never interrupt me again, I'm just kidding.

1:36.1

So we'll go with long form and what Neil is saying.

1:38.9

Look, we want to show you some stats.

1:40.7

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