Short Vs Long-Form Podcast Episodes: Which Performs Better
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips
Eric Siu and Neil Patel
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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 | If you're on YouTube right now, |
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