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For one of my rare research articles I decided to look at a rising topic or activity if you will in the VHL, podcasting. Some podcasts do better than others, whilst some don’t necessarily crash and burn, but certainly don’t do as well. As I look up on google what statistics I should include and how to display them/make this article seem more complicated. I’ll mainly talk about the person that consistently posts, gets the most views, and what they do that makes them so successful. Podcast Series’s: Jardy’s Hecking Podcast @JardyB10 3PPAO @roryRory Inside the Fish Tank @thadthrasher Fragmented thoughts with fishy @fishy Spartan Solo Bolo @Spartan One and a Half Aussies @Berocka For points, for practice @jRuutu Sam Talks alot @samx Ahmacast @Ahma Rock Bottom @Phil Jardy’s Nodesode @JardyB10 Thadscape @thadthrasher Beers with Boot @dasboot The Weekly Scoop MegaBite Sized @Berocka Marauders Management Podcast @Ledge Off the Ledge @Ledge Nurx’s Fantastic Podcast @nurx Spartcast @Spartan A mini Podcast with Minion @Minion The Duel Defense Podcast @MrMonkey No Fuhr @Tate MubbleFubbles Radio @MubbleFubbles This is a “RISKY” podcast These are all “current” podcast, which means they aren’t in the archives. And for the most part have been uploaded this year. The podcasts are also ranked in total views, based off their top episode, or when I caught their name to put it on the list. Unsurprisingly at the top of the list is Jardy’s Hecking Podcast, a podcast by @JardyB10 who most people wouldn’t fail to know as a member of our community. The difference from the Hecking Podcast and 3PPAO based on forum views isn’t very close either, almost 300 views. With most of Jardy’s podcasts being him alone with no co-host, and sometimes guests, what does he do to stay so consistent? Just realized that the names cutoff, from left it's Jardy's Hecking Podcast Ep.10 Pt.2 ->Ep.1, then Jardy's Chodesode Ep.28 ->Ep.1, finally Jardy's Nodesode Ep.4->Ep.1 Taking the view counts from his old podcast the Chodesode, his current podcast the Hecking, and his newest the Nodesode. Most notably Jardy’s Hecking Podcast Episode 7 titled “The Podcast the Commissioners Don’t Want You to Hear!”, his top podcast episode, reached 827 views. In his episode summary for that episode he wrote “-Finally get into questions that I forgot about for 2 months -Do a brief overview of the standings and why I “hate” Vancouver’s success -Quote Final Fantasy V -BOG LEAKZ!.” Did the title of this episode help with the success of this episode? Likely so, the clickbait like title grabs the viewers attention and serves its name of helping convince you to click on the episode. Jardy is also a veteran member of the league, once being a commissioner, and is a very well known figure in the community because of his personality and how involved his is from discussions with other members, to welcoming newer members. To start off the episode he has upbeat music, his mic quality isn’t absolute garbage and you can hear him clearly. Though being unscripted and relatively unprepared as he says, Jardy carries out topics for a good amount of time with small talk, and sometimes stories that take him away from the subject but is still somehow relevant. He orders his “topics” in a way that interest is carried throughout the episode, and provides something unique that most others cannot or won’t dare provide, if you didn’t already figure it out it’s BOG Leaks. In that episode some notable things that Jardy does is he has intro music along with outdo music, includes his listeners by answering their questions, fills in parts of the podcast with his own small talk, talks in an interest grabbing tone, orders topics in a way to keep interest, has unique topics, includes details on a personal level, talks dramatically + swears, and has audio clips to transition into his next section. But these are for his mid length podcasts. For his short podcasts he had the “chodesode” but for reasons he has changed that series into the Nodesode. This series is meant to be short and he typically records these in the car on his way home or to work. These provide lesser sound quality but are just as entertaining as Jardy is given something else to naturally talk about, other people’s driving. With more cuts in the audio to safely research something whilst on the road, every now and then there is a short break from the serious topic to “what the hell is this guy doing?” A short and entertaining little skit that can regain a viewers attention if they had zoned out or became focused on something else. In all his episode descriptions he recaps the episode, tags the people mentioned throughout the episode even if it’s just for a second, and makes the podcast accessible to different platforms such as anchor and Spotify. Typically the best episodes for most podcasts are the I’m back, or the pilot episodes to a new series. Which includes his top Chodesode episode 7 where he announced that carcast/the podcast series was back, reaching 400 views. So in general if you didn’t bother to read most of this article here are the tips and tricks I’d recommend based off of light research of the VHL’s top podcaster. -Have intro music that matches with the podcast -Have a clear voice/decent mic quality -Know what you’re talking about -Don’t be afraid to go off topic and talk about other things, but not for too long -Talk about multiple things throughout your podcast -Have something unique that just your podcast has -Be an active figure in the community -Recap your episode and tag those you mentioned -Make your podcast available on different platforms -Be engaging with your listeners To make a great podcast you have to put in the effort, a raw audio file is great just for the tpe, but that extra pizzaz is great for the listeners. I’m currently trapped inside because of a snow storm and so I have plenty of time to write, there’ll hopefully be plenty more articles I publish this week, let me know what you think about what I wrote above, spartan promised me a media spot response anyways, sorry for the lacking of statistics and such, I’m not much a statistics person/gatherer and I didn’t really know what to include, otherwise if I had put average viewership into a graph which would’ve been cool, I don’t know how to do that without noting down and adding up all the view counts manually.

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Fuck you frank and your perfect graphics. It makes my job of reviewing and shitting on these so hard when I can’t find much imperfections . I’m not exactly sure what the splatters are but I assume it’s just for the style of this sig which is fine, otherwise I’m not sure if the bubble thing on the left hand side of the graphic is really necessary and would probably look cleaner without it. Overall 9.5/10 because of the bubble and “nothing is perfect”

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Does #teamclue need a goalie???

This is so cute. It gives me a little nostalgic thoughts like if you were watching a really old movie in class and it’s on that huge box that with the kind of quality or look of you will that this has. A little bit of a faded outline from top to bottom on the skaters might be cool. Only other thing is that you didn’t use derp horse so I have to give it a 0/10 (fr:9/10)

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That’s you all the time, even before you joined smh

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For god sake like the man’s post!

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Yes

What gritty said

Don’t forget to say when this is

I’m trying!

At least like the man’s post smh

Jardy has agreed to only eat Taco Bell for lunch for an entire week, whilst wearing just those underpants all week, and it will be finished off with him burning them over a super dramatic fire.

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I couldn't think of the phrase lol