July 6, 2020

Interview Clips At the Start of Your Show

Interview Clips At the Start of Your Show

I hear so many podcasts that do interviews and they start their podcast by pulling a clip from the interview. Today we talk about why this may not be the best strategy.

  • The interview snippet should build anticipation
  • Piques the curiosity and makes them want to know more
  • Some people pull clips that make people go WHAT WAS THAT?

Many times these clips are long (I wouldn't make then any long than 10-15 seconds if not shorter) and just leave the listener confused. 

ROLL THE CLIP

If you think about it movies use trailers to motivate people to come see the movie. They also send the starts on talks shows who often have a clip of the show. When the hosts ask, "Does this need setup?" the answer is almost always yes. Some back story is needed to have the clip make sense. In some cases podcasters are creating a clip, placing it at the very beginning of the episode and there is no "setup" and the clip leads to confusion. 

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00:00 - Untitled

01:23 - My Mission

01:45 - Grabbing People's Attention

03:54 - Come to the Table

05:33 - The Interview Clip To Start the Show Format

07:17 - Clips Typically Need a Setup

08:08 - Make Sure Your Episode Title Pulls Them in

09:41 - Thirve of Survive Mentality

10:50 - Example Tease

13:45 - The Origin of The Tease

16:14 - Making Clips is Not Easy

22:56 - Join The School of Podcasting

24:11 - Feedback is Your Friend

24:41 - Grow Your Community Version 1.0

28:47 - Grow Your Community Version 2.0

30:23 - Don't Be Afraid to Play With Formats

31:10 - Question of the month deadline 7/24

31:53 - Get a Podcast Audit

33:14 - Bloopers