Five Podcast Mistakes To Avoid

Frank Racioppi
6 min readJun 23, 2022

The most common miscues made by new podcasters

Most podcasts aren’t born successful, brimming with caffeinated buzz, recommended by influencers and pulling healthy listener numbers right away. In most cases, podcasts grow by beta testing formats, ideas, tempo, narration and even hosts.

For example, comedian Paula Poundstone started her first podcast as Live At The Poundstone Institute and after several months then retooled with her highly successful Nobody Listens To Paula Poundstone podcast. Showing keen analytic skills, the Poundstone team decided…

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Frank Racioppi

I am a South Jersey-based writer who manages Podcast Reports on Blogger and have a book available on Amazon about podcasts and podcasting called “Ear Worthy.”