By Neil Patel

Facebook is moving forward into the world of podcasting. With the new Facebook podcast feature, creators can link their iTunes RSS feed with Facebook so episodes are automatically aggregated on your Facebook news feed. Does this have some perks? You bet it does.

In this quick guide, I want to show you the simple steps necessary to get your podcast onto Facebook while also explaining how you can take advantage of this big change by the social media giant.

Why Should You Add Your Podcast to Your Facebook Page?

There are many reasons why having your podcast on Facebook is a great idea. First of all, it’s a new opportunity to reach your audience without having to do anything at all. Once it’s set up, you can let it run and your Facebook followers that might not have iTunes will be able to enjoy your podcast as well.

Here are some of the other reasons to create a Facebook podcast page:

Reach a Wider Audience

You can never be in too many places, as long as you can manage it while you’re there. The more people you can reach, the more money you’ll make. While this is generally true, the new Facebook podcast features provide more than just a wider audience.

Having your podcast on Facebook allows you to take it beyond an audio experience. You can engage with your audience, talk with them, ask them questions, and piggyback off the success of your podcast to create new content in new places. Facebook is simply one more place you can go to reach your target audience.

Try Out New Features

Facebook is also rolling out a new suite of audio creation tools for its podcast feature. They’ve invested in technology like text-to-speech, voice morphing, and a backend audio creation tool to make it more enjoyable for creators. You can do all of this directly from the Facebook app without the need for a third-party provider.

The platform also offers a sound collection feature that allows you to optimize and make changes to the audio so you can mix different tracks together, create voice effects, and add filters. I think the goal of Facebook might be to eventually have creators doing everything from front to back on Facebook. They see where the niche is going, and that there is a growing demand for it.

Twenty-eight percent of listeners prefer podcasts over any other type of audio content, and around 18 percent say they listen to podcasts more now than they did seven years ago.

The chart above shows the percentage of people who have ever listened to a podcast year after year. It continues to grow and as the younger generation grows up, they’ll be more in tune with this type of technology and expect Facebook podcasts …read more

Source:: Kiss Metrics Blog

Author: Aaron