Podcasting 101:
Producing a Podcast

Easily invite your co-hosts over to the app and record as you please. Anchor can be accessed on mobile and desktop computers, so it can be compatible with most devices. Anchor also has background music you can use and you can even edit audio straight from the app!

Ah, Discord. You may be using this app to call your friends every night, handle a school club, or join online communities, but you can also use Discord to make your podcast. Discord can accommodate a lot of people at once and the cool thing is you can still hear everyone, which is probably why Discord is heavily used in the gaming and streaming communities. Get all of your co-hosts on call, use a screen recorder and there you go!

Zoom can hold a lot of people just like Discord, but what makes it have advantages is that you can record the call straight from zoom without any extra apps. Furthermore, once you finish recording, Zoom gives you the audio as an MP4 as well as an extracted MP3 version.

Although Zoom is great for audio podcasts, Zoom is even better for video podcasts. In fact, this is what we use for On the Line!

Anchor is the best option for audio podcasts since it offers so much more than just recording. You can also edit straight from the app with hundreds of royalty free music, sound effects, and jingles you can use!

GarageBand is commonly used for making music but did you know you can edit podcasts too?

iMovie is very underrated for editing videos. People tend to look past it when you need to edit simple videos, but iMovie is perfect for what it is made for: simple videos! A podcast may not be simple, but editing it can be made easy with iMovie. On the Line uses iMovie too, so if we can do it, so can you.

Although Canva’s video editor isn’t the best, it sure can suffice! In terms of editing raw videos, the most Canva can do is clip certain parts and move them to a time spot, but what makes Canva shine is the design aspect. You can easily add animations, stickers, and even background music.

WHAT? Anchor again?! I know, Anchor is super cool and truly an all-rounder. After you edit in Anchor, you can publish it right away and it will be distributed to all major podcast streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts in a small amount of time. Fun fact: Anchor was made by Spotify! The cool thing is, you can even upload your own audio that wasn’t made in the app.

For example, for the first season of OTL, we uploaded the video version on Instagram, extracted the audio, and uploaded it to Anchor so an audio version could be available on Spotify and other platforms too. Cool, right?

Instagram will most likely be the place for you to upload (if you are the next AV Team) since that is where The Mover publishes everything, including podcasts.

Youtube is the most common platform to upload anything from videos to audios, and it is just as easy as you think.