Do you get feedback from your audience?

Do you get feedback from your audience?

Danny Kelly (Podcaster) gives expert video advice on: Do you record it in a studio?; What does a producer do?; Is swearing allowed on a podcast? and more...

You get loads and loads of feedback. You get feedback in the form of e-mails, and of course from podcasts. On radio, you've actually got people on the phone saying "Get this bloke off, he's no good - I don't agree with that", ringing up the station, and all the rest of it. The podcast is very open to e-mails and it is a very important form of content, because people will often add to what's being said, or set things off in a whole new way. I look forward to the day when all these technologies converge further. We're starting to get the phenomenon of the phone out, aren't we? We know how radio phone is, and now with podcast, whereby you have a group of people you know are listening, you phone out to them and they come onto the show. It can't be very far away from the days when podcasts are as live and interactive as radio shows. I do look forward to that, very much indeed. For the moment, you're relying on your feedback on e-mails. The good thing about that is, it's a media, it's direct, and it's in your face. The bad thing is, people can really get stuck into you remotely, in a way that they couldn't do in the past. They would have to write a letter, and it would take 3 weeks to get there. If you're not right, or if you're rubbish, you're told very quickly.