Why Platforms Are Quietly Burying Your Podcast, and How RV Rising Studio Helps You Get Recommended Again
You upload regularly. You cover pertinent topics. However, your episodes hardly ever appear in the recommendations, and you receive views from only those people who subscribed to your channel directly. Almost nobody stumbles across your podcast without following you first. Most creators are convinced that it is nothing but poor luck of the draw in terms of the algorithm. The fact is that nowadays platforms consciously decide what podcasts to promote to new audiences, and video production quality matters more than ever before.
YouTube and Spotify have seen a shift towards podcasts within the past two years. It is not just about providing a static thumbnail together with the audio. It is about analyzing how much watch time the show produces, how engaged the audience is, and how the overall production quality compares to other podcasts fighting for the attention of the viewership. Podcast recorded in one take on a shaky camera with uneven lighting and poor audio is bound to lose viewers' attention sooner or later. The lack of watch time means that algorithm considers your content unworthy of promotion.
