Marketing Podcasting

Podcast Marketing and Growth

Build a podcast growth system from positioning and launch planning to audience retention, partnerships, analytics, and monetization.

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.4
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Podcast Marketing and Growth Course

Podcast Marketing and Growth is a practical online course for creators, teams, and brands that want to grow a podcast with a clear, repeatable Marketing system. You will learn how to improve positioning, plan launches, promote episodes, retain listeners, measure performance, and prepare for monetization.

Build A Podcast Growth System That Attracts And Retains Listeners

  • Build a podcast growth system from positioning and launch planning to audience retention, partnerships, analytics, and monetization.
  • Clarify your listener promise, market position, show packaging, titles, descriptions, and podcast SEO foundations.
  • Create repeatable Marketing workflows for launches, social content, email newsletters, communities, guests, and collaborations.
  • Use analytics, retention insights, budget tests, and a 90-day growth plan to make smarter growth decisions.

This Podcast Marketing and Growth course teaches you how to turn a podcast into a focused, measurable growth engine.

You will start with the foundations of Podcast Marketing and Growth, including the podcast growth landscape, listener definition, market positioning, and the listener promise that guides every episode and promotion decision. From there, the course helps you shape your naming, branding, and show packaging so your podcast is easier to understand, share, and remember.

The course then moves into content strategy, showing you how episode planning, titles, descriptions, and podcast SEO basics support both discovery and retention. You will learn how to build a launch or relaunch plan, maintain a repeatable promotion calendar, and turn episodes into social content, newsletter material, community conversations, and partnership opportunities without relying on random posting.

You will also study guest strategy, interview promotion, cross-promotions, feed swaps, collaborations, PR, media outreach, paid promotion, and budget testing. By the end of the course, you will understand which podcast analytics actually matter, how to improve listener loyalty, and how to evaluate monetization readiness. After completing Podcast Marketing and Growth, you will be able to approach podcast Marketing with a structured plan, clearer priorities, and the confidence to grow your audience with consistency.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of Podcast Marketing

4 lessons

This lesson maps the podcast growth landscape so learners can see why growth is no longer just a matter of publishing consistently and waiting for listeners to arrive. Podcast marketing now depends on…

Lesson 2: Defining the Listener and Market Position

22 min
This lesson establishes the strategic starting point for podcast growth: knowing exactly who the show is for and why that audience would choose it over other options. Students learn how to define a li…

Lesson 3: Crafting a Clear Listener Promise

20 min
A clear listener promise is the foundation of podcast marketing because it tells the right person why the show is worth their time. In this lesson, students learn how to define a specific audience, na…

Lesson 4: Naming, Branding, and Show Packaging

21 min
This lesson teaches how to package a podcast so a new listener can quickly understand what it is, who it is for, and why it is worth trying. Students will learn how to create a clear show name, listen…

Content That Supports Growth

2 lessons

Lesson 5: Episode Strategy for Discovery and Retention

22 min
This lesson shows how to design individual podcast episodes so they help new listeners discover the show and give existing listeners a reason to stay. You will learn how to choose episode topics with …

Lesson 6: Titles, Descriptions, and Podcast SEO Basics

20 min
This lesson teaches how to make podcast episodes easier to discover, understand, and choose through stronger titles, descriptions, and basic podcast SEO. Learners will focus on practical metadata deci…

Campaign Planning

2 lessons

Lesson 7: Building a Launch or Relaunch Plan

24 min
This lesson turns a podcast launch or relaunch from a vague announcement into a coordinated campaign. Students learn how to define a launch goal, choose a realistic timeline, prepare core assets, buil…

Lesson 8: Creating a Repeatable Promotion Calendar

19 min
A repeatable promotion calendar turns every podcast episode into a coordinated campaign instead of a last-minute social post. This lesson shows how to map the promotion window before, during, and afte…

Channel Growth

3 lessons

Lesson 9: Turning Episodes into Social Content

23 min
This lesson teaches a practical system for turning each podcast episode into social content without treating every channel as a dumping ground for clips. You will learn how to identify moments worth r…

Lesson 10: Growing with Email Newsletters

20 min
Email newsletters give podcast listeners a second, more durable relationship with the show. Instead of relying only on podcast apps, social algorithms, or guest promotion, a newsletter lets you reach …

Lesson 11: Using Communities Without Spamming

18 min
Communities can be powerful podcast growth channels when you treat them as places to contribute, not billboards to exploit. This lesson shows how to identify relevant communities, understand their nor…

Partnership Growth

3 lessons

Lesson 12: Guest Strategy and Interview Promotion

22 min
This lesson shows how to turn guest interviews into a repeatable partnership growth channel. Students learn how to choose guests based on audience overlap and promotional fit, design interview angles …

Lesson 13: Cross-Promotions, Feed Swaps, and Collaborations

21 min
This lesson shows how podcast partnerships create audience growth without relying on paid ads or platform algorithms. Learners will distinguish cross-promotions, feed swaps, guest collaborations, and …

Lesson 14: PR, Media Outreach, and Thought Leadership

20 min
This lesson shows how podcast partnerships can expand beyond feed swaps and guest appearances into credible public relations, media outreach, and thought leadership. Students learn how to turn a podca…

Scalable Acquisition

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Paid Promotion and Budget Testing

23 min
This lesson shows how to use paid promotion as a controlled testing system, not as a shortcut for weak positioning or inconsistent publishing. You will learn how to choose channels, set small test bud…

Measurement and Optimization

2 lessons

Lesson 16: Podcast Analytics That Actually Matter

24 min
This lesson turns podcast analytics into a practical operating system. Instead of chasing vanity numbers, students learn which metrics reveal reach, retention, discovery, episode quality, listener beh…

Lesson 17: Improving Listener Retention and Loyalty

22 min
Listener retention is one of the clearest signals that a podcast is delivering on its promise. This lesson shows how to diagnose where listeners lose interest, improve episode structure without overpr…

Growth Systems and Monetization

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Monetization Readiness and the 90-Day Growth Plan

25 min
This lesson turns podcast monetization from a vague goal into a readiness system. You will learn how to judge whether a show is prepared for sponsors, listener support, products, services, affiliates,…
About Your Instructor
Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.