{"id":42420,"date":"2022-11-28T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepodcasthost.com\/?p=42420"},"modified":"2022-12-07T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T10:06:07","slug":"introduce-audio-drama-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepodcasthost.com\/fiction-podcasts\/introduce-audio-drama-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Attract New Listeners to Audio Drama (Audio FICTION. Not FRICTION!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, Tom Webster wished in his article “Podcasting, Audiobooks, and the Third Thing<\/a>” for an elusive: “Third Thing… crafted with all of the creative force of the novelist or biographer, but designed from the ground up to be heard–not just through sound design, but packaged for easy episodic consumption, and written to be heard, not read.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you suppose audio drama could be one<\/em> third thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiction is the least densely populated category in podcasting, and the most difficult to promote. The category has such breadth and depth of topics, styles, and audiences that directories should have more fiction sub-categories. How do we get folks to realize that podcasting is more than simply, as Webster says, “some person with a mic and an opinion?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing new audiences to audio drama can have benefits for creators and sponsors, such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n