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24 alternatives to Show Me Your Mic #106: What's Your Main Motivation for Podcasting in 2016?

Responses from 14 podcasters about why they do it.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Show Me Your Mic #106: What's Your Main Motivation for Podcasting in 2016? launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Building Nexcast Part 6: What's Up With Podcasting?▲62

   Many strangers give us their take on podcasting

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Show Me Your Mic Podcast▲80

   A show that talks to podcasters about podcasting

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Show Me Your Mic - 108: 3 Podcasts For the Rest of Your Life▲56

   Great suggestions for new shows to listen to here.

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Seeking Wisdom: What We Learned Starting a Podcast in 2016▲61

   What we learned starting a podcast in 2016

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   Create If Writing - What I Learned in a Year of Podcasting - The Good, The Bad, & The Fun▲55

   Learn from MY mistakes, not yours

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Hit Reply – Episode 0: Yet Another Startup Podcast?▲80

   How we went from 0 launches in 5 years to 9 in the last 2

   2016 · its alternatives →

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   Inside Podcasting▲126

   Curating the resurgence of the spoken word

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   I made a Hacker News for podcasts▲367

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   How to Get Sponsorships for Podcasts▲132

   Making podcasts profitable.

   2015 · its alternatives →

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    Irresistible Podcasting▲174

    A step-by-step guide to launching a podcast in 2015

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Hatching - 17: How to meet your heroes▲93

    A podcast about the inner workings of Need/Want

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Hello Tech Pros: Tools to Create 100+ Podcast Episodes▲54

    The gear I've used to create this here podthingy

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Growth Everywhere: 7 Benefits of Podcasting▲64

    Learn about the benefits of podcasting

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Founder Thunder Round — #3 "What is success to you, personally?" w/ 10 founders▲65

    10 Founders, 1 Question per episode

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Reverb Street▲107

    Grow your podcast audience

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    From Start To Finish - 024: How to Stay Inspired with John Lee Dumas▲56

    Be inspired by the consistency of one of the top podcasters!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Show Me Your Mic - 107: Conversations About Marketing and Reaching an Audience▲55

    Do you need a blog? Should you be on YouTube?

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hello Tech Pros: How I Published 100 Podcast Episodes in 100 Days▲55

    Productivity, consistency, resiliency

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    a16z - A podcast about podcasts▲140

    Discussing podcast discovery & community w/ PH & Roman Mars

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The App Guy Podcast▲204

    Access over 200 startup founder interviews

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The Podcast Universe▲111

    Visualization of podcast networks

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Marketing Without the Marketing-50: How to Get to 50 Episodes▲56

    A good starting point if you want to launch a podcast.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    HackToStart▲82

    A podcast on interesting people & how they achieve success

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Startups for the Rest of Us - EP296 - Launching 100 projects in a year▲86

    Talking about product/founder fit.

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