Podcast Growth Lab
What do the top podcasts know that most creators don’t?
At AZ Pod Studio, we work in podcasting and media every single day with some of the top voices and top-performing shows in the space. This podcast gives you the behind-the-scenes strategies most creators never hear about — from YouTube growth and viral clips to monetization, branding, thumbnails, titles, guests, and audience building.
Whether you’re trying to start a podcast, grow one, make money from content, or understand how modern media actually works, this show is built to help you skip years of trial and error.
Podcast Growth Lab
Latest Episodes
YouTube Doesn't Push Videos. It Pulls Them. Here's the Difference.
20 views after hours of recording, editing, and polishing a title and thumbnail can make you feel cursed by the YouTube algorithm. We take that frustration head-on and share what we’ve heard repeatedly from the person closest to how YouTube rec...
Apple Video Is Here — Does It Actually Hack Your Podcast Views?
Apple just added video to podcasts, Spotify keeps doubling down on video uploads, and YouTube is rapidly becoming the default place people actually watch long-form content on their TVs. The problem is that “video podcasting” sounds like a singl...
Your Podcast Clips Are Worthless If You're Not Doing This
You can spend hours recording a great podcast and still wonder why growth feels stuck, and it often comes down to one thing: distribution. We walk through the exact mindset shift that turns short-form podcast clips from “nice content” into a re...
I Beat the World's Best Editors With One Simple Trick
Most podcast clips fail for one simple reason: they start in the wrong place. If you’ve been dropping your YouTube link into an AI tool like Opus and posting whatever it spits out, you might be getting “clips” but missing the moments that actua...
Your Podcast Is a Muscle — Here's How to Train It
Most people treat podcasting like a lottery ticket and then wonder why it never pays out. We treat it like a gym routine, because the shows that last are built on reps, not a fancy microphone. If you’ve been tempted to spend big on gear before ...