{"podcast":{"title":"B2B Podcasting Insights - business strategy podcast for founders and brands","slug":"b2b-podcasting-insights-business-strategy-podcast-for-founders-and-brands-444039","podcast_index_feed_id":444039,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/b2b-podcasting-insights/","website_url":"https://podknows.co.uk","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/276e92b6-9a09-42d2-be4d-11ef48ec393a/B2B-Podcasting-Insights-artwork-May-2026.jpg","author":"Podknows Podcasting - B2B Podcasting Experts","episode_count":37,"summary":"B2B Podcasting Insights is for founders, CMOs, consultants, and solo operators who want their podcast to shorten their sales cycle and increase the quality of inbound conversations. Most branded podcasts, designed by businesses, are content wallpaper — polite, vague, interchangeable, and strategically pointless. This show is the opposite. Because podcasting isn’t about brand awareness. It’s about belief — specifically, the kind that makes a prospect say “Yeah, I already trust you.” We talk positioning, message clarity, buying triggers, narrative leverage, and how to use your voice as a strategic asset. Straight talk. No fluff. No “10 tips”. Just how to make your branded B2B podcast actually move deals.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/b2b-podcasting-insights-business-strategy-podcast-for-founders-and-brands-444039"},"episode":{"title":"10,000 Followers? 100 Downloads! Why B2B Sales Podcasts Struggle!","slug":"10-000-followers-100-downloads-why-b2b-sales-podcasts-struggle","published_at":"2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/b2b-podcasting-insights-business-strategy-podcast-for-founders-and-brands-444039/10-000-followers-100-downloads-why-b2b-sales-podcasts-struggle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/b2b-podcasting-insights-business-strategy-podcast-for-founders-and-brands-444039","url":"https://podknows.co.uk","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/015cadaf-ebd1-4cc8-9132-63f5ccfc219e.mp3","summary":"If you've built a decent following on LinkedIn and you're still wondering why your podcast isn't getting the downloads you expected, more posting almost certainly isn't the answer. Ten thousand followers sounds like a head start. In podcasting, it barely counts as a warm-up. I'm Neal Veglio , and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm breaking down why your social media audience and your podcast audience are almost entirely different groups of people — and why treating them as the same thing is one of the most expensive and time-consuming mistakes in B2B podcasting right now. We get into why the barrier to becoming part of someone's social following is so low it's practically meaningless, why platform algorithms are specifically designed to bury your podcast link before anyone clicks it, and why social media call-to-actions account for less than 1% of episode traffic. Yes, less than 1% — and yes, I have data to back that up. I also walk through where podcast audiences actually do come from, why YouTube isn't the magic cross-pollination fix some people are claiming, and a quick episode title test you can run right now to see whether your show is even findable inside the podcast apps. Plus, Rachel from a professional services firm sends in this week's Founder FAQ with a question about a host who's starting to run out of things to say eight months in — and the answer might reframe how you think about your whole show brief. Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk Free Guide — Five Areas Most Branded Podcasts Ignore: https://podknows.co.uk/free-guide B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits","meta_description":"If you've built a decent following on LinkedIn and you're still wondering why your podcast isn't getting the downloads you expected, more posting almost c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":784,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/b2b-podcasting-insights-business-strategy-podcast-for-founders-and-brands-444039/episodes/10-000-followers-100-downloads-why-b2b-sales-podcasts-struggle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/b2b-podcasting-insights-business-strategy-podcast-for-founders-and-brands-444039/10-000-followers-100-downloads-why-b2b-sales-podcasts-struggle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}