Why Do Podcasters Post Their Audio On YouTube?

[Amnon]

It's all about reaching more listeners. There are lots of audio-only uploads on YouTube. It has the most traffic of any entertainment site. The question in my mind is, why would you NOT post your audio on YouTube?

Hey, never thought about posting the audio there. They would not let me post the 5 Hours show, but the audio is a pretty small file.

[Donovan]

Hey, never thought about posting the audio there. They would not let me post the 5 Hours show, but the audio is a pretty small file.

YouTube has allowed unlimited time for about a year now. I post our 1+ hour shows there every week.

[Amnon]

YouTube has allowed unlimited time for about a year now. I post our 1+ hour shows there every week.

Well, I tried about two months ago again, and no dice. Will try again.

[mcphillips]

The last time I checked, there was a time limit more so than a file size limit. Things change all the time, so give it a shot. Audio files are easily edited into segments.

[andrewzarian]

I know many Podcasts post their interviews on Youtube and surprisingly they get a lot of views. I have spent many hours listening to radio interviews on Youtube.

[Formulatech]

Could you just use the podcast Album artwork as the video so its not just black also the video could be use to put up text about links show notes etc

[Donovan]

Could you just use the podcast Album artwork as the video so its not just black also the video could be use to put up text about links show notes etc

Yes, if you don't have any other video that you want to put on it, the recommended method is to put your logo, etc. as the video track.

[Donovan]

The last time I checked, there was a time limit more so than a file size limit. Things change all the time, so give it a shot. Audio files are easily edited into segments.

As long as you don't have any copyright infringements on your account or other restrictions, it's now unlimited as far as the time is concerned. I have 3 YouTube accounts that have unlimited on them.

[Amnon]

YouTube has allowed unlimited time for about a year now. I post our 1+ hour shows there every week.

Well, if they claim that then there is something wrong. I uploaded yesterday's show, and right after it was done, I gor this:
"This video has been removed because it is too long.
Sorry about that."

[Donovan]

Well, if they claim that then there is something wrong. I uploaded yesterday's show, and right after it was done, I gor this:
"This video has been removed because it is too long.
Sorry about that."

I'm not sure why they won't allow you to upload longer than 15 minutes. If you visit http://www.youtube.com/southgeekme, you'll see that my videos are well over 10 or 15 minutes.

I know that as I created my accounts, I would be notified within a few minutes that my account was now allowed to upload videos of unlimited length. The file size limit is 20GB (if memory serves me correctly).