Daily or Weekly Podcast? Five Weeks of Data in Five Days

Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot · Aug 17, 2026 · 5m

How long do you wait to find out whether your podcast is working? If you're publishing weekly, the honest answer is weeks, and by the time you know, you've already recorded the next four episodes.

I said at the start of this experiment that I'd tell you exactly what happens, good or bad, so this is the first week's report. Twenty five minutes of recording, five episodes, and a set of numbers I've just sat down and worked out. Some of them are what you'd expect from a show starting from zero. One of them isn't, and it happened on day five.

In this episode I go through what those 25 minutes…