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The Jag Show: Podcast Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

Podcast and radio veteran Jon "JAG" Gay provides tips, tricks, and best practices for you and your podcast. By day, JAG launches and improves podcasts for financial advisors, small businesses, nonprofits, and corporate communications departments. His company rebranded from JAG in Detroit Podcasts to JAG Podcast Productions in August, 2025. After 15 years as a radio DJ and program director, and now 8 as a podcast host and producer, he brings over two decades of audio experience and perspective to the podcasting world.

Comcast Rant

7 mins; February 20, 2026

Protect Your Podcast From The Next YouTube Outage!

1 min; October 20, 2025

Know Your Team!

4 mins; October 08, 2025

Chat-Based Editing?! Interview with Riverside's Kendall Breitman

59 mins; October 01, 2025

Podcast Crutches - What's Yours?

3 mins; September 25, 2025

Taylor Swift and The Future of Podcast Movement

12 mins; September 10, 2025

Which Podcast Mic Should You Buy?

5 mins; August 04, 2025

10 Questions to Ask Your Podcast Listeners

5 mins; December 05, 2024

What the Tyson-Paul Fight Can Teach Us About Content

4 mins; November 16, 2024

Spotify is now PAYING Podcasters!

2 mins; November 15, 2024

Could Podcasts Decide The Election?

2 mins; November 01, 2024

What Podcasters Say Matter

2 mins; October 04, 2024

Remembering September 11th, 2001

6 mins; September 11, 2024

Podcast Movement 2024: What I Learned About Audio Metrics and YouTube's Importance

6 mins; August 26, 2024

Show Me The (Podcast) Money!

4 mins; August 15, 2024

Has Podcasting Caught AM/FM Talk Radio?

2 mins; July 16, 2024

Podcasts Are Like Puppies

2 mins; July 09, 2024

3 Podcast Mistakes to Avoid

2 mins; June 17, 2024

Audio or Video Podcast: How To Split The Difference

2 mins; June 05, 2024

Spotify For Podcasters is Changing (Again)

3 mins; May 30, 2024

The Current State of Podcasting

4 mins; May 24, 2024

The Case for Long Podcasts

3 mins; May 01, 2024

What Does A TikTok Ban Mean For Your Podcast?

2 mins; April 25, 2024

How CBS Screwed Up Billy Joel's Concert and What We Can Learn

4 mins; April 16, 2024

iHeart's Shady Podcast Deal with Ted Cruz

3 mins; April 16, 2024

Google Podcasts Gone, Transcripts in Apple, and Infinte Dial Listening Data

5 mins; April 03, 2024

Don't "Curt Schilling" Your Podcast

4 mins; October 05, 2023

The End of Google Podcasts: What You Need to Know

2 mins; September 27, 2023

YouTube Podcast Strategy and Other Podcast Movement 2023 Takeways

12 mins; September 05, 2023

Goodbye Stitcher, Twitter Rebrands

2 mins; July 27, 2023

What I Do

2 mins; June 14, 2023

I Used AI To Create This Whole 3 Minute Podcast

3 mins; June 08, 2023

3 Ways To Make Your Podcast like Ted Lasso and Succession (Spoiler Alert)

3 mins; June 01, 2023

Promote Your Show on Other Podcasts, But DON'T Make it Exclusive!

3 mins; May 24, 2023

Why my Lululemon Pants are like finding a new podcast

3 mins; May 18, 2023

What If Your Guest Wants To Add Something?

2 mins; April 27, 2023

Why Your Podcast Needs YouTube and An Email List

2 mins; April 21, 2023

What Podcasting Can Learn From Baseball

3 mins; April 06, 2023

YouTube Podcasts and More March Podcasting News

4 mins; March 28, 2023

2023 Podcast Predictions

61 hours 6 mins; January 05, 2023

Happy 2023, Podcasters!

5 mins; January 02, 2023

10-ish Podcasting News Stories From The Last Month

3 mins; November 16, 2022

Bonus: WJPZ at 50 Podcast Trailer

2 mins; November 07, 2022

8 Things Disney World Can Teach You About Your Podcast

5 mins; November 02, 2022

Are Podcasts Coming to TikTok?

2 mins; October 20, 2022

How Spotify's Greed Cost People Their Jobs

3 mins; October 13, 2022

Audacy's Problems Spread to Radio and Podcasting

4 mins; October 07, 2022

Is iHeart Scamming the Podcasting Industry?

5 mins; September 29, 2022

When Should I Release My Podcast?

4 mins; September 23, 2022

What Shane Hawkins Can Teach Us About Podcasting

4 mins; September 15, 2022

Lessons from Podcast Movement 2022

11 mins; September 08, 2022

Podfade Happened To Me Too

2 mins; June 28, 2022

How Matt Got to Episode 300 (Podcast Superfriends)

62 hours 54 mins; May 24, 2022

JAG on The ROCC Pod - Royal Oak Chamber

29 mins; May 04, 2022

What Can Elon Musk and Twitter Do For Podcasting?

16 mins; April 28, 2022

Repurposing Webinars as Podcasts

44 mins; April 22, 2022

iHeart, Podcasting, and NFT's

6 mins; April 15, 2022

New Podcasting Stats and Tools

3 mins; April 08, 2022

I'm a Radio DJ Again...Sort Of

4 mins; March 30, 2022

Find Out How Many Followers Your Show Has

5 mins; March 22, 2022

Being Good Beats Being a Celebrity

4 mins; March 17, 2022

Can I Find Your Podcast?

3 mins; March 01, 2022

Should My podcast Have A QR Code?

3 mins; February 15, 2022

Can I Use Commercial Music in My Podcast? (2022)

3 mins; February 08, 2022

Spotify's Biggest Problem Isn't Joe Rogan

3 mins; January 31, 2022

How to Start a Podcast in 2022

59 mins; January 14, 2022

Start Your Podcast for Under $100

2 mins; January 03, 2022

How to Use a Blue Yeti - If You're Stuck with One

3 mins; December 01, 2021

Do Podcast Ratings and Reviews Matter

2 mins; November 23, 2021

The Rise of Spoken Word Audio, By The Numbers

2 mins; November 18, 2021

It Shouldn't Hurt to Be a Child

2 mins; November 12, 2021

Apple vs Spotify Redux

3 mins; November 03, 2021

Will Amazon Change The Audio Landscape?

2 mins; October 28, 2021

There Are No Podcasting Cheat Codes

2 mins; October 21, 2021

Why I Stopped Doing Video for My Podcast

2 mins; October 14, 2021

The Many Fails of Facebook

3 mins; October 06, 2021

Why You Can't Trust Joe Rogan

3 mins; September 22, 2021

What Should I Charge for Ads on My Podcast

3 mins; September 14, 2021

How Ted Lasso Can Help Your Podcast

3 mins; September 08, 2021

Are Show Notes Important?

2 mins; September 01, 2021

Is Apple Finally Getting Its Act Together?

4 mins; August 25, 2021

Your Podcast Needs To Be Everywhere

4 mins; August 18, 2021

What I Learned At Podcast Movement

10 mins; August 12, 2021

Podcast Movement 2021 Day 1 Recap

4 mins; August 04, 2021

Is Your Content Worth Paying For?

5 mins; July 29, 2021

More Steps Forward - and Back - For Radio

4 mins; July 22, 2021

Is Your Audacity App Spyware?

5 mins; July 15, 2021

How to Record Your Podcast Over Zoom - If You Have To

5 mins; July 01, 2021

Facebook Launches Podcasts - Sort of?

3 mins; June 24, 2021

A Lesson from Wheel of Fortune

4 mins; June 17, 2021

The 7 Deadly Sins of Podcasting

7 mins; June 09, 2021

Will Celebrities Ruin Podcasting?

4 mins; June 03, 2021

Don't Be A Jerk

6 mins; May 27, 2021

Your Podcast Isn't About You

4 mins; May 19, 2021

Make Changes To Your Podcast - It's Not Too Late!

5 mins; May 12, 2021

Apple Podcasts Drama Continues

5 mins; May 05, 2021

Will Apple Podcasts Changes Affect Me?

6 mins; April 29, 2021

Beware Bad Content

5 mins; April 15, 2021

Stop Asking for Podcast Ratings and Reviews!

8 mins; April 08, 2021

The Death of Music Radio

12 mins; April 02, 2021

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