How to Avoid Vibrator Commercials On Your Podcast – Say NO to Free Media Hosting

I have never been a fan of using free hosting. To me (IMHO) its not professional. I wouldn't buy a car from someone selling it out of a tent. I want someone who has made a commitment and I know is going to be around. The other reason is somewhere you are going to get bombarded with ads. I was on Linked in and someone had posted an interesting headline to a podcast they had recorded. 

At the top of his post instead of showing the name of the podcast I saw an ad for podomatic (A service I DO NOT recommend – see this video to understand why).  It read “PodOmatic| Best Free Podcasts. That screams professional right?

Then I went over to listen to it. Remember the ads I mentioned? They put on a slide show as you listen to the audio of numerous ads. Best of all one of them is for “The Black Box vibrator.”  There was a mention of Turbine engines, so I did a google search on the black box vibrator, and was thrown into a sea of falic symbols. I think the “Cougar Div” was also a pretty big top off that were weren't talking Turbines here. 

 John MaGuirk is the podcaster who produced this. I'm not sure  John is aware that there are dildo commercials in his podcast (he is now), but John is doing a BUSINESS podcast. Surely John should know to put your best foot forward. By using podomatic you:

1. Have their brand put over yours when linking to “your” webpage on their site” 

2. Have dildos advertised in your business podcast.

To me, this is not the best foot to put forward. 

Podcast Media Hosting Services I Use

I use libsyn.com for this podcast, and I use blubrry.com for others. Both are run by podcasters – for podcasters, and have excellent customer service and stats. You can use this with you own website (which you can own for $8 a month). This means you total expense for putting together a podcast is going to be between $20 and $30 (that the TOTAL including  both media hosting and website hosting). 

Why Free Services Are Bad For You

Watch this video to explain how using a free service can really end up shooting you in the foot. For the record, I no long recommend using Feeburner unless its absolutely necessary. 

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