How To Start, Grow and Monetise Your Podcast · Pod School

How to Grow Your Podcast on Spotify for Free

·14 min

James Burr and Alex Chisnell outline a three-part free growth strategy for Spotify podcasters: video integration, thumbnail optimization, and clip extraction. They reveal that 61% of listeners watch video content, challenge assumptions about consumption patterns, and promise a case study of 300K+ downloads generated from a single clip.

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Three Spotify levers and a concrete clip example keep the advice grounded.

It treats Spotify as a growth channel rather than a passive host, and the case for using newer platform tools is clear enough. James Burr and Alex Chisnell center the piece on three levers - video, thumbnails, and clips - and the strongest part is the clip example tied to at…

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You want Spotify to help you grow reach without spending a penny.

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