YouTube Podcast Strategy for Founders: Don't Treat it as Apple and Spotify
Uploading the video version of your podcast to YouTube doesn't automatically mean you have a YouTube strategy. If you're using the same title as Spotify, putting your guest's face on the thumbnail, keeping the same opening, and waiting for YouTube to find an audience, you're mostly distributing the same episode to another platform.
Read the full article + examples HERE.
In this episode, I break down how I think founders should approach YouTube podcast strategy differently from Apple Podcasts and Spotify, from titles and thumbnails to the first 30–60 seconds, visual editing, and the way strangers discover your episodes. We also get into why a clear promise isn't clickbait, why serious founder podcasts don't need to become over-edited “YouTube sludge,” and how your existing podcast catalogue can become another discovery route into your business.
Timestamps
00:00 Uploading to YouTube isn't a YouTube strategy
01:19 Why YouTube is different from podcast apps
02:08 Your podcast is competing with everything on YouTube
03:29 Idea, title, visual and promise
03:55 Why your YouTube and Apple titles can be different
05:12 A clear promise isn't clickbait
05:49 Why podcast openings matter more on YouTube
08:22 Don't turn your founder podcast into “YouTube sludge”
09:31 Using YouTube to give old episodes another discovery route
10:43 How to diagnose a podcast that isn't working on YouTube
11:31 The stranger test for your YouTube episodes
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Related Episodes
EP07 — Your Founder Podcast Is Good. So Why Is Nobody Clicking?
The IDEA → TITLE → VISUAL → PROMISE framework for packaging podcast episodes.
EP06 — Is an Audio-Only Podcast Still Enough for Your Business in 2026?
Why adding video isn't automatically the right move and what to consider before changing your format.
