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Dave Jackson

Dave Jackson has been helping people launch podcasts since 2005 and every Saturday he is joined by Jim Collison to is runs the Average Guy Network. Together they have 20 years of podcasting...

Episodes

20 of 581 episodes

Trick or Threat: Keeping Your Podcast and Website Safe This Halloween

Send us feedback/questions via Text It’s Halloween, and the scariest thing on this episode isn’t a costume. Jim is back from Brazil with an...

65:33Oct 31, 2026

How to Keep Your Podcast Creative, Authentic, and Free from Common Pitfalls

Send us feedback/questions via Text Today I'm joined by Neal Veglio of Podmastery.co as Jim is in Brazil. Are you struggling to find the swe...

63:57Oct 24, 2026

My Guest Is Ruining The Podcast Recording!

Send us feedback/questions via Text What do you do when your mic won’t work, a guest keeps tapping the desk, or life throws a furnace breakd...

57:31Oct 17, 2026

Upon Further Review: Taking a Second Look at Your Past Episodes

Send us feedback/questions via Text This week Dave and Jim dig into the messy, human side of podcasting — Jim debuts a brand-new recurring s...

56:42Oct 10, 2026

Is Podcast Advertising Doomed?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Adam Curry asked an AI agent to download the latest episode of a popular podcast and remove the ads. Eig...

58:38Oct 3, 2026

Auphonic's New Studio Voice Beta

Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave is back from Podcast Movement in New York City with a full report on the new venue, the split busin...

60:57Sep 26, 2026

Embedding Live Streams to Reinforce Your Brand

Send us feedback/questions via Text What do you do when YouTube dies mid-livestream, a fire alarm goes off in your office, and a guest sits...

62:54Sep 12, 2026

Hobbies Cost Money - Quit Wasting Your Time

Send us feedback/questions via Text It's Labor Day weekend, but Dave and Jim aren't taking one off from the AI rabbit hole — this episode co...

57:56Sep 5, 2026

Conferences and Communities: Why Go? How to Build?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave and Jim spent most of the show riffing on conferences and community, sparked by Dave's recent trip...

60:28Aug 29, 2026

Zero to Sixty Podcast

Send us feedback/questions via Text Everyone wants the 10,000-download podcast, but almost nobody wants to talk about how you actually get t...

59:21Aug 15, 2026

How Do I Get People To Fill Out My Survey

Send us feedback/questions via Text One way to grow your show is to make sure people like your show. So you put out a survey, but nobody pro...

63:15Aug 8, 2026

From Recorded to Live: Should You Switch?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Today we help Ralph who does a daily show that he records, and is switching to a daily show recorded liv...

62:59Aug 1, 2026

Promotions May Need a Longer Runway

Send us feedback/questions via Text Today Dave and Jim talk about the examples movies are providing by releasing trailers months in advance....

61:19Jul 25, 2026

What's one piece of podcasting advice that turned out to be completely wrong for you?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Today I'm joined by Jennifer Longworth from Bourbon Barrel Podcasting (she's an editor who has been doin...

59:17Jul 18, 2026

Picking the Right Streaming Platform: Streamyard, Ecamm, EVMux, and OBS Compared

Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave and Jim share their thoughts and experiences with streaming platforms like Streamyard, Ecamm, EVMux...

62:04Jul 11, 2026

A Podcast Launch Doesn't Start Until You Tell Someone

Send us feedback/questions via Text Today we talk about how your show can be in all the directories, but until you start telling everyone yo...

62:39Jul 4, 2026

Are You Confusing Your Audience with Split Tests?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave Jackson and Jim Collison are back with another lively Saturday morning, ready to answer all your po...

61:28Jun 30, 2026

Pressure Free Podcasting

Send us feedback/questions via Text So we are still playing with EVMux (which locked up on me 4 minutes into the show) and we explored why v...

60:15Jun 20, 2026

Experimenting with EvMux

Send us feedback/questions via Text I like Ecamm. When I bought it, I was will to pay for a tool that helped me make lessons for the School...

86:48Jun 13, 2026

AMP Measurement: Does Anyone Care?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Today we start of talking about the new AMP measurements that were unveiled. Do we care? Will anyone imp...

92:10Jun 6, 2026