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Ewan Spence

@ewanspence.co.uk

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Scottish storyteller in online, media and tech; podcasting, smartphones, music, Eurovision, retro gaming, Scotland's baseball scorer, (he/him), #freelance #cats #podcaster #smartphones #forbes #eurovision #music #EliteDangerous ewanspence.co.uk/blog

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · Feb 21

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 11h

And at some point that won't be enough for publishers and are forced to run Amazon every month.

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Obligatory Hallow’Iain Joke Here Pls @iainhepburn.me · 16h

Well, that works for me.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 20h

Isn't that like 95% of the work that the interns used to do?

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

a man in a suit says it 's war in front of a tv screen

Alt: a man in a suit says it 's war in front of a tv screen

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

Now, can you test this with accompaniment from a Stylophone?

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

Always worth testing with something you definitely know the answer to, when you know the mistakes in "how did x work" you trust "how did y work?"a little bit less (and rightly so).

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

I see what you did there...

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

Open source "ethos" ... yep, sigh.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 1d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 1d

Martin Fry.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

It's surely "New York Mining Disaster 1941."

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

/me waves. That's the UK game on Sky just now!

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

The open nature of podcasting is a benefit and a curse. You don't, as a listener, have to give up second-by-second analysis and demographic data if you are in the RSS/Open space. Move to a proprietary client like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds; anonimity is lost, control goes to the megacorps

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

...and the full episode for comparison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2R0...

My Cat's Tale - Morgan And His Wardrobe

YouTube video by My Cat's Tale

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

Exactly! Here's how I did it on My Cat's Tale, directly lifted out of the cold open and run as a YouTube Short www.youtube.com/shorts/p0fmN...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

Oh and a little bonus, if it's a bit of a preview, or some quotes from the episode, it makes a fantastic thirty-second trailer for Instagram, Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc, with minimal increased resource cost in your production flow.

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

There are lots of ways to do it "This is FernPod Number 27," "It's Monday the seventh of August," "Tonight, on Top Gear," etc. The big advantage? It engages the brain of the listeners, have I heard this one, ooh, this is new, what happens next? etc.

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

...think how Thunderbirds . Space 1999 / new Battlestar Galctica open. You have a brief bit of constant identity, you have a tease for what's coming up in this show, then you get the theme tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylvj... That IMO is a great skeleton for a podcast.

"THUNDERBIRDS" Opening Credits | Crackle Classic TV | THEME SONG

YouTube video by Crackle

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

I cannot credit who suggested this one (brain+epilepsy+time), but some of the best advice I have on podcasting is "make sure the first few seconds is identifiable as a different episode, so people can skip through your playlist to find the new one." Preroll ads and padding are not the way...

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 3d

54 more than I have!

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Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 4d

Too much too much faffing abart faffing abart?

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 4d

Very much in agreement with this. It's not just the time it takes to prepare and get a launch ready (and yes, I'm in the middle of doing that just now for some baseball/sports fun), but the ongoing cost in time and resources to prep, record, edit, and promote each episode balanced against any income

Ewan Spence @ewanspence.co.uk · 4d

A good recap of the tension in the podcasting community and the podcasting industry. Hard to disagree with most of this.

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 5d

The British Podcast Awards featured a strange “glitch” that everyone found amusing; but has interesting implications. Most of the winners were upstairs in the cheap balcony seats, meaning there was a few minutes’ delay on almost EVERY award as the winners went down the back stairs to the stage. >>

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