The Jag Show: Podcast Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
Podcast and radio veteran Jon "JAG" Gay provides tips, tricks, and best practices for you and your podcast. By day, JAG launches and improves podcasts for financial advisors, small businesses, nonprofits, and corporate communications departments. His company rebranded from JAG in Detroit Podcasts to JAG Podcast Productions in August, 2025.
After 15 years as a radio DJ and program director, and now 8 as a podcast host and producer, he brings over two decades of audio experience and perspective to the podcasting world.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 181
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Podcast Editor In Chief Steve Stewart
Steve Stewart runs the "Podcast Editors Club" Facebook group, with over 5,000 members.
Steve joins me today to talk about how he got into podcast editing, and finding a niche in the financial sector…
When To Break Format
Usually my Tuesday episodes are 30 minute interviews. This week's was an hour. I explain my thought process here.
Black podcasting awards: https://blackpodawards.com/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_mediu…
Mistress Carrie on WAAF, being embedded with troops, and moving her brand to podcasting
For decades, Mistress Carrie entertained - and bonded with - the masses on legendary Boston rock station WAAF. Earlier this year, the station was sold, ending its 50 year run on the air. Carrie tak…
Don't Let The Robots Take Over
James Cridland of Podnews had a great write-up yesterday on the debate around podcast transcripts: https://podnews.net/article/podcast-transcripts-why-and-when?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=email…
Melissa's Journey to 400 Thousand Downloads
Registered Dietitian Melissa Joy Dobbins is The Guilt Free RD and her podcast Sound Bites just went over 400,000 total downloads. Today, she explains how she started, how she got there, and the conv…
Get Comfortable and Know Your Audience
This week has me thinking about two important aspects of creating a podcast.
- Be comfortable - my setup and neck taught me this the hard way.
- Know your audience, and the difference between a private and…
Johnny Peterson - Straight Up Podcasts
I first met Johnny Peterson from Straight Up Podcasts at Podcast Movement in Orlando last summer - you know, in the old days when we could travel. Since then, we've both joined a podcast editors' di…
My 2014 Ryan Seacrest Interview
In my upcoming (June 2) episode of The Jag Show Podcast, I tell Johnny Peterson about my worst audio mistake ever, blowing an entire interview with Ryan Seacrest. Ryan was gracious enough to let me …
Don't Sweat The Downloads
Joe Rogan feels "gross." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/joe-rogan-spotify-podcast.html?login=email&auth=login-email
James Cridland - podcast was never an open ecosystem to begin with! http…
Why Social Isn't Enough To Promote Your Podcast
Earlier this month, Tim O'Brien of O'Brien Communications in Pittsburgh wrote a great piece in Podcast Business Journal, "Social Media Alone Is Not The Way To Grow An Audience." Link: https://podcast…
Podcast Listening Rebounds, Joe Rogan to Spotify, and Call Her Daddy Drama
Three big stories in podcasting this week...
The folks at Podtrac say that for the 4th and 5th weeks, podcast download and audience growth is up for the 4th and 5th straight weeks, respectively. This…
Boston Pod Guru David Yas
Really enjoyed chatting with the guy who does what I do - but in the town I grew up in. David Yas runs Pod617, the Boston Podcast Network. We begin with his eclectic background as a lawyer, in the n…
Bonus: My 2014 Interview With Mick Foley
Tomorrow (May 19th), I'll be releasing my interview with David Yas, of Pod617 and The Boston Podcast network. We discussed the art of interviewing, and I referenced the one interview I did where I j…
Why Downloads Shouldn't Be Your Priority
I find myself often falling into that trap of judging myself on my download numbers, as most podcasters do, and I have to remind myself that downloads aren't the priority of my podcast. I had clear …
YaYa Podcasting's Carrie Caufield Arick
I was thrilled to talk with Carrie Caufield Arick, one of the first podcast editors and coaches I met in the space. You name it, she does it - editing, coaching, consulting, workshops, helping run a…
New Podcast Tools
Google is continuing to play catch-up with Apple and Spotify - now launching their own podcast manager to give you detailed analytics on your shows. Super easy to set up - you just need a Google acc…
From The Vault: How Don Found His Birth Family at Age 58
Today, I'm going into the vault to bring you my first podcast interview - with former coworker Don Banks, of iHeartMedia in New Orleans. Don, through Ancestry DNA, found his birth family, at age 58.…
Its Gonna Be May
Matty Staudt says your intro matters. And he's right.
Which podcast advertisers are spending more in the age of Coronavirus? Magellan is out with a list of their Top 10, as published on Medium.
5 - fu…
Podcast OG Evo Terra Consumed Only Beer and Sausages For A Month
And he lost weight doing it! We'll get to that later.
Evo Terra is an OG in the world of podcasting. While Apple has just gone over a million shows, Evo is credited with having the 40th podcast...ev…
Adventures in Remote Recording
There are now 1,000,000 podcasts in Apple.
Rob Walch of Libsyn says desktop listening is up a point to 12%
I've discovered in remote recording that Apple Airpods only sound good - when paired with an…