Monday, June 8, 2026

The Scot Goes Popcast is now available on Apple Podcasts

I hope this will be of some use to someone, because it's taken me days of torture to get to this point.  Apple may be one of the largest companies in the world, but its website is a baffling, bug-ridden mess.  Five long years after my first failed attempt, I finally seem to have navigated all of the exotic obstacles and got the Scot Goes Popcast onto Apple Podcasts, and you can find it HERE.  And before anyone asks, it's already on Spotify and has been since 2021.  It suddenly seems to be on quite a few other podcast platforms as well, although in most cases I'm not entirely sure that was my own doing.

Just to be clear about what the Popcast actually is, it's basically audio versions of some of my YouTube videos from the last year or so (not all of them), plus the back catalogue from 2021-22 when I was making a conventional podcast intended primarily for audio, although I later stuck the majority of the episodes on YouTube anyway.  In most of those, I was interviewing guests, including the likes of Tim Rideout, Alex Salmond and Len Pennie.  

Bear in mind that in contrast to the YouTube videos, I will not be receiving any passive advertising revenues from the audio-only uploads, so putting the Popcast on Apple could in a sense end up being harmful if it diverts any traffic away from my YouTube channel.  So if you'd like to help keep the content I produce sustainable, just a reminder that I now have a Ko-Fi page, where you can either set up a small recurring monthly subscription, or make a one-off donation.  

Thank you to the several people who urged me to keep trying with Apple - it would have been annoying to be defeated by the glitches.
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3 comments:

  1. FactolaJune 8, 2026 at 2:23 AM

    Orkney and Shetland combined are known as the One O'Clock Gang.

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  2. AnonymousJune 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM

    Just wrote you a five star review, James. Thanks for publishing this where the rest of us can find it!

    If you listen to other podcasts, you'll find the dominant model now is paid memberships: essentially a paywall for extra content beyond the main pod, which is best mentioned as a teaser at the end, reminding people what they’re missing. No need for irritating ads that way, and by all accounts it works, even with the existing Scottish politics audience.

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    1. James KellyJune 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM

      "Just wrote you a five star review, James."

      Thank you! It's much appreciated.

      "If you listen to other podcasts, you'll find the dominant model now is paid memberships: essentially a paywall for extra content beyond the main pod"

      I've already decided not to go down the paywall road - that was pretty much the main reason why I chose to persevere with YouTube rather than switch to Substack. The Ko-Fi page is essentially a substitute for a paywall - people can still set up small monthly subscriptions, but on a purely voluntary basis, so all the content remains freely available to everyone. However, there is an option to set up paid memberships on YouTube itself, and I noticed one prominent Scottish YouTuber who doesn't offer his paid members any premium content at all, but simply gives them a sort of badge so that they stand out if they contribute to the comments section. So if all else fails maybe I'll start appealing to people's vanity in that way - who knows, maybe even KC would end up as a paid subscriber just so he can get his Nessie posts noticed.

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