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If someone in your business has just told you that you need to do a video podcast and you're not sure whether to believe them, this episode is for you.
I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I break down why "you must add video" has quickly become the default advice in B2B podcasting — and why following it without a reason often gives you a more expensive podcast that still doesn't have a job.
We start with the home-office video makeover nobody needs: the relocated plant, the bookmarked gimbal, the colour calibration card in the post — on a show whose 24 episodes have never once come up in a sales conversation. Then we get to the part most "experts" skip: where your buyers actually are when they consume your content. Not at a desk, notepad ready. On a treadmill. At the side of a swimming pool, taking notes while their kid does lengths. You can't replicate that with video, and the intimacy of audio is doing commercial work long before any sales call happens.
This isn't an argument against video in principle. It's an argument against adding it reactively. There's a simple test — strip every visual from your episode and ask whether the listener still gets 100% of the insight — plus the cases where video genuinely completes the show, the attribution problem nobody talks about, this week's Founder FAQ on podcast bios (CV vs. sales tool), and a quick tip that will change how you write every episode description from now on.
Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk
Should Your B2B Podcast Add Video? (90-second decision tree) https://podknows.co.uk/video-decision
B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic
Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits
Timestamped summary
00:00 The Saturday-night home-office video makeover 00:52 Welcome to B2B Podcasting Insights 01:07 Where are your buyers actually consuming your content? 02:41 Why you can't replicate audio's intimacy with video 04:41 Making yourself watchable risks making yourself missable 04:47 "Our audience prefers video" — based on what? 06:30 This isn't anti-video — it's anti-video-without-a-reason 06:49 The test: strip every visual and see what's lost 07:47 When video completes the podcast instead of padding it 09:17 The fork in the road: add video or change the content 10:14 The attribution problem nobody talks about 11:50 A more expensive podcast that still has no job 12:11 The 90-second video decision tree 15:25 Founder FAQ: is your podcast bio a CV or a sales tool? 16:24 Quick tip: write for the "I'm not sure this is for me" buyer 17:54 Final thoughts
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If you've published a B2B podcast episode you were genuinely proud of, then watched it land to four downloads and two likes you suspect might be bots, this one's for you.
I'm Neal Veglio, and in this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights I break down why your best episode probably got almost zero shares, what that does and doesn't mean, and why publishing is not the finishing line in your content story.
I open with a confession: I watched my own argument, made weeks earlier on this very show, get repackaged by someone else and rack up hundreds of reshares and thousands of comments while my original barely moved. I wasn't angry. I was weirdly pleased, because it proved the idea worked, just not inside my own distribution system.
We look at the difference between content that gets shared (comfortable, affirming, validating) and content that gets saved, WhatsApped and referred (uncomfortable, specific, commercially valuable), why a referral from the right person beats 47 likes every time, and how to tell a distribution gap apart from a content failure so you don't go and fix the wrong thing.
There's also this week's Founder FAQ on seasons vs. publishing continuously, and a deceptively simple quick tip on episode length and completion rate.
Useful links Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk
B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic
Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits
Timestamped summary
00:00 The idea that wandered off and got famous somewhere else
03:52 Welcome — what this episode is really about
04:24 You nailed the episode, then the stats didn't move
06:44 What actually gets shared in B2B (and why it's useless for pipeline)
08:20 Shares vs. referrals: which one is actually worth money 11:11 My Diary of a CEO episode, and watching the idea get repurposed
12:55 Distribution gap vs. content failure (magic beans and the uneaten cake)
16:36 The only question worth asking: does the right person know it exists?
17:12 Founder FAQ: seasons vs. publishing continuously
22:20 Quick tip: stop padding episodes — completion rate is the signal
23:54 The Podknows Growth Diagnostic and audits
24:55 It's probably working offline

Yes, I attended The Podcast Show. Yes I had both good and bad things to say. (One of those things is pasted below from my LinkedIn)
But through it all, there was one super surprising benefit I discovered from going to The Podcast Show 2026. I really did NOT see this coming.

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The Podcast Show 2026 was ultimately epic. Let me go deeper, fam. Let's slide through the obvious stuff like the wonderful sense of community and camaraderie that exists among the many strangers and even those who are technically 'competitors'. This is one of my favourite things about the show. 10/10 — no notes. I'm going to say that I'm blown away by how seriously the event organisers take this show, and they only ever want to make it better each year. I also thoroughly enjoyed some of the perspectives from the stages. It wasn't a total pitchfest. And if anybody tried to schill their warez, the moderators did a fab job of keeping them back on point. (I felt for Katie Prescott from The Times who had the misfortune of moderating a panel with podcasting's perniciousness incarnate, Jeanine Wright. I mean, the tech ops had to actually resort to drowning her out with music to stop her in her delusional verbal tracks.) I won't say any more on that talk other than to acknowlege the loud and passionate criticisms from the baying audience which reassured my weeping heart. But there were a couple of negatives and it would be off-brand for me not to mention 'em. With iteration, someone, somewhere, is always going to be left slightly disappointed while others benefit. We see this in podcast production all the time – we make a tweak to improve content such as adding sound design or introducing structure, and there will always be someone who hates the new sound because it's no longer what they became comfortable with. So I accept that some of the things that I didn't enjoy as much are a subjective thing. Gone was the business stage – clearly didn't get the bums on seats last year – and so a big reason I enjoyed the event last year was disappeared. We move past that. It's one of those things. I also felt sad at how some of the people hosting talks clearly didn't know their audience. An example of this was a chat about the benefits of immersive sound design that was schilling Dolby as a tool. Now I'm not the biggest technical nerd in this space, but I'm pretty sure none of the podcast apps offer passthru of that standard, so that was a fairly pointless 25 minutes for anyone NOT considering running an audiobook on Audible. My biggest WTF moment was the one pictured. Head honcho from YouTube grabs three creatives who have seen success putting their podcasts on the platform. I'll say this, if a head of content can't project manage success in video podcasting at... well... The Guardian... then I'd have expected them to quit being in charge of content immediately, because it would suggest an incompetency problem. There we no receipts of before YouTube and after YouTube. Just a whole lot of 'trust me bro, we know what we're talking about' which too many lazy last-minute panellists tend to lean on. To be clear, this is a criticism of the individual speakers, NOT the event itself. In old money, definitely still a A+ event. Well done to all the team.
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There's a very specific kind of irony happening across B2B podcasting right now. Someone posts on LinkedIn about the urgent need to differentiate from competitors — gets hundreds of nodding comments, a few congratulatory pats on the shoulder — and then releases a podcast episode that sounds verrrrrry familiar.
Hi, I'm Neal Veglio, founder of Podknows Podcasting and host of B2B Podcasting Insights. And in this episode, I'm breaking down why copying the Diary of a CEO container is actively working against your buyers' trust — and what the one thing is that actually differentiates a B2B podcast. Spoiler: it's not your lighting rig.
Also in this episode:
Founder FAQ: Dominic from Norwich wants to know why his podcast guests never share the episode after recording — and what he can do about it
Quick Tip: The simple title strategy that will make every episode you publish sharper, more specific, and more honest than anything you planned in advance

If your show is built around looking successful rather than being useful, this one's going to sting slightly. In a productive way.
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If you've got a B2B podcast and a sales team — there's a fairly good chance they've never properly met.
That sounds absurd. And yet it's almost universal.
Hi, I'm Neal Veglio, founder of Podknows Podcasting. We're a podcast agency helping B2B businesses and founders enjoy better results from their podcast.
In this episode of B2B Podcasting Insights, I'm explaining why the most valuable thing most B2B podcasting strategies are missing isn't more content — it's a single conversation between two teams that should have happened months ago.
Whether you're a founder, a CMO, or a sales leader wondering why your expert positioning isn't converting — this episode will change how you think about what your podcast is actually for.

Useful links
Podknows Website https://podknows.co.uk
B2B Podcast Growth Diagnostic https://podknows.co.uk/diagnostic
Podcast Audits https://podknows.co.uk/audits
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Timestamped chapters
00:00 The fantasy inbound call
01:51 The podcast sales crime scene
03:54 Why marketing and sales missed each other
05:19 The meeting that never happens
06:37 What good looks like on a sales call
08:39 Your 10-minute podcast deployment playbook
10:40 Founder FAQ: Fred Copestake on sales vs. marketing
15:31 Quick tip: when to ask for a follow
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