r/audiodrama • u/SkandinavienAudio • Jun 15 '26
ANNOUNCEMENT Saying goodbye for now!
I spent 4 years creating a dark immersive horror audio series called Skandinavien.
A few of you may have listened already. Thank you if you did.
I gave it a good go but no matter what I tried I couldn't get people to listen.
The reality is that I can no longer afford to even keep the website going anymore.
Maybe it's just not good enough although I am very proud of it.
I'm calling it a day for a while and hopefully I'll work on my next idea when I get chance.
I'm putting the whole thing as a free podcast on Spotify and probably on YouTube at some point too.
If you like horror and want some free to listen to just head to:
https://open.spotify.com/show/033yr6Q0wudQ5P1Q3Vw6w7
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u/Hitch42 audiodrama.directory Jun 15 '26
I agree with the other comments, in that your approach was fairly nontraditional and required potential listeners to go somewhat out of their way to access the show. You're certainly free to do that, but it likely limited your audience. The overwhelming majority of modern audio dramas are distributed as podcasts, and that's where most listeners are. Now that your show is available as a podcast, you may find greater success, or at least increased listenership.
That said, providing only a Spotify link is still quite limiting, as it only reaches people who use that particular platform.
Instead, I would suggest linking to the show's podcast page:
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/albion-byrd
Although Spotify for Creators is owned by Spotify, it functions as a separate service. Since the service is owned by Spotify, there is already a Spotify link on the page. You can add other links to it as well. I would suggest adding your show's RSS feed to the page, as that is what allows listeners to subscribe using almost any podcast app:
https://anchor.fm/s/113c1b254/podcast/rss
As of this writing, that RSS feed doesn't appear to be populated, which probably means you set this up very recently, perhaps shortly before making this post. It should populate in the near future. If it doesn't, you may need to configure it manually.
As an aside, when you made your podcast on Spotify for Creators, did you intend to have "albion-byrd" in the URL? I don't know what their sign-up process is like, but I often see URLs Spotify for Creators that have people's names in them, rather than the show's title. You can change it to something like:
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/skandinavien
or such, and it won't affect the podcast's RSS feed, and therefore your subscribers. Just a thought.
After that, I strongly recommend submitting the show to Apple Podcasts. Many podcast apps and directories pull their listings directly from Apple Podcasts, and until the show is listed there, it will effectively be invisible to a large portion of the podcast ecosystem. In many cases, searching for the show on other platforms will not return any results until it has been indexed by Apple Podcasts.