Lights, Cameras, and Microphones
Breaking Into Podcasts, Livestreams, and Video
A one-day conference focused on podcasting, livestreaming, video in New Orleans, Louisiana with Amy Wilson, Margaret Ables, Natasha Samuel, Jennifer Borget, and Jen Goode.
Content creators, bloggers, and influencers must all adapt and adjust to our ever-changing industry and new expectations. Are video and podcasts tools you should consider adding to your repertoire? According to the latest statistics, yes! 165 million Americans listen to podcasts now. Livestreams get six times the interactions as regular videos, and ten times the amount of comments. Two billion people are watching Facebook LIVE videos each day. And Instagram Stories? 500 million people watch what gets posted on those feeds as well.
The numbers don’t lie, don’t miss these opportunities to attract a wider audience. If you’re apprehensive about how to get started with livestreams and podcasts, we have experienced speakers that will share what and how they’ve been doing to take advantage of these platforms.
Our speakers will share how they adapted these new trends into their already thriving businesses. Brands, small business owners, and content creators alike can use video and podcasts to share high-quality, relevant content with a different kind of effort and ability that writing requires. If you’re not taking advantage of video and podcasting platforms yet, perhaps it’s time to explore both more. If you‘ve been listening to podcasts or watching videos and want to start creating your own, join our FLOCK in New Orleans!
Featured speakers
Amy Wilson is co-host of What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood, a top Parenting, Kids, and Family podcast on Apple Podcasts with 2 million downloads to date.
She is the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, The Worrier, The Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be (HarperCollins), for which she was chosen as an “Emerging Author” by Target. She is also the creator of Mother Load, a one-woman show which she toured to 16 cities after its hit off-Broadway run. As an actor, Amy also co-starred in The Last Night of Ballyhoo on Broadway, appeared as a series regular on two sitcoms (Daddio on NBC and Norm on ABC), and wrote and performed sketch comedy for NBC’s Live on Tape, which filmed in Saturday Night Live’s studios. She has guest-starred in many other TV shows and films. For six years she directed the New York City production of Listen To Your Mother, a 40-city series of live readings in honor of Mother’s Day. She has written for magazines like Redbook and Parenting, and websites like CNN, NPR, and The New York Times. She and her husband (named David) raise their three children in New York City.
Margaret Ables is co-host of What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood, a top Parenting, Kids, and Family podcast on Apple Podcasts with 2 million downloads to date.
She is a comedian and writer whose work has appeared on MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and PBS. Margaret began her career as a comic performer touring the country with fully-improvised sketch show Tonight as Six. She next created the two-woman sketch show Various Getups which played at festivals across the United States and Europe. Margaret’s career in television began with MTV’s Celebrity Death Match, followed by shows such as Big, Big World and Cheyenne at 15. Margaret has created television shows for Klasky Csupo (creators of “Rugrats”) and was the head of video production for Nickelodeon’s mom-centric channel NickMom. Margaret also teaches improv and public speaking through the NY based program Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She and her husband (also named David) live in Westchester, NY with their three children.
Natasha is the founder of Sol Studio, an Instagram creative studio that specializes storytelling and strategy. She offers small businesses and creative entrepreneurs Instagram content creation, strategy sessions, and educational resources. She helps clients shine on social media through effective strategies and intentional execution. Natasha serves her followers with video tutorials that share how to use the latest social media updates to shine online.
Jennifer Borget graduated with a degree in Communications from Brigham Young University, where she met and married her husband at the ripe old age of (almost) 19. She is a former journalist, and currently living her best life as a creator and mom of two. She loves writing, photography, and making videos. Jennifer works to make a difference and encourages others to cherish every day on Cherish 365, which has won awards for Best Photography and 2018 Mom Blog of the Year. She is constantly generating more ideas, and hopes her readers and followers find the inspiration to cherish their daily lives and document it through photographs, words, and more.
Jen Goode is an Illustrator, Content Marketer and the Doodler in Charge at JGoode Designs, a Denver based Design studio. With over 20 years of art creation and project design experience, Jen’s work has been featured in a number of print and online publications and her illustrations have sold over $2 million in retail products. Working with partners like HP, Cricut, Amazon, and Beaches Resorts, Jen loves to craft solutions to consumer questions.
Jen is passionate about encouraging others to find and follow their own creative path. She writes content filled with tutorials and project ideas to help inspire others to try something new. Jen shares her love for art, travel, and food on her blog, 100 Directions.
Event location
“Designated by Congress as the official WWII museum of the United States, The National WWII Museum is located in downtown New Orleans on a six-acre campus, where five soaring pavilions house historical exhibits, on-site restoration work, a period dinner theater, and restaurants.”
What you can expect
- Learn how to get started with podcasting.
- Know what equipment to invest in to get going.
- Get introduced to the apps you can use.
- Learn how to turn video into a podcast.
- Figure out where to host and how to market your podcast and maximize its growth.
- Advance your skills in storytelling to stand out among your peers.
- Understand how your analytics and audience relate to growth on new platforms.
- Gain skills in editing, and best practices when capturing audio and video.
- Understand how to maximize live stream conversations, and create meaningful engagements.
- Learn how to create IGTV video content through planning, filming, editing, and optimizing your channel.
