Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs
Everything you want to know about working with Larj Media, from what Podcast-First™ actually means to what a production partnership looks like in practice.
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What is Podcast-First™?
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Podcast-First™ means your podcast is more than a channel. It’s a smarter way for impact-driven organizations to turn their podcast into the content source that feeds all their channels.
Here’s how it works:
1. Your podcast is your central content hub
Everything starts here. The podcast becomes your richest, most content-dense asset—the source of stories, strategy, and insight. It’s the backbone of your content ecosystem.
2. Harvest strategically and repurpose efficiently
Instead of simply repackaging your podcast, you extract the essence—powerful quotes, narrative threads, key themes—and build new, purpose-fit assets from them. Harvesting is intentional. It’s about building smart, aligned content from a single high-quality source.
3. Foster collaboration and alignment across your teams
Bring in contributions from your whole organization. Invite comms, development, leadership, and program staff into the process. The podcast becomes a shared tool that brings people together around a unified narrative.
4. Maximize attention
Podcasting earns sustained, focused attention, which is the true gold standard metric. When people listen deeply, they remember, relate, advocate and take action.
5. Reduce total marketing costs
Instead of creating new content from scratch each time, you build systems that stretch the value of each episode. You save time and budget without sacrificing quality or consistency.
6. Show up with one voice
When the podcast drives your content, everything else syncs—your social, your emails, your messaging. You sound like one organization with one clear purpose.
We’ve seen this approach change the game:
The podcast became the anchor for a year-long campaign
The container for executive thought leadership
The driver of a narrative reset for a growing movement
The “source of truth” for a distributed team
It works because it’s practical, scalable, and aligned with how impact-driven organizations like to work and communicate, with clarity, depth, and care.
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You have a blog, a YouTube channel, a social media engine churning out clever content on the daily, why do you need a podcast? Well, you might not.
But if you’d like to spend 20 – 40 minutes at a time, maybe weekly, in the ear of your customer holding their full attention, then a podcast might be of value to your brand.
Podcasts are additive to a brand’s marketing mix, giving a brand a deeply engaging way to reach their customers in places they’ve never been reachable before.
Want to learn more about how a podcast could benefit your brand? Check out our case study on branded podcasting.
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Have your employees stopped reading the company newsletter? An internal podcast can be a great way to engage with your busy and on-the-go teams by offering a way an alternative way to tune in when and where it suits them.
Many companies are using the medium to support company culture and get out messaging in a convenient and human way. For more info check out: 5 Reasons Why Your Internal Comms Should Be a Podcast.
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Production & Process
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We believe a podcast is an investment in your brand’s future and its ability to "own the conversation." Our production costs are tailored to the unique goals and scale of each mission and message.
We don’t have a "budget version" of quality. The primary drivers of your investment actually come down to the complexity of the collaboration and the depth of the creative process, and ultimately whether we help you take your production in-house, or we handle the majority or all of the production.
Stakeholder Alignment: The more voices involved in the approval process, the more intensive the project management, scheduling, and revision rounds become. We scale our fees based on whether we are working with a single founder or a multi-departmental corporate team requiring tiered sign-offs.
Production Logistics: Costs are also influenced by the "where" and "who." Are we recording in our professional Seattle studio, capturing remote high-fidelity audio, a combo, or managing on-site recording lounges at a global conference?
High-Visibility Talent Management: Working with "A-list" hosts and guests requires more than just a calendar invite. It requires a sophisticated level of briefing, coaching, and technical hand-holding. For these hosts and guests, our senior-level team takes point on ensuring your high-profile talent is prepped, comfortable, and positioned to give their best performance. This white-glove service protects your brand’s reputation and ensures every minute of their time is used effectively.
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Our Jumpstart program takes about 6 – 8 weeks to complete and once it’s done, you’ll have a trailer plus your first episode. We recommend having a few episodes “in the can” before you start publishing. Once in full production, plan on allowing about 3 – 4 months from concept to launching your first episode.
Give us a shout to talk about how we can do to get your podcast in the ears of your audience ASAP!
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We have all the capabilities to maximize the value of video in our productions by offering both full episodes and video shorts to be used across all social platforms. We always align the video messaging strategy with the overall comms strategy, so we strike the appropriate balance between audio and video.
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Strategy & ROI
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At Larj Media, we work with brands, thought leaders and change makers who have an audience their building, engaging with and expanding their digital presence.
A podcast is about building affinity, engagement and customer loyalty with your audience. Direct ROI is a longer game but it pays off in spades for those that dive in.
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Technology & AI
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We’re committed to staying on top of the ever-expanding evolution of AI and use these tools throughout the publishing process. They help us manage production costs for our clients as we find efficiencies, and give the team time and space to focus on story, production quality, and client relationships.
Some of the tools we use:
Descript – transcriptions, editing
Claude - as a partner in our creative story telling
Co-Pilot – AI Agent building for story scouting and post-production/publishing
We DON’T use AI to clone or manipulate any audio recordings.
We design and deploy custom AI agents in select client engagements, most often to support workflow efficiency, editorial consistency, and alignment with a show’s strategic goals. Each agent is developed in close relationship with the client’s objectives, operating context, and internal decision‑making processes. For that reason, the structure and behavior of these tools remain proprietary to our clients.
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