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Longform Video Podcast

A recurring multi-hour conversation on static multicam, with minimal editing by design.

On camera, liveModerate
  • YouTube (long)
  • Twitch
  • YouTube Shorts

The long-form guide for this format is still being written. Everything below is complete and is what the quiz scores against.

Best for

  • Two or more people who are genuinely good together
  • Anyone who hates editing — this is the least edited format there is
  • Building a small, deeply loyal, highly monetisable audience

Not ideal for

  • Solo creators; the format is a conversation
  • Anyone expecting growth — podcasts are the slowest-growing format on this list
  • People who cannot record on the same day every week for years

Five ways to start

  1. 01The conversation you and a colleague already have every week
  2. 02A recurring segment that forces structure into a loose format
  3. 03Two practitioners from adjacent fields comparing notes
  4. 04Reading your audience's worst problems aloud and solving them live
  5. 05A standing disagreement, revisited monthly

How it changes per platform

YouTube (long)

Chapters are not optional at this length. Timestamps are how a two-hour video becomes findable.

Twitch

Streaming the recording gives you a live audience and the VOD for free — the cheapest way to double the format's value.

YouTube Shorts

Clip the disagreements, not the agreements. Consensus does not travel.

Channels doing this well

No examples are listed yet. Every channel on this site is checked against the live platform and signed off by a person before it appears, and none have been signed off for this format — so rather than list plausible guesses, this section stays empty.