Podcasts are a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with people who have the same tastes. This is also a good way to get a conversation started.

Opinionated friends or individuals use podcasts to comment on topics that they want to voice their opinion on. It can be good or bad decisions made by an individual or sharing their previous experiences. No topic is off-limits. In a podcast, anything goes. So, how can a chat work for podcasts? 

Let’s talk about how it works from different perspectives.

Why group chats for podcasts?

Podcasts start a conversation. For your audience to share their input, get a chat next to your podcast stream. You can connect with your audience and this lets them stay curious about your next episodes. 

By creating a genuine connection, you will gradually start having deeper conversations. When you engage your audience this way, you can get great content ideas and clips for your future podcasts.

For creating a community

When you embed a group chat next to your podcast, it will start conversations between listeners. This conversation picks up and lets you build a community.

Your community will work towards the betterment of your podcast. It may be your topics, conversations, or overall community. Sometimes it’s the community that strengthens your audience reach.

Because of the hearsay about your community, this can lead to other people joining in. Then, your podcast will grow along with your community.

For widening your audience reach

See how your community is growing? You can use this time to create a connection with your visitors. Start interesting topics and talk to them as if they’re long-time listeners.

You can also start a poll to see what they would like to see in the future. Ask about next episode ideas, skits, or topics that can be talked about. Look at how your audiences interact and, based on that, see their comments on certain topics. Don’t be out of touch.

How to embed a chat next to your podcast stream

There are two ways in which you can embed a group chat next to your podcast. 

The first one is through a floating chat wherein it will not disrupt your website page since it will be placed on top of your page design. You can place it on the bottom left or right corner of your page.

The second option is embedding it on your site as part of your page’s design. When you choose to embed it on your site, this will show on your page as an embedded element.

Follow these instructions to embed a chat.

1. First, create a RumbleTalk account or sign in to your account if you already have one.
2. Go to Embed.
3. Select if you want your chat as an embedded one or a floating one. Decide on the size, where it will be placed, and other embedding details.
4. Lastly, copy and paste the given code on your site.

Then, you’re done! It will now appear next to your podcast. If you’re using a website host that has plugins, you may check out the plugins page.

Using a group chat next to your podcast

A group chat can help your podcast in lots of ways. When your podcast is at its running time, then that’s where you talk to your listeners about the topic being discussed.

You can also leave the chat open for your community if they want to talk about the podcast episode. Then, you can export the chat transcript to save all the conversations that happened when you were gone. Use this data for your future episodes.

Sign up now to create thought-provoking ideas through your podcast.

We are happy to announce that the long-requested feature chat polls is now available on our chat platform.

The Polls feature is all about getting the votes of your audience. So, how does it work?

What is the chat polls feature?

Now that RumbleTalk has already released the Polls feature, everyone in your group chat will have a chance to be heard, to vote, or to decide on something that is needed. Your audience interaction will be at an all-time high.

There are two ways to enable the chat Polls feature. Let’s take a look at them.

How to create chat polls using the admin panel?

The first way to create a new poll is through your admin panel. The second one is doing it from the chat by logging in as admin. We will first discuss enabling the feature using your admin panel.

• Go to your RumbleTalk admin panel and click Settings.
• Second, click the Polls in the options.

• After that, the options will show up and you just need to fill in the question and answer boxes. Then, click Save.

If you want to see your audiences’ answers, you just need to click the View Answers button.

How to create chat polls from using the chat client?

Now that we have the steps on how to create a new chat Polls to feature using the admin panel, we are now going to discuss how to enable it on the group chat.

• First, log in as an admin on your group chat.
• After logging in as an admin, click the gear icon on the lower left part of the chat and select Polls. 
• Then, click Create New Poll.

After clicking that option, a box will prompt and you’re going to put a question and four predefined answers. Then, just click send and it will be sent to your group chat where your members can participate in the poll you created.

Remember that we created the poll using the admin panel, but what does it look like on the user end?

After sending the poll you created, a box will appear to everyone with the question and four predefined answers that they are going to choose. All they need to do is choose their preferred answer and it will be recorded and analyzed at the end of the discussion.

With the polls, you can increase audience interaction by letting your audience vote through the chat polls. It gives your audience a voice.

Publish the chat polls results

At any given moment, you can publish the results by using the chat polls. You can also resend the results at any time with no limitations.

Using the feature in your chat

The Polls feature allows you to get your audience’s insights on any topic. It may be from your event, a community discussion, or just about anything that you want to ask your audience.

After you have gathered the data needed, you can then analyze it. Then, you can use this as an idea for your next live event, product launch, or community discussion. So, it’s all up to you where you’ll use the data you’ve gathered.

Sign up now and try the Polls feature!

Here’s a new feature to add a layer of privacy to your group chat. You can now delete files shared in a chat conversation, group, or private.

Privacy means a lot to most of us. Privacy comes in many forms, either territory, physical body, data, identity, or location. Nowadays, privacy is not a right anymore, it is a privilege. We hear stories from the news on how easy it is to invade our privacy.

So, here at RumbleTalk, we have some ways to help you protect your privacy. Specifically, the things you share in the group chat.

RumbleTalk’s newest feature gives you the ability to delete all uploaded images, recordings, and files, not just in the group chat but also in private conversations.

Why the need to delete files?

Most of the chat owners want to delete the messages in a group chat after a live event has been finished. To keep things confidential, they wanted to delete the messages.

Then, they also wanted to delete the shared files on that chat. So, we had an idea to add this as a feature for our existing customers.

How do we do that?

• In your RumbleTalk admin panel, click the settings and choose History.

• After that, you will see the History page. In there, you have an option to save the chat transcript or delete all the messages that were delivered to your group chat.

• There is a check box (Also delete files). Check that box to delete all files.
• Then, click Yes, clear the chat history to delete the entire chat history.

Now, all files that you have sent to the group chat and private chat will be deleted.

As you can see in this example, the users sent multiple files and images in the group chat and private chat. However, after checking the Clear Files check box, they were instantly deleted.

This is how easy it is to delete all files in your group chat.

You can also refer to the knowledge base article and use it as a guide.

Deleting files and more

RumbleTalk is always adding new features to keep our customers happy. This is just one example of how we have added a feature based on our customers’ suggestions.

We have more features coming in the near future. So, if you want to be updated with the latest news, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Let us know your comments and suggestions by contacting us on our website. We always put our customers first.

Sign up to RumbleTalk today and start chatting!