Cover art

I typed in the name of the show, Insurance Versus History.

And the first thing I notice, the cover art, The letters are very, very small.

Even actually the balance of the cover art is a little bit off, but the cover art is almost like not readable at this size.

It's interesting, right underneath down here at the bottom, I was listening to Hidden Brain.

And so I have an example of Hidden Brain and they've got like very bold text that's still readable, even though it's

tiny, tiny, tiny.

My first thought is, hmm, this cover art could use some work.

And it's just from searching in Apple Podcasts.

You know one way you can test this is...

Welcome back to another podcast roast where in every episode we dissect one of our listener shows packaging and so their cover art, show title, description and episode titles to decipher some of the opportunities both for them to improve their discoverability and listener acquisition and also some of the things that you can perhaps apply to your show to do the same.

So in this episode, we are roasting History of the Germans by Dirk Hoffman Becking.

So shout out to Dirk for submitting his show for the roasting.

I'm excited to dig into this.

Yeah.

And the other thing that I noticed right off the bat here that we haven't even got to the cover art or anything like that yet, but we've got a serial show.

And then also I can see an Apple podcast here that this is actually a link.

Huh? What? You been where? With who? Okay.

We have updated cover art.

We

did it.

The very first one, I think you can barely see my face.

Yeah, we both covered our faces.

The only reason we updated that one, because we loved that cover art.

We did love

The colors are very much Adventure 267, but that isn't it.

So Cover Artist was on the Superboy 181 from January 1972.

It was indeed a cover by Kurt Swann.

Was it inked by Murphy Anderson? It doesn't say, although the interior was story by Leo Dorfman, pencils by Bob Brown, and inks by Murphy Anderson.

Oh, yeah.

I think this album, like, the cover art is, like, the first time, like, this is, like, the first time you see Donna, like, I don't know if I'm explaining it right, like, the first time, I don't know if I'm explaining it right, but, like, This is, like, the image that people most associate Donna with.

You know, like, the big hair.

You know, the makeup.

crazy.

Griff, are you enjoying our new cover art?

Oh, wow.

Yeah, I didn't even see it.