Retail and Consumer Product Podcast Production

Retail podcast production for consumer product brands that live on repeat purchase.

Product storytelling, founder voice, and post-purchase content, built around your product calendar instead of a generic content schedule.

Your first sale can be bought. You can pay for the click, discount the cart, and win a customer who has no particular reason to come back. The second sale is different, and it is where the economics of your brand actually live.

Someone reorders because they know something. How the thing is made, who makes it, why it costs what it costs. That is what a recurring show gives a shopper, in a channel that keeps working between launches and between sales.

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Trusted by consumer-facing brands

The companies behind shows we have produced.

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Renting attention versus owning it

Your category already spends heavily on podcasts. Almost none of it goes into owning a show.

The IAB's US Podcast Advertising Revenue Study put retail at 11.3% of podcast ad revenue in 2023 and consumer packaged goods at 11.8%. Those are the two largest named advertiser categories in the study, and IAB notes retail's share is up five percentage points since 2021. Brands like yours are clearly buying podcast attention.

Almost all of that money rents thirty seconds inside somebody else's show. The audience belongs to the host, the relationship ends when the flight ends, and next quarter you pay again for the same thirty seconds.

An owned show is a different kind of asset

A show you own keeps working between launches, between promotions, and between the emails your customers have stopped opening. The back catalogue keeps earning after it is made, and the subscriber list does not reset when the budget does.

It also reaches the part of the funnel your paid media is worst at. Performance channels are built to win the first purchase. A show is built to earn the fourth one, and for most consumer brands that is where the margin actually is.

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Retail share of podcast ad revenue
11.3%

of 2023 US podcast ad revenue came from retail, up five percentage points since 2021. CPG was 11.8%.

IAB, US Podcast Advertising Revenue Study, FY2023, published May 2024
DTC marketer confidence
99%

of the 150 US marketing professionals Acast surveyed said podcasting is effective for reaching relevant consumers. A small sample, and near-unanimous.

Acast, surveys conducted December 2023, 450 professionals across US, UK and Canada
Named consumer client show
Food Biz Wiz

a weekly show Resonate produces and hosts for a former grocery buyer, now past 250 episodes.

Resonate Recordings; episode count per the published feed
Podcasts launched
3,000+

shows produced since 2014, with 50,000+ episodes across enterprise and consumer brands.

Resonate Recordings
Retail podcast formats

Which show gets your customers back?

Your format depends on where your brand earns trust: the founder, the product itself, or the community around it. We help you pick one and build it properly instead of hedging across all three, which is how most brand shows end up sounding like nobody in particular.

Founder-Led Shows

Put the person behind the product in front of customers on a regular cadence. Shoppers trust a named human before they trust a catalog page, and that is difficult to replicate with ad spend.

Product Education and Behind-the-Scenes

Explain how and why things are made, sourced, and designed. This format answers the questions already sitting in your reviews and support inbox, which is also where you should be getting your episode list.

Customer Community Shows

Make real customers and repeat buyers the subject of the show. It gives your loyalty programme something worth showing up for, and gives prospective buyers someone other than you to believe.

Seasonal and Launch Series

Short focused runs timed to product drops or seasonal moments. Useful if a weekly commitment is unrealistic, and a reasonable way to find out whether your brand has anything to say before committing a year to it.

Retail podcast production services

Build the package your brand needs. One production partner.

Take the full stack or only the pieces you are missing. Either way it stays with one team, built around your product calendar rather than a generic content schedule.

A named consumer client show

Food Biz Wiz, past 250 episodes and still weekly.

Resonate produces and hosts Food Biz Wiz for Alli Ball. She ran grocery at a San Francisco retailer before she started teaching packaged food brands how to sell into one. The show is built around the questions consumer product founders ask before a launch.

The number that matters there is not the download count. It is that the show has held a weekly cadence past 250 episodes. That is the part most brand podcasts never manage, and the part we are actually hired for.

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Client show, at a glance

Food Biz Wiz

Host: Alli Ball, previously Head of Grocery and Store Manager at Bi-Rite Divisadero, San Francisco

Cadence: weekly, past 250 episodes

Audience: packaged food and beverage founders selling into retail

Produced and hosted by: Resonate Recordings

Audience and rating figures for this show are self-reported by the host in her own listener guide, so they are not repeated here. Episode count and cadence are checkable on the published feed.

Relevant podcast examples

Consumer, CPG, and founder-led shows produced by Resonate.

A named consumer client show, plus two formats that translate to a retail or DTC brand.

Food Biz Wiz

A weekly show for packaged food and beverage founders working through retail shelf placement, co-packing, and wholesale growth. Hosted by Alli Ball, who ran grocery at Bi-Rite Divisadero, and produced by Resonate.

It is the closest thing on our roster to what a consumer product brand would build. A narrow audience, a host with real category standing, and a cadence that has held past 250 episodes.

Listen on Apple Podcasts →

Shared Practices, Your Dental Roadmap

A practitioner show for dental professionals working through practice ownership, growth, and transition. Resonate has produced it since launch and it has built a returning audience inside a narrow niche.

A brand with one specialised product line can run this same deep-dive format for a category-specific audience rather than trying to reach every shopper at once.

Listen on Apple Podcasts →

GO AI Podcast

A founder and team-led show for a marketing agency. The team wanted a consistent audio channel without building a studio or hiring a producer.

Different industry, same mechanic as a founder-led consumer brand show: one recognisable voice, a fixed cadence, and someone else handling everything after the recording stops.

Listen on Apple Podcasts →

One trade-off worth knowing before you start.

A podcast will not report cleanly in your ROAS dashboard. People listen on a phone and buy later on a laptop, so attribution is directional at best. If your team only funds channels that report a last-click number, this will be a difficult internal sell.

What you can measure is repeat purchase rate among listeners, using a promo code or a dedicated landing page. It takes a couple of quarters to say anything. If your next two quarters are about hitting a CAC target, spend the money on performance and come back to this when you are working on retention.

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Thirty minutes. We go through your catalog, your customers, and what a show timed to your next launch would actually involve.

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Retail podcast FAQs

Questions brands ask before they start.

Including the measurement question, which is the one that usually decides it.

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What is a retail brand podcast?+
A retail brand podcast is a show produced by or for a retail, DTC, or consumer product company to build an ongoing relationship with shoppers. Instead of a one-time ad, it gives your brand a recurring reason to show up in a customer's week. It carries product stories and founder perspective a checkout page cannot.
Will a podcast show up in our ROAS dashboard?+
Mostly no, and you should plan for that. Podcast attribution is weak compared with paid social, because people listen on a phone and buy later on a laptop. The number worth watching is repeat purchase rate among listeners. That usually means tagging a promo code or a landing page, and accepting that the measurement is directional.
How does podcasting help consumer product brands sell more?+
It works on the second purchase more than the first. A shopper who knows how your product is made, who makes it, and why it is priced that way has a reason to reorder. A discount code does not create that. That matters most for brands whose economics depend on lifetime value rather than a single conversion.
What does a retail podcast production agency do?+
It handles strategy, host selection, audio and video production, and distribution, and builds the release schedule around your product calendar and launches rather than a generic content cadence. Resonate Recordings produces Food Biz Wiz, a client show for packaged food and beverage founders selling into retail.
What kind of show should a consumer product brand launch?+
Most consumer product brands land on one of four formats. A founder-led show that puts the person behind the product in front of customers. A product education series on how and why things are made. A customer community show built on reviews and repeat buyers. Or a short seasonal run timed to launches.
Can a small or growing brand afford podcast production?+
Yes, and scope is the lever. A lean audio-only show costs a fraction of a full-service production with video, marketing assets, and hosting. Because a podcast is owned media rather than a rented ad slot, cost per touchpoint falls the longer the show runs. Paid media stops the moment spend stops.
How is a retail podcast different from a general branded podcast?+
It is built around the purchase and repurchase cycle rather than a long B2B sales cycle. Episodes tie to product drops, seasonal moments, and the questions already sitting in your reviews and support tickets. Success gets measured in returning customers and average order value as much as downloads.
How much does retail podcast production cost?+
Cost depends on episode frequency, audio versus audio and video, and how much marketing asset support you want. Basic audio editing is priced per episode, while a full-service show with video and clips is scoped per season. Book a strategy call for pricing specific to your catalog and cadence.
Which consumer brands has Resonate worked with?+
Resonate Recordings has produced podcasts for consumer-facing brands including Amazon, Mars, and EA Sports, alongside a wider enterprise roster. The same production standard applies, built across 3,000-plus podcast launches since 2014.

Anyone can buy your customer's first order.
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