Your team created forty hours of podcast content last year. How much of it can you search right now?
If you're like most teams, the answer is zero. You published it, promoted it, moved on. All those insights and quotable moments are sitting in audio files that might as well not exist. Finding them means listening to forty hours of audio.
Your best content is trapped
We noticed this while building Mod. Teams would ask us to help analyze their social media: posts, comments, engagement. Easy. Then: "Can you help us understand what's working in our podcasts?"
We'd look at their back catalog. Fifty episodes. A hundred. Some running weekly for years. Good shows with valuable conversations, all sitting in audio files nobody could actually search or reference.
You can't repurpose what you can't search. You can't analyze patterns when the only interface is a play button.
What changes when you can search everything
A producer had a 50-minute interview and had to find specific moments: a particular story, a key quote, a few standout answers. Without transcription, that means scrubbing through the entire recording, guessing at timestamps, repeating.
They transcribed it with Mod, searched for keywords, and jumped straight to the exact moments. Hours became minutes. They sent the editor precise timestamps instead of "somewhere around the middle."
Once everything is searchable, you start noticing patterns. Topics that keep coming up. Moments people actually reference. The gap between what you think performed well and what actually resonated.
Make everything searchable by default
Most teams treat transcription as something you do when you need it. That's backwards. Storage is cheap. Transcription is fast. The downside of having a transcript you don't use is basically zero. The downside of not having one when you need it is hours of manual work.
The content was always there. Making it searchable means you can actually use it.
We built transcription into Mod because we kept seeing teams struggle with this. Try Mod free if you're dealing with the same thing.