Dallas Dirt Podcast Hits Another Milestone in Viewers and Downloads

CandysDirt.com’s podcast Dallas Dirt is seeing exponential growth as the number of YouTube viewers and audio downloads hit more milestones in March. The podcast is available on both YouTube as a video show and Apple Podcasts, Spotify, et al as an audio show.

Now, I promise I’m not whipping out the spreadsheets to show you every metric available, but as you’ll see below, the podcast is hitting its stride in its third month since launch. If numbers aren’t your jam, you can skip below the episode slideshow to see the guests and topics we’ve covered on Dallas Dirt.

‘That’s Just an Exact Calculation’

Dallas Dirt saw a 25.8 percent jump in total downloads between February and March and has now tallied 2,500 audio downloads to date. Another key metric for audio podcasts is the number of downloads per episode in a 30-day period. Dallas Dirt episodes had 1,068 downloads per 30 days, which reflected a 123 percent increase from last month.

Over on the video side, Dallas Dirt on YouTube saw a 39 percent jump in impressions for the month of March, which had 18,118 impressions for the 28-day period. As we reported last month, the podcast totaled approximately 25,000 impressions on YouTube for January and February 2024.

Newsmaking Guests

The podcast has featured newsmakers including Dallas City Council Member Chad West, Dallas Planning and Urban Design Director Andrea Gilles, Rudy Karimi, and MasterPlan Founder Dallas Cothrum.

Staying true to CandysDirt.com’s real estate roots, Dallas Dirt has featured guests such as Broker Jerry Mooty, Realtor Christine McKenny of Allie Beth Allman and Associates, Metrotex chair and Century 21 Realtor Darwin Stephens, and Ebby Halliday Companies’ Creative Director Remington Reece.

To help highlight her Highland Park listing, McKenny brought her celebrity client D’Andra Simmons of the Real Housewives of Dallas to discuss the home — and the reality TV dirt.

Dallas Dirt has also highlighted topics such as historic home renovation with Steeltoe Stiletto’s Tam Pham, mortgage rates with Dallas mortgage banker Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial, and appraising estate jewelry with Lyn Skibell of Skibell Fine Jewelry.

A Team of Expert Hosts

Though the masthead says “Dallas Dirt hosted by Candy Evans,” the show has featured several guest hosts who are experts in their episode topic or beat. April Towery, who covers Dallas City Hall for CandysDirt.com, has taken the helm for several pivotal interviews about the controversial comprehensive land use plan ForwardDallas, Council Member West’s 5-signature memo about minimum lot sizes and gentle density in neighborhoods, and the proposed $345 million bond proposition for Dallas Parks and Recreation.

The producer Shelby Skrhak sat down with Heather Guild and Elena Richey, Realtors and true crime fans, to discuss Darlie Routier’s murder home, the house where Candy Montgomery killed her friend Betty Gore, and the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey.

For an upcoming episode, CandysDirt.com senior columnist Karen Eubank helms the podcast to interview Dallas County Heritage Society Interim CEO Michael Meadows about Old City Park, a story she helped break for CandysDirt.com.

How to watch:

• Playable episodes and shownotes on CandysDirt.com
• Watch video episodes on YouTube
• Listen to the podcast on the go on:
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  • Spotify
  • iHeartRadio
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