Liam Turner Audiobooks

Liam Turner writes practical guides to the platforms most of us use every day and few of us have ever properly learned. His books sit in the space between the official help pages, which assume you already know the vocabulary, and the breathless online course, which assumes you want to become a marketer. Turner assumes neither.

The work divides into two lines. The first is a set of foundations titles, taking one platform at a time and walking a newcomer through it from the account settings outward: what the buttons actually do, what the algorithm appears to reward, what a beginner can safely ignore. The second and more recent line looks at what artificial intelligence has done to those same platforms, and at the tools now within reach of anyone making things for them.

The register throughout is patient and unhurried. Nothing is assumed, jargon is explained the first time it appears, and the tone stays closer to a competent friend at the kitchen table than to a guru on a stage.

The foundations titles are the sensible entry point. Facebook Basics runs to well under five hours and can be finished in an afternoon, while Social Media Basics is a far longer survey at twelve hours that works better as a reference to return to than as a single sitting. Jason Belvill reads both in the same steady, unfussy voice, and Instagram Basics is scheduled to join them in the same style.

YouTube AI Evolution marks the newer direction, read by Patrick Shannon: how the current generation of AI tools can be used to plan, script and grow a channel. At around three and a half hours it is the briskest thing of his we have.

Start with whichever platform is currently defeating you, and see what is available below.