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@james Listening to this week’s Podnews Weekly Review, I heard you say you weren’t aware of any podcast hosting company aside from Omny Studio that supports the Media RSS media:thumbnail tag.
One more for the list: Simplecast.
Docs at https://help.simplecast.com/hc/en-us/articles/21953482700061-YouTube-Distribution
‘You can buy traffic. You can’t buy audience.’
https://wearebumper.com/blog/shortcuts-shenanigans-and-real-audience-growth
Last week, Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman reported on MowPod, and how they’ve been selling Apple Podcasts followers to publishers for $5 apiece . I’ve been aware of these MowPod follower campaigns for a while. So have many of my industry peers. To be clear: I’ve never bought a MowPod followers campaign
An example of something I love about open podcasting and open source software:
OPAWG maintains a list of podcast prefixes at https://github.com/opawg/podcast-prefixes
Last week, I noticed a new (to me) prefix from United Podcasters. So I added it to the list of prefixes.
This week, Bumper launched Podcast X-Ray. And because we're using OPAWG's prefix list, the newly-added United Podcasters is detectable (e.g. https://podcastxray.com/podcast/1603004118)
Love it!
Big thanks to @james, @js, and all other contributors to OPAWG!
Updated my Buzzsprout data post with today's January 2024 stats
- Apple Podcasts share drop tapering off (ios17 impact metabolized?)
- Spotify share rises again, closing the gap with Apple
- Downloads / new episodes bouncing back (normal for January)
Updated my Buzzsprout data post with today's December 2023 stats
- Apple + Spotify getting closer together
- Non-Apple/Spotify apps over 20% (!)
- Downloads still falling, back to Jul 2022 levels
- New episodes down (normal for December)
- Share of episodes less than 10 minutes crept up to a new all time high
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes.
Updated my look at the effect of iOS 17 on Apple Podcasts download share numbers - now with an additional ten days of data!
- iOS 17+ seems to have plateaued at over 70% of AP listeners
- for AP-heavy shows, seeing AP share drops from high 60s to low 60s
This new release of SQLModel (featuring support for Pydantic 2) is thrilling! https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel/releases/tag/0.0.14
Huge thanks to @tiangolo!
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