Who is the Soapy the libsyn mascot? iHeartMedia, Spotify, Voxnest and Megaphone news, Stitcher issues, more fun new gear from Zoom, search in Audible, pro-privacy former presidential candidate fails at podcasting privacy and of course, the latest in geographic and user agent with a bonus of Q3 breakdowns of Apple Podcasts’ top categories!
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Quick Episode Summary
- :13 Intro
- 3:20 PROMO 1: Notnerd
- 3:51 Rob and Elsie Conversation
- Congrats to President Elects and Happy 16th Birthday to Libsyn
- Audio feedback from Kamuela asking about Soapy!
- iHeartMedia buys Voxnest
- Spotify buys Megaphone
- What do you when you’re podcast consultant quotes download number results that are awfully high?
- Oh no! Stitcher had some issues with their URLs
- Terry’s audio feedback on Gaana and Amazon Music
- Apple seems to have dropped support for a couple of iTunes feed tags
- Fun new toys from Zoom – again
- PROMO 2: Memories With A Beat
- Feedback on the experience of sharing podcasts from Audible
- Elsie has some thoughts about how search in Audible works at the moment
- An update on exporting stats from the Libsyn stat page
- Do NOT make your trailer episode a 2 1/2 minute song because Spotify will kick you out
- Audio feedback – Terry asks about Alexa
- Some support for episode artwork!
- Worst email of the week all about Spotify not owning podcasting
- Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang gets called out for not taking responsibility to protect his podcast audience’s privacy
- PROMO 3: The Freelance Roadtrip
- Stats! Geographic and user agent
- Q3 2020 Breakdowns by Apple Podcasts Top Categories
- Where have we been?
- Where are we going?
Featured Podcast Promos + Audio
- PROMO 1: Notnerd
- PROMO 2: Memories With A Beat
- PROMO 3: The Freelance Roadtrip
- Kamuela from Legends of The Pacific
- Terry from VideoFuzzy
- Terry from The Discovering America Podcast
Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro!
Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie
- Our SpeakPipe Feedback page! Leave us feedback 🙂
- Now You Can Embed an Apple Podcasts Player For Your Website!
- iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT) Q3 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
- Zoom F2 and F2-BT: field recorders that can fit in your pocket
- The Zoom F2 Field Recorder : Introduction
- Andrew Yang takes lead in California data privacy measure
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