218: Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery And Losing The iPod

05/16/22 • 66 min

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Big news on Libsyn, Apple and the Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery, the Boomplay Destination, the iPod discontinued and why that's #heartbreak for podcasters, Facebook broke up with podcasting, new contest with Amazon Music to get you featured! IAB podcast revenue report, what Apple Podcasts rankings are based on, insight into gender parity in your podcasts guests, liability in podcasting! And finally Stats! Median and mean numbers! Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on Speakpipe! We'd love to hear from you!

Quick Episode Summary

:13 Intro
2:26 PROMO 1: Her Business, Her Voice, Her Conversation
2:57 Rob and Elsie conversation
3:31 We have a new destination! Boomplay!
5:11 The iPod is dead
13:41 Apple bringing Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery to Libsyn
20:41 Facebook broke up with podcasting
26:59 Where did the ID3 tags go?
30:36 Amazon Music contest info!
36:25 The IAB podcast advertising revenue report
39:26 Determining why a rank in Apple Podcasts dropped
41:25 Why are there RSS feed errors sometimes?
42:41 Men and women guest ratios on podcasts
46:50 PROMO 2: Cracking the Code Of Spy Movies
47:32 Insight into video podcasts vs audio podcasts
50:12 Liability in podcasting and why it matters for you to learn about it
58:07 PROMO 3: Legends From The Pacific Episode 11
58:43 Stats: mean and median numbers
Advertisecast's latest podcast advertising rates
1:02:01 Where have we been?
Where are we going?

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Quick Episode Summary

:13 Intro
2:26 PROMO 1: Her Business, Her Voice, Her Conversation
2:57 Rob and Elsie conversation
3:31 We have a new destination! Boomplay!
5:11 The iPod is dead
13:41 Apple bringing Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery to Libsyn
20:41 Facebook broke up with podcasting
26:59 Where did the ID3 tags go?
30:36 Amazon Music contest info!
36:25 The IAB podcast advertising revenue report
39:26 Determining why a rank in Apple Podcasts dropped
41:25 Why are there RSS feed errors sometimes?
42:41 Men and women guest ratios on podcasts
46:50 PROMO 2: Cracking the Code Of Spy Movies
47:32 Insight into video podcasts vs audio podcasts
50:12 Liability in podcasting and why it matters for you to learn about it
58:07 PROMO 3: Legends From The Pacific Episode 11
58:43 Stats: mean and median numbers
Advertisecast's latest podcast advertising rates
1:02:01 Where have we been?
Where are we going?

Featured Podcast Promo + Audio

Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro!

Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!

Previous Episode

217: Podcast Exports, Podcaster Thoughts and A YouTube Channel

On this episode testing the new Samson Q9U + new fancy XLR cables, Apple Podcasts stats exports and new collections, Elsie’s JRE theory was right! NAB 2022 re-cap, Higher Ground is done with Spotify, the Libsyn YouTube Channel, micro interview with the Titus podcast, and Stats - what do podcasters actually care about?

Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message on Speakpipe! We’d love to hear from you!

Quick Episode Summary

:13 Intro
2:47 PROMO 1: Into The Woods
3:17 Rob and Elsie conversation
4:04 Testing new gear: the Samson Q9U and fancy XLR cables
11:50 Twitter and Elon
14:08 Apple Podcasts podcast export reports and very nice collections
18:29 Audio feedback from Podcaster Jay
20:57 Elsie was right about that Joe Rogan strategy
25:58 NAB Las Vegas update from Rob
Calling Asian Pacific and Pacific Islander podcasters!
31:15 Are the Obama’s breaking up with Spotify?
35:34 Make sure you that your Libsyn account default setting is not set to 100
37:52 The Feed made the Goodpods charts!
40:05 Guess who has a YouTube channel?
41:34 The two ways people increase audience, according to Rob
44:15 PROMO 2: Women Amplified
46:20 The Libsyn office is truly remote
48:04 Getting your Apple Podcasts’s account live again
49:51 Acast closing down their podcast listening app
51:08 Interview segment: Titus
56:51 Covering some projections on podcast ad sales through 2026
1:01:12 PROMO 3: Experience Junkies
1:02:03 Stats! Discussing data on what podcasters are thinking
1:07:13 Where have we been?
Where are we going?

Featured Podcast Promo + Audio

Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro!

Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie

Next Episode

219: Podcast Audience Metrics and Improving Podcast Search

The Rodecaster Pro 2 leaked and released, iTunes got an update for PC users, are your audiograms working? Conan and his 150 million dollar deal, iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, and macOS 12.4 for Apple Podcasts, our Amazon Music contest, all about our affiliates, integrating spacial audio for your podcast, Spotify had a bit of a snafu with Wild Turkey, and geographic and user agent stats!

Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email [email protected], call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message on Speakpipe! We'd love to hear from you!

Quick Episode Summary

:13 Intro
2:22 PROMO 1: Waiting in the Wings
2:52 Rob and Elsie conversation
4:30 The Rodecaster Pro 2 leaked!
10:36 Apple pushed out an update to iTunes
11:50 Quick summary of why your audiograms aren't working
17:50 The Conan O’Brian Sirius XM $150 million dollar deal
18:49 Setting up your episodes to be binged on your website for members
21:28 New features for iOS, iPad OS 15.5 and macOS 12.4 for Apple Podcasts
26:13 Improving your podcast search across the top directories
28:32 The Podcasting under $100 series is on YouTube
31:03 The Amazon Music Contest!
32:41 PROMO 2: Please Don't Follow Me Home
33:32 Did you know about the Libsyn affiliate program?
36:17 Featuring Kamuela Kaneshiro
37:10 When you look for ads make sure you know what your audience actually is
40:56 Using spatial audio for your podcast, yay or nay
45:10 Wild Turkey just showed up everywhere
46:41 Why do we still use the word "podcast?"
48:08 What is the listenership criteria for IAB stats campaign and ad slot metrics?
49:42 PROMO 3: The Mindful Midlife Crisis
50:20 Stats: geographic and user agent
53:45 Where have we been and where are we going?