what you have to do today

• Chartable is switched off immediately. Among the many many things the corporate provided was analytics – which it achieved with a “prefix”, trying like chtbl.com or chrt.fm in your RSS feed’s “enclosure” part, which counted your whole downloads. You must remove this Chartable prefix today if in case you have one, in any other case your podcast might not play in any respect sooner or later. SmartLinks and SmartFeeds may also not work.

  • As of Saturday night, the Chartable prefix was nonetheless in 21,585 exhibits (not together with these in Megaphone). We all know many have now been eliminated robotically by podcast firms. If you happen to’re not sure, contact your host’s assist group and ask.
  • Users of Spotify’s Megaphone need do nothing. Make certain the Megaphone integration in Chartable is ready up as a way to entry the Chartable platform beginning tomorrow. Right here’s more information.
  • Don’t panic. Prefixes received’t cease working instantly, we perceive. However they are going to cease working in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. It’s necessary to take away them immediately.

• The closure of Chartable can have a huge impact on obtain numbers. Altering an audio URL in your RSS feed, as you’ll do when eradicating Chartable prefixes, causes each Spotify listener’s app to robotically redownload each episode that will have been just lately performed, or that has been downloaded for future playback. Spotify is constructed to instantly exchange audio if it adjustments (even in a listener’s cache), since report firms required that performance for authorized causes. So, for those who see bazillions of downloads for some motive, this shall be why.

• Ausha has launched Ausha Charts, a chart monitoring service that additionally covers sub-categories and all international locations for Apple and Spotify. The software is at the moment a chart (and class) browser, and doesn’t allow you to search your present. (That’s coming).

• Podfollow has launched Podfollow Charts, a chart monitoring service. The service is free, and permits podcasters to seek for their present to see its Apple and Spotify chart positions, and of their opponents. It launches with 5 English-speaking international locations.

• Apple Podcasts has unveiled new features in iOS 18.2 which is out today. The app now provides classes inside your library, in addition to extra personalised suggestions. The corporate says that “Podcast creators ought to ensure their main class is correct to make sure their present is appropriately surfaced throughout present and class suggestions.”

• Libsyn and Sounds Profitable unveiled the 2024 True Crime Podcast Listener Landscape report. True Crime is #1 with girls within the US, with 37% of feminine podcast customers listening prior to now month, the information says.

• Every day Wire has simply acquired IAB v2.2 certification for “obtain” and “listener”. They’re at the moment hosted with Simplecast, which is just at v2.1.

• Video creators can now launch promotional campaigns on Spotify for video content material, utilizing Spotify’s self-serve promoting platform, Spotify Advertisements Supervisor. Spotify has upgraded its podcast streams objective tool to cowl video (it’s misplaced the “podcast” identify). Podcasters utilizing it have seen will increase in listeners of 13%, the corporate says.

• Audioboom issued a trading update. It now expects an elevated adjusted EBITDA revenue of at the least US$3.1mn. (It additionally says the iOS 17 update final 12 months price the corporate $15mn).

• The sixth annual Podcast Editing Industry Survey will be revealed in a livestream today at 3pm ET. Mark Deal and Steve Stewart, who run the Podcast Editor Academy, will share what Podcast Editors cost for modifying audio, what modifying software program is used most, and what impacts their efficient fee.

• Podtube is an fascinating new service that permits you to subscribe to your favorite YouTube channel in a podcast app. We want them good luck with their presumed forthcoming authorized battle.

• The podcast middle class will continue to shrink, suggests Alex Sujong Laughlin, barely depressingly, in Nieman Lab. “The Rogans and Coopers of the world will float of their opulent swimming pools whereas the remainder of us battle for grasping sips of what’s left.”

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