The Podcasting 2.0 “board assembly” this week mentioned a big change to the mechanism behind streaming funds in podcasts – the proposal is to optionally be capable to hyperlink a podcast app to an current service like Strike, a Bitcoin banking app, or to a Nostr pockets, for fee; and to make use of a brand new protocol, “lnaddress”, to obtain cash. The required changes to receive money would require updates to current streaming fee apps, and to each podcast RSS feed that accepts streaming funds. At the moment, fee particulars are hard-coded within the RSS feed and use “keysend”, a protocol solely utilized by podcasting: the modifications transfer fee particulars out of the feed right into a file containing a number of fee vacation spot addresses, and presents extra interoperability with different fee platforms. Different advantages embrace simpler onboarding for listeners – and leaving the system open to financial institution transfers and even bank card funds in future.
The streaming fee piece is necessary to get proper, painful although change may be. Suzanne Santo (Spotify | YouTubeMusic), had a music performed on Boostagram Ball episode 26, and inside 5 minutes of the present ending, stated: “To date I’ve collected $7.77, which is greater than I’ve obtained from Spotify after 28,000 performs.” Boostagram Ball presently will get below 1,000 plays per week.
Becoming a member of Bluesky, like everybody else? Do your model a favour and use your domain name as a nickname – simpler to learn out in your podcast and comes with full verification. Bluesky has a guide. We’re @podnews.net over there, by the way in which. Additionally discover our part sponsors @rss.com over there too.
One for anybody doing RSS feed parsing: fastfeedparser is “10x-100x sooner than conventional feedparser”.
Podnews podcast pages have restored hyperlinks in present descriptions (with rel=“ugc”). That lets us hyperlink out to web sites talked about in present descriptions, with out the hyperlinks counting for spammers.
Trending Merchandise
