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Chartable is switched off today.
Now among the many things the company offered
was analytics, which it achieved with a prefix
looking a bit like chtbl.com or chrt.fm
in your RSS feeds enclosure section,
which counted your total downloads.
Now you've got to remove that Chartable prefix today,
otherwise your podcast may not play at all in the future.
Smart links and smart feeds will no longer work.
As of Saturday evening, the Chartable prefix
was still in 21,500 shows, not including those in Megaphone.
We know many have since been removed automatically
by podcast companies, but if you're unsure,
contact your host's support team and ask.
Users of Spotify's Megaphone, though, need to do nothing.
Just make sure that the Megaphone integration in Chartable
is set up in order to access the Chartable platform
starting tomorrow, we link to more information on that.
And don't panic, prefixes won't stop working immediately,
we understand, but they will stop working at some point
in the future, so it's important to remove them today.
The closure of Chartable will have a big impact
on download numbers.
Changing an audio URL in your RSS feed,
as you'll do when removing Chartable prefixes,
causes every Spotify listeners app
to automatically redownload every episode
that may recently have been played,
or that's been downloaded for future playback.
Spotify is built to immediately replace audio
if it changes, even in a listener's cache,
since record companies require that functionality
for legal reasons, so if you see bazillions of downloads
for some reason today, that will be why.
Ausha has launched Ausha Charts, a chart tracking service
that also covers subcategories in all countries
for Apple and Spotify.
The tool is currently a chart and category browser
and doesn't let you search your show.
Podfollow has launched Podfollow Charts,
a chart tracking service.
Their service is free and allows podcasters
to search for their show to see its Apple
and Spotify chart positions and of their competitors.
It launches with five English-speaking countries.
In other news, Apple Podcasts has unveiled new features
in iOS 18.2, which is out today.
The app now gives categories within your library,
as well as more personalized recommendations.
The company says that podcast creators should make sure
their primary category is accurate
to ensure their show is correctly surfaced
across show and category recommendations.
Libsyn and Sounds Profitable unveiled
the 2024 True Crime Podcast Listener Landscape Report.
True crime is number one with women in the U.S.
with 37% of female podcast consumers listening
in the past month, the data says.
Daily Wire has just received IAB version 2.2 certification
for download and listener, which is a bit weird
'cause they're currently hosted with Simplecast,
which is only at version 2.1.
Video creators can now launch promotional campaigns
on Spotify for video content using Spotify's
self-serve advertising platform Spotify Ads Manager.
Spotify has upgraded its podcast streams objective tool
to cover video, it's lost the podcast name as a result.
Podcasters using it have seen increases
in listeners of 13%, the company says.
Audioboom issued a trading update.
It now expects an increased adjusted EBITDA profit
of at least $3.1 million.
Of not, it also says that the iOS 17 update last year
from Apple cost the company $15 million.
The sixth annual podcast editing industry survey
will be revealed in a live stream today at 3 p.m.
in Eastern time, Mark Deal and Steve Stewart
who run the Podcast Editor Academy will share
what podcast editors charge for editing audio,
what editing software is used the most
and what impacts their effective rate.
PodTube is an interesting new service
that lets you subscribe to your favorite YouTube channel
in a podcast app.
We wish them good luck with their presumed
forthcoming legal battle.
And the podcast middle class will continue to shrink
suggests Alex Sujong Laughlin slightly depressingly
in Neiman Lab.
The Rogans and Coopers of the world will float
in their opulent pools, she says,
while the rest of us fight for greedy sips of what's left.
We bet she's fun at parties.
In people news, Martijn Gerrits has been hired
as sales director for Acast in the Netherlands.
Gerrits is Acast's first hire in the region.
He joins from Spotify, Azerion, Media House
in the Netherlands and Dentsu.
And AMA has a new CEO, Paul Kelly.
He was AMA's CRO and joined in 2021.
He succeeds Steve Dunlop who founded the company
nine years ago.
After thoughtful consideration, Steve has decided
to step down as CEO, said the chairman Kip Meek.
Dunlop describes the nine years as being a blast
on his own LinkedIn, though isn't quoted in the release.
And in podcast news, goal hangers, the rest is history.
He gets a profile in the Wall Street Journal.
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are described
as irreverent historians.
The show is in the top 10 charts in many countries.
Persefonica's Miss Me is to have a live show in March.
It's the first for the Sheffield based podcast producer.
The show is hosted by Lily Allen and Makita Oliver
and is made for the BBC.
Sherlock Holmes' Short Stories launches today
from Noiser to Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated
Holmes mysteries, read in their original masterful form
by Hugh Bonneville, who you might know
from Downton Abbey and W1A.
Expect iconic stories like The Adventures
of the Speckled Band, The Red Headed League
and The Man with the Twisted Lip.
And new from Wondery today to open RSS
is Hollywood and Crime, looking at the greed, lies
and betrayals that led to the murder
of variety show producer Roy Radin.
The show has been available in Wondery Plus
for the last month, but it gets its debut
on other podcast apps today.
And this bumper edition of the podcast is sponsored by CBC.
From CBC Uncover brings listeners explosive
high-calibre investigations and true crime series
and CBC is currently accepting pitches from independents
and publishers to be part of this successful podcast.
You'll find a link on how to do that in the show notes.
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