Chartable
This company is no longer trading under this name
Website: chartable.com
Owned by: Spotify
Latest news
- Feb 11: The original founders of Chartable, Dave Zohrob and Harish Agarwal, are working on a new startup using voice AI - and, of course, podcasting about it. Smart Speakers comes out Feb 24.
- Jan 6: Chartable still tracked 2.29% of all new podcast episodes in December, in spite of being officially switched off on Dec 12, says Livewire.
- Dec 25, 2024: How many podcasts still have the Chartable prefix in them? As of last weekend, there were still 14,241 (not including shows hosted on Megaphone). Omny Studio has the most, at 1,665 (down by 15% since Dec 1), Libsyn has 1,192 (down by 57%) and Simplecast 973 (down by 37%). Chartable prefixes still work - but they won’t for much longer.
- Dec 12, 2024:
Chartable is switched off today. Among the many things the company offered was analytics - which it achieved with a “prefix”, looking like
chtbl.comorchrt.fmin your RSS feed’s “enclosure” section, which counted your total downloads. You must remove this Chartable prefix today if you have one, otherwise your podcast may not play at all in the future. SmartLinks and SmartFeeds will also no longer work. - Dec 10, 2024: Chartable has emailed users to remind them to remove the Chartable prefix before Dec 12 (Thursday). SmartLinks will stop working too. (If you’re with Spotify’s Megaphone, you’re unaffected). We’ve a list of alternatives.
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