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- May 5: 90.5% of the podcast downloads for the Podnews Daily come from Malaysia or Indonesia. We’ve traced them back to Google News: 65 days since they started, our Editor has dug a little deeper into the downloads on his personal blog, with more proof that they’re kicked-off by Google services.
- Apr 28: As part of this, worth looking at the massive numbers of people apparently listening to the Podnews Daily podcast in Malaysia and Indonesia. This is a bug with Google News. We’ve still heard nothing more from their team on how they intend to fix it: it’s costing us hundreds of dollars a month. If anyone knows anyone senior at Google, we’d appreciate a contact.
- Apr 10: Google tells us that it’s fixed an issue that led to hundreds of thousands of automated downloads of our podcast. Our analytics shows that it hasn’t.
- Apr 8: Our feature story yesterday about tens of thousands of phantom downloads from Google News audio briefings has prompted another media company to get in touch with us saying they’ve seen “the exact same issue for several months now”.
- Apr 7: Google appears to be driving hundreds of thousands of podcast downloads every week, that we don’t think are being listened-to. The Google Audio News product on mobile phones and smart speakers is driving significant extra traffic - and, we can reveal today, we’re not the only company who has noticed.
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