OP3
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The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) is a free and open-source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy.
Website: op3.dev
Latest news
- Feb 13: Podstats, a podcast analytics platform is to close at the end of this month "due to lack of use". The tool gave AI-generated analysis emails - here's a recent one - and used OP3 for data collection.
- Feb 2: Podlytic appears to be a new analytics platform "that unifies your historical data with real-time tracking — no matter where you host". It connects to OP3 for real-time insights, and also imports older data from selected podcast hosts, and should allow you to switch podcast hosting companies without losing your data.
- Jan 29: Spotify breaking open RSS in this way also extends to some podcast rankers like the Triton Digital ranker, which is based on logfile analysis. This led to Australian publisher Shameless Media coming out of the Australian ranker, as we reported last week. Analytics tools like OP3, which is based on server redirects, also cannot measure any plays on Spotify if that episode opted into video. It also means that you can't serve dynamic ads on these shows as well, which means you may significantly lower your revenue. A Sounds Profitable piece from April 2025 highlights the issues - and bluntly tells the podcast industry not to take part.
- Jan 23: Earsay is another podcast app that claims to skip ads automatically: but this does it on your iPhone, using Apple's AI model. "When an ad is detected, you can skip it, listen through it, or let earsay handle it automatically." The company highlights that when earsay detects an ad, it extracts sponsor information — brand names, promo codes, special offers, website links — and shows them as visual cards instead; it also does full transcripts of every show. The developer claims that podcast creators won't be harmed - it doesn't cache or interfere with podcast downloads, though it does remove links for OP3 and other trackers.
- Dec 29, 2025: If you are using OP3 as an additional measure of your podcast downloads, here's how to get the most out of your stats. (Our sponsor RSS .com's stats are IAB certified, though, and some of the most detailed you'll get).
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