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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
- 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).
- Dec 1, 2025: OP3 is being used by Audioboom’s hit True Crime with Kendall Rae. On Nov 18, the podcast was responsible for more than a third of all OP3-monitored downloads at some points of the day. (It’s great to see OP3 trusted by some of the bigger shows. It’s free to get your show in the system too).
- Nov 19, 2025: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare suffered a three-hour outage. Cloudflare delivers 15% of all podcast episodes, including those hosted by Buzzsprout, Transistor and Ausha; its failure also took out all shows monitored by analytics service OP3 for around 90 minutes, made much of Spotify and Apple Podcasts unusable, and even led to flight delays.
- Nov 10, 2025: In case you missed it - here’s how to get the most out of your OP3 download data. The free service lets you download detailed stats for further analysis.
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