Transistor
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Website: transistor.fm
Latest news
- Nov 12: Transistor has added another dozen free music tracks that any podcaster can use for their intro music.
- Nov 3:
There were 1.5mn new podcast episodes in October. In terms of podcast hosts by episode share, 29.5% of them were hosted with Spotify; Spreaker is at #2 with 18.5%; and Buzzsprout is at #3 with 10%. In the top ten, heritage brands Podbean (#4) and Libsyn (now #9) posted their lowest-ever numbers for the fifth month in a row. Transistor overtook Libsyn to a record high; RSS
.com (who overtook Libsyn last month) and Simplecast are also on record highs. - Oct 27: How much are you using the new Podcasting 2.0 features? Transistor has released a podcast score tool. Podnews Daily gets 8.8 out of 10, because we don’t have chapters. :whatever:
- Oct 10: Transistor has released a free podcast episode art generator, which uses your podcast feed to help make episodes. You can use it wherever you’re hosted. Justin uses it for his Build your Saas podcast.
- Oct 2: Livewire published its podcast hosts by episode share data for September, based on all 1.5 million episodes published that month. At #2, Spreaker jumped from 15.2% to a record 17.1% (they’re the company Inception Point AI uses for its wholly AI-generated shows); the #3 Buzzsprout saw a record share of 10%. Simplecast (#6), RSS
.com (#7), Transistor (#9) and Captivate (#10) are also sitting on record highs. However elsewhere in the top ten, heritage brands Podbean (#4) and Libsyn (#8) posted their lowest-ever numbers.
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