Transistor
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Chicago, IL, USA
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Website: transistor.fm
Latest news
- Nov 28: Podcast hosting: Transistor is offering 20% off the company’s annual plans. New customers can start here, while existing customers can upgrade here.
- Nov 19: 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 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:
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