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Apps and listener experience As a publisher, how would you rate the following podcast apps? Do they do a good job of helping your listeners find, follow/subscribe, and listen to your show? Do they offer the features you want to offer your listeners? How easy is it to support these features? (1=awful, 5=brilliant)If you don’t have an opinion on an individual app, just leave it blank. You don’t have to answer every question.
As a listener, how would you rate the following podcast apps? Do they have all the features you want - speed adjustments, silence removal, sleep timers etc? Do they work across devices? Do they implement features well? (1=awful, 5=brilliant)If you don’t have an opinion on an individual app, just leave it blank.
Directories and content You can list your podcast in many different places. How would you rate these directories for ease of getting your podcast listed? Are you happy with the other content in these directories? Are their categories right for your shows?
Each of these are different directories for podcasts. Do they list all the shows you want to listen to? What type of content would you like to see more or less of? Do they have the right categories?
Discovery How do these apps and services help you discover new shows? They may have promotional sections in their app, or give tools to help your favourite shows promote themselves. How would you rate their efforts?
Accessibility How do these apps do with accessibility - from closed captions and transcripts, to ease of control using voice or functions to help those with poor eyesight?
Analytics and insights These services offer a dashboard containing analytics and insights as to how your podcast is doing. How useful do you find this data? Do they work well?
Monetisation These services offer ways to help your podcasts make money - subscriptions, micropayments, donations and other forms of support. How well do they work for your podcast? (If you don’t use these services, you can ignore this question.)Just a reminder - if you don’t have an opinion on an individual service, just leave it blank.
Privacy How well do you believe these services respect your privacy?
Innovation, and pushing podcasting forward Are these apps or services doing anything innovative? Do they offer ideas or features you can’t get anywhere else?
Standards Are these services good stewards of podcasting’s open ecosystem? Do they support open standards and are they contributing to these standards?
Creator Relations Do these services provide good resources for how to work with them? Are they easy to find and read? Are the team accessible? Does working with them deliver results for your show? Are these resources good for your podcast, or just good for their service?
Overall Finally, as a podcast publisher, what is your overall impression of these services?
Finally, as a podcast listener, what is your overall impression of these services?
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