Subscribe by email, free
Your daily briefing for podcasting and on-demand
An iPhone

Apple explains how automatic downloads work

Listen · · 4.1 minutes to read

This article is at least a year old

  • TargetSpot achieved revenues of €12.3m (US $14.2m) in H1/21, a year-on-year increase of 56.3% (led by the US, which was up 72%). Its figures were released as part of its owning company, AudioValley; it posted a €0.4m ($0.46m) loss, after a 60% increase in staff costs.

  • Radio Today Australia has been acquired by its competitor, Radioinfo. Both websites will continue to operate independently, however Radio Today’s Content Director and Editor, Vivienne Kelly, will depart the business on Nov 19. Radio Today operates a radio-focused podcast awards and newsletter.


    Sep 8 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Get the free Podnews newsletter for more like this

    Get it free
  • Dan Ilic, the host of A Rational Fear paid for billboards to be shown in Times Square decrying Australia’s climate change policy. He managed to get onto CNN, among other media outlets, as a result. Jake Tapper knows us: “You’re a podcaster, so you could talk for four hours straight”.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS․com

  • podcast:popular is a new proposal for the podcast namespace: a tag that would show a podcast’s most popular episodes in a podcast player. A podcast hosting company could turn this tag on for all shows, and surface the most popular show for potential listeners to discover. Your thoughts would be welcome.

  • Spotify

    From May, but worth a look - Den Delimarsky posts how to download your podcast analytics data from Spotify. It makes us wonder whether this works using the standard API bearer header. Also - why are we having to jump through these hoops to get API access to data for our own podcast?

  • When sending boostagrams, you can send any amount of boosts - and some numbers have meaning. A boost for 1776 is known as a “Liberty Boost”, while a boost for 1999 is a “Prince Boost”. Gary Arndt has compiled an initial list - anyone who wishes to send us a school calculator boost would be a friend for life!

  • IAB

    Cloudflare post an interesting piece about multi-user IP address detection. The current IAB specification discusses a method of marking some IP addresses (a big corporation, for example) as safe to assume it has multiple users on the end: but this technology looks as if it might automate that work.

  • Apple
    Fountain
    Spotify

    Boostagram corner: Using value4value, we earn small amounts of cryptocurrency from every listener, and additional boostagrams - messages alongside larger tips. Dave Jones liked “Good Apple, Bad Apple” (thanks for the Rush Boost); Brian of London liked our mention of him last week (1029 sats from Castamatic); Dave Jones again: “I don’t think Spotify is “breaking podcasting”. They’re just breaking their product. Their podcast strategy looks increasingly fragmented and hard to understand. When their attempt to wall the garden fails, like that always does, the open RSS ecosystem will still be here ticking along - because information wants to be free and audio wants to be heard.” Thanks for the 21,138 sat from Castamatic. Adam Curry likes us when we say newpodcastapps․com (5000 sats from CurioCaster); “medus” says Podnews is the first show they listen to each weekday - thanks for the 2,000 sats from Fountain. In the last week we made 39,135 sats (US $24.05). We appreciate the boosts, and the normal sats per minute: send us a message here by holding down the boost button in your podcast app, and if you don’t have one, get one from here.

Podcast News - with AdLarge Media

Readers and supporters

Gold supporters

Silver supporters

Support Podnews, and our industry

Get a global view on podcasting and on-demand with our daily news briefing