Subscribe by email, free
Your daily briefing for podcasting and on-demand
Lots of (repeated) containers in Barcelona
Noel Broda

Less ad repetition leads to better effectiveness

Listen · · 2.2 minutes to read

This article is at least a year old

Missing some features? We’re back to full strength tomorrow.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

  • Podcast Index

    The Podcast Index has more than 4.1m podcasts in it - but aren’t many of them abandoned shows not listed in other directories? No - there’s an automated removal process from their database. “90 days after birth, the podcast has to have at least 2 episodes, one of which is longer than 3 minutes. This criteria only applies to the free hosting platforms.”

  • As iOS 16 gets ever closer, and with it, AVURLAssetHTTPUserAgentKey, John Spurlock has posted code showing podcast app developers how to set their user-agent correctly (goodbye AppleCoreMedia). There was an issue, FB10073333, where it didn’t work if the server didn’t support HTTP range requests; that bug seems to have been fixed in iOS 16 beta 5, which was released last week.

  • Designed to be a documentation website and demonstration tool for the new podcast namespace, podcastnamespace.org is new from your friends at Podnews. (We’d love your help!)

  • Satoshis.Stream is working on a web version, removing the requirement to use Telegram to maintain your podcast on the system.

  • Thank you for the many, many boostagrams this week.

Get the free Podnews newsletter for more like this

Get it free

This page contains automated links to Bookshop·org. We receive a commission for purchases made; and the purchase also supports local bookstores.

Podcast data for Aug 15

#1 in Apple Podcasts
The Sunshine Place (C13Originals | Team Downey)
My Therapist Ghosted Me (Global)

#1 in Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
My Therapist Ghosted Me (Global)

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