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Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with US$391.04 billion in the 2024 fiscal year. Wikipedia
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- Jun 23: The MeidasTouch Podcast has five million subscribers, it says. (We’d love to know how they know; as our article on podcast stats will tell you, total subscribers isn’t a number visible to podcasters. You can see total followers in Apple Podcasts Connect and Spotify for Creators: but that’s just for those platforms. Maybe they are even bigger.)
- Jun 19: Apple Podcasts appears to not be ingesting transcripts for new shows. We’re sure they’ll fix it soon.
- Jun 18: Using downloads for measurement is a business liability, argues podcast growth company Bumper in a blog post. Downloads are decreasing for many podcasts - yet, downloads are largely disconnected from actual podcast consumption: and technical changes, like Apple varying their automatic podcast downloads algorithm (which they did in mid-2023), represents a risk for any podcast publisher. They, as you might expect, recommend the Bumper Dashboard; but irrespective of that, the argument makes sense.
- Jun 16:
less than ninety seconds from us publishing the show on open RSS to send us a notification. Apple Podcasts was consistently later: anything from ten to 18 minutes late.
- Jun 12:
If you host your podcast with Spotify for Creators, Spotify now supports publishing those transcripts using open RSS standards - using the Podcasting 2.0
podcast:transcripttag, which is compatible with Apple Podcasts, Pocketcasts, and other apps. Creators will have to opt-in to make them available. It’s the first time that Spotify has supported a new, open, RSS feature like this. So - we thought we’d publish a special show on Spotify for Creators as a test, and while the RSS feed includes the new podcast namespace, sadly transcripts haven’t yet been enabled for our show. But let’s wait and see.
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