Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
Website: podcastindex.org
Latest news
- Jul 20:
"Forget streaming payments. Streaming payments is just not going to work. It's over." Speaking in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week, Adam Curry and Dave Jones said they'd close the Podcast Index "lightning node" since it was costing more to run than it earned, and urged podcasters to focus on a clean, simple method of support using the
podcast:fundingtag. As of today, Podnews has a simple, clean payment page, via Stripe linked from our RSS feed's funding tag. - May 11: The Podcast Index has published a page detailing all the open public datasets available from the project. Great for researchers, developers, or anyone wanting to understand the podcast space, they're all free.
- May 4: The Podcast Index has launched a new API endpoint to allow podcast apps to upload the number of total followers of a feed, to enable better recommendations for all.
- Apr 27: 233 million people live in Nigeria - so podcasting could be massive in the country. As Tony Onwuchekwa writes for Podnews today for another of our market focus articles, 88% of Nigerian podcasts are in English; but almost a third have either podfaded or are on pause. The Nigerian Podcast Index has more data on shows produced in, or for, Nigeria; and highlights where the industry is strongest.
- Apr 20: The New Feeds Report from the Podcast Index is powered by this CSV file. In the last 24 hours, another 217 new feeds from Inception Point AI, mostly in Portuguese and Spanish.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter