Apple explains how automatic downloads work

• Apple has posted a new page explaining how automatic downloads work on Apple Podcasts. The page explains what gets automatically downloaded, when a podcast stops being auto-downloaded, how Apple Watch works, and cautions that automatic downloads may lead to an incomplete view of listener behaviour (in third-party analytics, we guess), recommending Apple’s own analytics.

• She Podcasts took place over the weekend. We’re looking forward to reading blogs and posts about it; but here’s a snapshot of the top 10 podcasts, according to the Podcast Consumer Tracking Report from Edison Research, split by men and women. It made Arielle “glum”.

• AdLarge has published their 2021 Podcast Buying Guide, containing guidance and context for advertisers wanting to benefit from podcasts. It’s a free download.

• 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.

  
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• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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

Presented by AdLarge Media: Voices for Justice A true crime podcast hosted by Sarah Turney, the first season explored the story of Sarah’s sister, missing teen Alissa Turney, which led to the arrest of their father in 2020. Each week, Sarah covers more true crime stories, asking listeners to help find justice for these unfortunate victims.

Rule Benders is the first branded podcast from Samsung, featuring people who have defied convention and redefined what is possible. It’s made by Acast Creative in Australia.

New from TED today, Am I Normal? is hosted by Mona Chalabi, a data journalist, diving into the numbers to get some of the answers. It’s produced by TED and Transmitter Media.

Internet and telephone company in the UK TalkTalk has appointed Dap Dip to develop its podcasts over the next year. They’ve been producing Walking The Walk since February; Dap Dip will produce more podcast ideas to highlight the company.