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Moves and hires

  • Crooked Media has announced a number of new executives. Madeleine Haeringer has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager of News and Programming; Reid Cherlin has been appointed Executive Producer of Politics; Dariush Brizuela-Nothaft has been named Senior Vice President of Community and Partnerships; and Crystal Ponzio-Busto has been elevated to Executive Vice President of Marketing.

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  • Want to make your show notes look lovely in the Spotify app? Here are Spotify’s formatting notes - bold and italic are only supported if you host with Spotify for Podcasters, interestingly. Spotify only supports https links, by the way, not http links.
  • Looking for automated ways to link to podcasts (and episodes) on a variety of players? Nathan Gathright’s podcast-platform-links is quite helpful.
  • In your app, how can you spot if a download has been blocked by an ad-blocking service? Normally it’ll be blocked by ad-blockers like Pi-hole, NextDNS or Control D - but because of the way these services interface with podcasts, they kill the whole download. You could see if the DNS has resolved to 0.0.0.0, which is the standard for Pi-Hole and ControlD (and then give the user a message); and/or force a DNS lookup with a known DNS server, like Google’s 8.8.8.8.

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