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On this episode of Ask the Podcast Coach, Jim Collison and Dave Jackson along with special guest Max Trescott cover a wide range of topics related to podcasting. They start by emphasizing the importance of keeping surveys simple and concise, sharing their own experiences with survey development and discussing the potential conflicts that can arise from customer feedback.  JOIN THE SCHOOL OF PODCASTING Join the School of Podcasting worry-free using the coupon code " coach " and save 20%. Your podcast will have you sounding confident, sound great (buying the best equipment for your budget), and have you syndicated all over the globe. There is a 30-day worry-free money-back guarantee Go to https://www.schoolofpodcasting.com/coach Sponsor: PodcastBranding.co If you need podcast artwork, lead agents or a full website, podcastbranding.co has you covered. Mark is a podcaster in addition to being an award-winning artist. He designed the cover art for the School of Podcasting, Podcast Rodeo Show, and Ask the Podcast Coach. Find Mark at  podcastbranding.co Mugshot: Based on a True Story Podcast Ever wonder how many of those "Based on a true story" movies are real? Find out at www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com Mentioned In This Episode www.trypodpage.com Home Gadget Geeks Podcast The School of Podcasting Become an Awesome Supporter Dave's a Podcast Roadmap test http://schoolofpodcasting.com/ideas Brandy Media Kit https://supportthisshow.com/brandy Ecam Live https://supportthisshow.com/ecamm www.Castfeedvalidator.com  www.podnews.net SocialSubscribe and Follow Plugin https://links.podcastingresources.com/subscribeandfollow   Max Trescott Aviation News Talk www.aviationnewstalk.com Podsqueeze AI Tool https://supportthisshow.com/podsqueeze Profit From Your Podcast www.profitfromyourpodcast.com  Darknet Diaries https://darknetdiaries.com/  Every week Dave Jackson from the School of Podcasting and Jim Collison from the Average Guy Network answer your podcast questions. This episode 446 is part of the Power of Podcasting Network

Happy April Fools Day! We promise, we do enjoy helping our customers. One thing we don't joke about at Blubrry Podcasting is copyrighted music or material. It'll get podcasters into hot water fast (seriously, don't be a fool) and we highly recommend getting your intros, outros and any music played in your episodes, from a reputable source where you are most likely going to pay for it. It doesn't have to be expensive, it just has to be legal. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Entercom, Owners of CBS Radio, Cadence13, Pineapple Street Studios and Podcorn changed its name to Audacy. Podcast Index now has over 2 million podcasts! The Ramsey Show has reached one billion downloads. Apple Podcasts Connect has a 'known issue’ with validating new RSS feeds. They are aware of it and are working on it. Serial Productions new 5 episode podcast launching soon.  The Improvement Association is about election fraud in small town South Carolina. James Cridland pulled off a great April Fools episode/issue of PodNews.net today. We highly recommend it. Podcaster Radio expands in the UK to Birmingham, England. Best Practice: Podcast Intros, Outros and Music  Do you need a music opener? Safe places to get that music. For instance... our partner Source Audio. Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.5.5 should be out soon fixing a LONG-STANDING bug  in Migrate Media.  Along with some other minor UI tweaks.  Collaborations Benefit Podcasters, from our blog. PowerPress 8.6 in internal beta.  New stats widget and some UI Tweaks.  If you would like to beta test PowerPress 8.6, email mike@blubrry.com Tip of the Week: Do you sometimes wonder where a podcast is hosted or what RSS feed a podcast is using? Do you don’t know what yours is (you should know your own RSS feed). You can find an RSS feed of any show using CastFeedValidator.com. Just click on “Find Your Feed” in the upper right. Enter the title of the show as  listed in Apple Podcasts and the tool will find the RSS feed.  Just click on “View RSS” and it will take you to the RSS address of the show and you can see what the address is. If you have a question you would like us to answer on the show, drop an email to mike@blubrry.com  (Audio or text or even video if you want) and we may use it on the show. The best place for support with any Blubrry products/services is our ticket system (https://blubrry.com/support/)  Sending a ticket gives the whole team access to the question rather than direct emails or direct phone calls.  ______________ Be sure to subscribe to the companion show to this one, Podcast Help Desk where Mike goes a little deeper into the geeky and techy side of podcasting.  This week Mike talks with Andy Lehman (maker of the Podcast Namespace WordPress Plugin) about the Podcasting 2.0 and the “podcast” namespace.   https://www.podcasthelpdesk.com ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

Happy April Fools Day! We promise, we do enjoy helping our customers. One thing we don't joke about at Blubrry Podcasting is copyrighted music or material. It'll get podcasters into hot water fast (seriously, don't be a fool) and we highly recommend getting your intros, outros and any music played in your episodes, from a reputable source where you are most likely going to pay for it. It doesn't have to be expensive, it just has to be legal. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Entercom, Owners of CBS Radio, Cadence13, Pineapple Street Studios and Podcorn changed its name to Audacy. Podcast Index now has over 2 million podcasts! The Ramsey Show has reached one billion downloads. Apple Podcasts Connect has a 'known issue’ with validating new RSS feeds. They are aware of it and are working on it. Serial Productions new 5 episode podcast launching soon.  The Improvement Association is about election fraud in small town South Carolina. James Cridland pulled off a great April Fools episode/issue of PodNews.net today. We highly recommend it. Podcaster Radio expands in the UK to Birmingham, England. Best Practice: Podcast Intros, Outros and Music  Do you need a music opener? Safe places to get that music. For instance... our partner Source Audio. Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.5.5 should be out soon fixing a LONG-STANDING bug  in Migrate Media.  Along with some other minor UI tweaks.  Collaborations Benefit Podcasters, from our blog. PowerPress 8.6 in internal beta.  New stats widget and some UI Tweaks.  If you would like to beta test PowerPress 8.6, email mike@blubrry.com Tip of the Week: Do you sometimes wonder where a podcast is hosted or what RSS feed a podcast is using? Do you don’t know what yours is (you should know your own RSS feed). You can find an RSS feed of any show using CastFeedValidator.com. Just click on “Find Your Feed” in the upper right. Enter the title of the show as  listed in Apple Podcasts and the tool will find the RSS feed.  Just click on “View RSS” and it will take you to the RSS address of the show and you can see what the address is. If you have a question you would like us to answer on the show, drop an email to mike@blubrry.com  (Audio or text or even video if you want) and we may use it on the show. The best place for support with any Blubrry products/services is our ticket system (https://blubrry.com/support/)  Sending a ticket gives the whole team access to the question rather than direct emails or direct phone calls.  ______________ Be sure to subscribe to the companion show to this one, Podcast Help Desk where Mike goes a little deeper into the geeky and techy side of podcasting.  This week Mike talks with Andy Lehman (maker of the Podcast Namespace WordPress Plugin) about the Podcasting 2.0 and the “podcast” namespace.   https://www.podcasthelpdesk.com ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

We've been working with Audioburst for over a year now and are happy to offer you another new perk - their Premium Creators feature. Mike spoke with Amir, their CEO and they discuss what makes their new feature so enticing. Meanwhile, once Todd and Mike joined to chat about things in podcasting like the Wondery sale to Amazon, Twitter buying Breaker, Megaphone getting themselves into some hot water and more, Todd's cat decided to join the show. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Amazon is buying Wondery for a reported $300 million. Twitter is buying Breaker (and killing the app). Five podcast trends to watch in 2021 from the Irish Examiner. NPR Podcast Challenge: Open for middle and high school students, submit by March 15. Megaphone now on block lists for the tracking of podcast listeners. Rob Greenlee of Libsyn did not step down as chairman of the Podcast Academy. They elected new officers. He is still on the board of governors. Best Practice: Is there a best day of the week or time to release new episodes? Blubrry News: New things coming in 2021! Tips for Planning Your Podcast, from our Podcast insider blog. Audioburst Creator’s Premium feature available in the Blubrry Dashboard (30 day free trial), learn more here. Interview: Amir Hirsh, CEO/Co-founder Website Question(s) of the Week:   Question: I published my episode just now. Why can’t I see it in the xxxx directory or app?   Answer: All podcast directories and apps run off your RSS feed. When you update your feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscribers all check the RSS feed to see if something is new. This is not instant. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. Yes, it's available in your feed cause you pushed it, but the directories haven't pulled anything just yet. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing (typically in bulk with other shows). Your listeners subscribe to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again.  They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. As long as when you publish an episode, you get it if you are subscribed, everything is working.  It works the same as every other directory or app (other than Spotify currently). There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. That will show you what is in the feed and as long as the episode you are looking for is there, it will get to all the directories and apps in time. I just want you to understand, there is nothing wrong with your feed, anything Blubrry is doing or anything you are doing. It's all based on when your RSS gets pulled by these places. The important part is your feed is up to date and the rest of the world will update it when they want to. We can't force them (unfortunately). On Saturday’s Podcast Help Desk episode, Creating Your Own Podcasting Platform. If you have a question or feedback, click on the “Leave a voicemail” in the show notes at PodcastInsider.com. Record your question and we may answer it on the show. ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stampe...

We've been working with Audioburst for over a year now and are happy to offer you another new perk - their Premium Creators feature. Mike spoke with Amir, their CEO and they discuss what makes their new feature so enticing. Meanwhile, once Todd and Mike joined to chat about things in podcasting like the Wondery sale to Amazon, Twitter buying Breaker, Megaphone getting themselves into some hot water and more, Todd's cat decided to join the show. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Amazon is buying Wondery for a reported $300 million. Twitter is buying Breaker (and killing the app). Five podcast trends to watch in 2021 from the Irish Examiner. NPR Podcast Challenge: Open for middle and high school students, submit by March 15. Megaphone now on block lists for the tracking of podcast listeners. Rob Greenlee of Libsyn did not step down as chairman of the Podcast Academy. They elected new officers. He is still on the board of governors. Best Practice: Is there a best day of the week or time to release new episodes? Blubrry News: New things coming in 2021! Tips for Planning Your Podcast, from our Podcast insider blog. Audioburst Creator’s Premium feature available in the Blubrry Dashboard (30 day free trial), learn more here. Interview: Amir Hirsh, CEO/Co-founder Website Question(s) of the Week:   Question: I published my episode just now. Why can’t I see it in the xxxx directory or app?   Answer: All podcast directories and apps run off your RSS feed. When you update your feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscribers all check the RSS feed to see if something is new. This is not instant. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. Yes, it's available in your feed cause you pushed it, but the directories haven't pulled anything just yet. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing (typically in bulk with other shows). Your listeners subscribe to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again.  They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. As long as when you publish an episode, you get it if you are subscribed, everything is working.  It works the same as every other directory or app (other than Spotify currently). There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. That will show you what is in the feed and as long as the episode you are looking for is there, it will get to all the directories and apps in time. I just want you to understand, there is nothing wrong with your feed, anything Blubrry is doing or anything you are doing. It's all based on when your RSS gets pulled by these places. The important part is your feed is up to date and the rest of the world will update it when they want to. We can't force them (unfortunately). On Saturday’s Podcast Help Desk episode, Creating Your Own Podcasting Platform. If you have a question or feedback, click on the “Leave a voicemail” in the show notes at PodcastInsider.com. Record your question and we may answer it on the show. ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stampe...

We've been working with Audioburst for over a year now and are happy to offer you another new perk - their Premium Creators feature. Mike spoke with Amir, their CEO and they discuss what makes their new feature so enticing. Meanwhile, once Todd and Mike joined to chat about things in podcasting like the Wondery sale to Amazon, Twitter buying Breaker, Megaphone getting themselves into some hot water and more, Todd's cat decided to join the show. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Amazon is buying Wondery for a reported $300 million. Twitter is buying Breaker (and killing the app). Five podcast trends to watch in 2021 from the Irish Examiner. NPR Podcast Challenge: Open for middle and high school students, submit by March 15. Megaphone now on block lists for the tracking of podcast listeners. Rob Greenlee of Libsyn did not step down as chairman of the Podcast Academy. They elected new officers. He is still on the board of governors. Best Practice: Is there a best day of the week or time to release new episodes? Blubrry News: New things coming in 2021! Tips for Planning Your Podcast, from our Podcast insider blog. Audioburst Creator’s Premium feature available in the Blubrry Dashboard (30 day free trial), learn more here. Interview: Amir Hirsh, CEO/Co-founder Website Question(s) of the Week:   Question: I published my episode just now. Why can’t I see it in the xxxx directory or app?   Answer: All podcast directories and apps run off your RSS feed. When you update your feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscribers all check the RSS feed to see if something is new. This is not instant. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. Yes, it's available in your feed cause you pushed it, but the directories haven't pulled anything just yet. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing (typically in bulk with other shows). Your listeners subscribe to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again.  They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. As long as when you publish an episode, you get it if you are subscribed, everything is working.  It works the same as every other directory or app (other than Spotify currently). There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. That will show you what is in the feed and as long as the episode you are looking for is there, it will get to all the directories and apps in time. I just want you to understand, there is nothing wrong with your feed, anything Blubrry is doing or anything you are doing. It's all based on when your RSS gets pulled by these places. The important part is your feed is up to date and the rest of the world will update it when they want to. We can't force them (unfortunately). On Saturday’s Podcast Help Desk episode, Creating Your Own Podcasting Platform. If you have a question or feedback, click on the “Leave a voicemail” in the show notes at PodcastInsider.com. Record your question and we may answer it on the show. ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stampe...

Happy Birthday, Todd! Here at Blubrry we're big believers that podcasters should have a website for their podcast, and it turns out we're not the only one. Check out the article listed below that details reasons why a podcaster should always have a website for their show. Submitting your podcast to directories is critical so people can find your show everywhere, and owning those listings is important is any issues come up and the directory team needs to contact you. We've been talking about our PowerPress update for a while now and earlier this week it finally went live. PowerPress 8.3 is ready and available for all users, with significant user interface changes. And we've got a webinar coming up to review all of the changes made, sign up here. Facebook Live Recording. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. This week on Podcast Insider... News: Infinite Dial 2020 Canada, happened earlier today, at 1PM EST today. Why it’s critical to have a website for your podcast, from Brenden Mulligan. According to a recent survey, Joe Rogan could lose a chunk of his audience by going exclusive with Spotify. Podthon is happening July 18-19, 2020, as a virtual summit. 96,537 podcasts were added to Apple in May (a new record), according to My Podcast Reviews. Best Practices: Submitting to the Directories and Apps One published episode is required to submit to directories. Typically most podcast apps only download the last episode if you’re subscribed. Submitting multiple episodes at launch may have disadvantages such as only the last episode is downloaded when someone subscribes. Older episodes may or may not be listened to.  Episodes can not be made private and continue to be published in directories. One episode has to be public to be found. Launches work best when you’ve already submitted an episode zero or pilot episode. That way, you can ensure your new episodes will be found in directories on launch day. Submit to directories yourself; do not leave this up to a third-party organization (such as your hosting company). Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.3 is out, finally! Columbus CEO Magazine featured Todd Cochrane Meet Toby, he works on our Pro-Production team, article on our blog. Interview: We want you on our show! Set up an interview with Todd, Mike or MacKenzie to tell your podcast story on Podcast Insider. Support: Webinar coming soon! PowerPress 8.3 webinar, Tuesday, June 16th 4PM EST. Sign up! All the how-to videos for PowerPress 8.3 have been updated. Give them a look if you’d like to review changes made and how to find everything. Podcasting by Committee: AKA too many people involved in the tech side of your show. Designate one or two people on your team that will take care of all tech and interact with support.  Mike’s favorite tools for ensuring your podcast feed is healthy after publishing an episode: CastFeedValidator.com - Check your feed here after posting a new episode Firefox Browser with the RSSPreview plugin/add-on - Load your feed in Firefox to see if the post shows up and that it has a working mp3 link in it (click on the mp3 link). Chrome Browser - Load your feed in Chrome to make sure it comes up as XML code and not plain text / HTML (this only works if you are not using a service that formats your feed like Podcast Mirror or Blubrry.com based feeds). Play Your Show - Try the player on your website to make sure it plays. Subscribe to Your Show - Apple or either Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts and make sure YOU get the episode. (Stitcher, Tunein, Spotify and others like that will not work for this. Use Apple or Google). Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com

Happy Birthday, Todd! Here at Blubrry we're big believers that podcasters should have a website for their podcast, and it turns out we're not the only one. Check out the article listed below that details reasons why a podcaster should always have a website for their show. Submitting your podcast to directories is critical so people can find your show everywhere, and owning those listings is important is any issues come up and the directory team needs to contact you. We've been talking about our PowerPress update for a while now and earlier this week it finally went live. PowerPress 8.3 is ready and available for all users, with significant user interface changes. And we've got a webinar coming up to review all of the changes made, sign up here. Facebook Live Recording. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. This week on Podcast Insider... News: Infinite Dial 2020 Canada, happened earlier today, at 1PM EST today. Why it’s critical to have a website for your podcast, from Brenden Mulligan. According to a recent survey, Joe Rogan could lose a chunk of his audience by going exclusive with Spotify. Podthon is happening July 18-19, 2020, as a virtual summit. 96,537 podcasts were added to Apple in May (a new record), according to My Podcast Reviews. Best Practices: Submitting to the Directories and Apps One published episode is required to submit to directories. Typically most podcast apps only download the last episode if you’re subscribed. Submitting multiple episodes at launch may have disadvantages such as only the last episode is downloaded when someone subscribes. Older episodes may or may not be listened to.  Episodes can not be made private and continue to be published in directories. One episode has to be public to be found. Launches work best when you’ve already submitted an episode zero or pilot episode. That way, you can ensure your new episodes will be found in directories on launch day. Submit to directories yourself; do not leave this up to a third-party organization (such as your hosting company). Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.3 is out, finally! Columbus CEO Magazine featured Todd Cochrane Meet Toby, he works on our Pro-Production team, article on our blog. Interview: We want you on our show! Set up an interview with Todd, Mike or MacKenzie to tell your podcast story on Podcast Insider. Support: Webinar coming soon! PowerPress 8.3 webinar, Tuesday, June 16th 4PM EST. Sign up! All the how-to videos for PowerPress 8.3 have been updated. Give them a look if you’d like to review changes made and how to find everything. Podcasting by Committee: AKA too many people involved in the tech side of your show. Designate one or two people on your team that will take care of all tech and interact with support.  Mike’s favorite tools for ensuring your podcast feed is healthy after publishing an episode: CastFeedValidator.com - Check your feed here after posting a new episode Firefox Browser with the RSSPreview plugin/add-on - Load your feed in Firefox to see if the post shows up and that it has a working mp3 link in it (click on the mp3 link). Chrome Browser - Load your feed in Chrome to make sure it comes up as XML code and not plain text / HTML (this only works if you are not using a service that formats your feed like Podcast Mirror or Blubrry.com based feeds). Play Your Show - Try the player on your website to make sure it plays. Subscribe to Your Show - Apple or either Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts and make sure YOU get the episode. (Stitcher, Tunein, Spotify and others like that will not work for this. Use Apple or Google). Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com

Happy Birthday, Todd! Here at Blubrry we're big believers that podcasters should have a website for their podcast, and it turns out we're not the only one. Check out the article listed below that details reasons why a podcaster should always have a website for their show. Submitting your podcast to directories is critical so people can find your show everywhere, and owning those listings is important is any issues come up and the directory team needs to contact you. We've been talking about our PowerPress update for a while now and earlier this week it finally went live. PowerPress 8.3 is ready and available for all users, with significant user interface changes. And we've got a webinar coming up to review all of the changes made, sign up here. Facebook Live Recording. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. This week on Podcast Insider... News: Infinite Dial 2020 Canada, happened earlier today, at 1PM EST today. Why it’s critical to have a website for your podcast, from Brenden Mulligan. According to a recent survey, Joe Rogan could lose a chunk of his audience by going exclusive with Spotify. Podthon is happening July 18-19, 2020, as a virtual summit. 96,537 podcasts were added to Apple in May (a new record), according to My Podcast Reviews. Best Practices: Submitting to the Directories and Apps One published episode is required to submit to directories. Typically most podcast apps only download the last episode if you’re subscribed. Submitting multiple episodes at launch may have disadvantages such as only the last episode is downloaded when someone subscribes. Older episodes may or may not be listened to.  Episodes can not be made private and continue to be published in directories. One episode has to be public to be found. Launches work best when you’ve already submitted an episode zero or pilot episode. That way, you can ensure your new episodes will be found in directories on launch day. Submit to directories yourself; do not leave this up to a third-party organization (such as your hosting company). Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.3 is out, finally! Columbus CEO Magazine featured Todd Cochrane Meet Toby, he works on our Pro-Production team, article on our blog. Interview: We want you on our show! Set up an interview with Todd, Mike or MacKenzie to tell your podcast story on Podcast Insider. Support: Webinar coming soon! PowerPress 8.3 webinar, Tuesday, June 16th 4PM EST. Sign up! All the how-to videos for PowerPress 8.3 have been updated. Give them a look if you’d like to review changes made and how to find everything. Podcasting by Committee: AKA too many people involved in the tech side of your show. Designate one or two people on your team that will take care of all tech and interact with support.  Mike’s favorite tools for ensuring your podcast feed is healthy after publishing an episode: CastFeedValidator.com - Check your feed here after posting a new episode Firefox Browser with the RSSPreview plugin/add-on - Load your feed in Firefox to see if the post shows up and that it has a working mp3 link in it (click on the mp3 link). Chrome Browser - Load your feed in Chrome to make sure it comes up as XML code and not plain text / HTML (this only works if you are not using a service that formats your feed like Podcast Mirror or Blubrry.com based feeds). Play Your Show - Try the player on your website to make sure it plays. Subscribe to Your Show - Apple or either Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts and make sure YOU get the episode. (Stitcher, Tunein, Spotify and others like that will not work for this. Use Apple or Google). Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com

Publishing podcast episodes is best done with a routine, that's why we shared ours. Todd and Mike touch on some podcasting events, many virtual that are coming up soon. Blubrry also has some important things coming up, including a new service. And we're hoping you'll participate in our Ask Blubrry segment starting soon with Shawn Thorpe. We've once again recorded this episode live on Facebook and then published the finalized episode. Live recording of this episode. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. News: Podapalozza: A virtual event, that features pay what you can, benefiting COVID-19. Learn more here. NAB Show Express: Replacing the canceled in person event, this virtual event will occur mid May. This competes with the Outlier event we'll be speaking at as well. If possible - make it to both! Podcast Inc. has moved to November as opposed to this spring. Get your ticket here. Open job at Spotify: Head of Podcast Editorial. Mic recommendations and other things, from Podcast Movement. Apple is nearing 1 million podcasts in their directory!! According to Daniel J. Lewis, thanks! Best Practice: Workflow for publishing an episode.  Do you have a checklist?  Below, is the process we use.  Following the same checklist will ensure your show gets out every time. Example Workflow Checklist: Prepare talking points Produce mp3 (media) file Create a blog post. Title the post (episode) and write the blog post content or “show notes”.  Upload the mp3 file in the Podcast Episode Box in the post editor. Set any extra tags and categories for the post. (right sidebar and under the media file link after uploading). Publish the blog post. (clear cache)  Verify episode plays in the post. Make sure it plays and is the correct time duration. Validate the feed at https://CastFeedValidator.com   Make sure you get the episode in your podcast app of choice within an hour or so. (Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts is best for making sure). Subscribe to your own podcast. Directories and most apps take up to 24 hours to update with new episodes. Blubrry News: Blubrry monthly newsletter went out yesterday AWS Marketplace for Pro Hosting More new stuff coming! Some updates to PowerPress as we tweak the episode publisher New segment for this podcast starting soon.  Get your Questions in for Ask Blubrry with Shawn Thorpe (Replacing the PowerPress tip of the week). Email shawn@blubrry.com and put “Ask Blubrry” in the subject line Interview: Evangeline Hemrick -  Inside the Healing Room and Scared to SACRED  Support: Redirecting an RSS feed: The OLD feed to the NEW feed (do this before getting rid of the old feed) and leave it in place for 30 days.  CastFeedValidator.com is the only updated and maintained podcast specific feed validator out there and it's recommended by Apple. Others will give you false “errors”. “Can Blubrry get my show on xxxx?”  Yes, if that place takes RSS feeds, you can put your show on that app/directory.  Learn more here. Things you should learn about your podcast to help when there are issues. RSS feed address Logins and passwords to any/all accounts (website, web Hosting platform, FTP, podcast hosting and anything else you use for your podcast publishing) Apple ID email Apple Listing address Connect with Evangeline here... Website Facebook Instagram Email Apple listing Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from two very separate podcast studios in Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only) Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only) Email mike@b...

Publishing podcast episodes is best done with a routine, that's why we shared ours. Todd and Mike touch on some podcasting events, many virtual that are coming up soon. Blubrry also has some important things coming up, including a new service. And we're hoping you'll participate in our Ask Blubrry segment starting soon with Shawn Thorpe. We've once again recorded this episode live on Facebook and then published the finalized episode. Live recording of this episode. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. News: Podapalozza: A virtual event, that features pay what you can, benefiting COVID-19. Learn more here. NAB Show Express: Replacing the canceled in person event, this virtual event will occur mid May. This competes with the Outlier event we'll be speaking at as well. If possible - make it to both! Podcast Inc. has moved to November as opposed to this spring. Get your ticket here. Open job at Spotify: Head of Podcast Editorial. Mic recommendations and other things, from Podcast Movement. Apple is nearing 1 million podcasts in their directory!! According to Daniel J. Lewis, thanks! Best Practice: Workflow for publishing an episode.  Do you have a checklist?  Below, is the process we use.  Following the same checklist will ensure your show gets out every time. Example Workflow Checklist: Prepare talking points Produce mp3 (media) file Create a blog post. Title the post (episode) and write the blog post content or “show notes”.  Upload the mp3 file in the Podcast Episode Box in the post editor. Set any extra tags and categories for the post. (right sidebar and under the media file link after uploading). Publish the blog post. (clear cache)  Verify episode plays in the post. Make sure it plays and is the correct time duration. Validate the feed at https://CastFeedValidator.com   Make sure you get the episode in your podcast app of choice within an hour or so. (Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts is best for making sure). Subscribe to your own podcast. Directories and most apps take up to 24 hours to update with new episodes. Blubrry News: Blubrry monthly newsletter went out yesterday AWS Marketplace for Pro Hosting More new stuff coming! Some updates to PowerPress as we tweak the episode publisher New segment for this podcast starting soon.  Get your Questions in for Ask Blubrry with Shawn Thorpe (Replacing the PowerPress tip of the week). Email shawn@blubrry.com and put “Ask Blubrry” in the subject line Interview: Evangeline Hemrick -  Inside the Healing Room and Scared to SACRED  Support: Redirecting an RSS feed: The OLD feed to the NEW feed (do this before getting rid of the old feed) and leave it in place for 30 days.  CastFeedValidator.com is the only updated and maintained podcast specific feed validator out there and it's recommended by Apple. Others will give you false “errors”. “Can Blubrry get my show on xxxx?”  Yes, if that place takes RSS feeds, you can put your show on that app/directory.  Learn more here. Things you should learn about your podcast to help when there are issues. RSS feed address Logins and passwords to any/all accounts (website, web Hosting platform, FTP, podcast hosting and anything else you use for your podcast publishing) Apple ID email Apple Listing address Connect with Evangeline here... Website Facebook Instagram Email Apple listing Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from two very separate podcast studios in Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only) Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only) Email mike@b...

Publishing podcast episodes is best done with a routine, that's why we shared ours. Todd and Mike touch on some podcasting events, many virtual that are coming up soon. Blubrry also has some important things coming up, including a new service. And we're hoping you'll participate in our Ask Blubrry segment starting soon with Shawn Thorpe. We've once again recorded this episode live on Facebook and then published the finalized episode. Live recording of this episode. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. News: Podapalozza: A virtual event, that features pay what you can, benefiting COVID-19. Learn more here. NAB Show Express: Replacing the canceled in person event, this virtual event will occur mid May. This competes with the Outlier event we'll be speaking at as well. If possible - make it to both! Podcast Inc. has moved to November as opposed to this spring. Get your ticket here. Open job at Spotify: Head of Podcast Editorial. Mic recommendations and other things, from Podcast Movement. Apple is nearing 1 million podcasts in their directory!! According to Daniel J. Lewis, thanks! Best Practice: Workflow for publishing an episode.  Do you have a checklist?  Below, is the process we use.  Following the same checklist will ensure your show gets out every time. Example Workflow Checklist: Prepare talking points Produce mp3 (media) file Create a blog post. Title the post (episode) and write the blog post content or “show notes”.  Upload the mp3 file in the Podcast Episode Box in the post editor. Set any extra tags and categories for the post. (right sidebar and under the media file link after uploading). Publish the blog post. (clear cache)  Verify episode plays in the post. Make sure it plays and is the correct time duration. Validate the feed at https://CastFeedValidator.com   Make sure you get the episode in your podcast app of choice within an hour or so. (Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts is best for making sure). Subscribe to your own podcast. Directories and most apps take up to 24 hours to update with new episodes. Blubrry News: Blubrry monthly newsletter went out yesterday AWS Marketplace for Pro Hosting More new stuff coming! Some updates to PowerPress as we tweak the episode publisher New segment for this podcast starting soon.  Get your Questions in for Ask Blubrry with Shawn Thorpe (Replacing the PowerPress tip of the week). Email shawn@blubrry.com and put “Ask Blubrry” in the subject line Interview: Evangeline Hemrick -  Inside the Healing Room and Scared to SACRED  Support: Redirecting an RSS feed: The OLD feed to the NEW feed (do this before getting rid of the old feed) and leave it in place for 30 days.  CastFeedValidator.com is the only updated and maintained podcast specific feed validator out there and it's recommended by Apple. Others will give you false “errors”. “Can Blubrry get my show on xxxx?”  Yes, if that place takes RSS feeds, you can put your show on that app/directory.  Learn more here. Things you should learn about your podcast to help when there are issues. RSS feed address Logins and passwords to any/all accounts (website, web Hosting platform, FTP, podcast hosting and anything else you use for your podcast publishing) Apple ID email Apple Listing address Connect with Evangeline here... Website Facebook Instagram Email Apple listing Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from two very separate podcast studios in Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only) Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only) Email mike@b...

In an effort to keep socializing online, Todd and Mike recorded this episode live, and will continue to do so as long as we're still on lockdown. They discuss how COVID-19 is affecting content creators, RODEcaster has been up to a few things recently, and loads of companies are releasing info on podcast consumption habits during the coronavirus pandemic. They also give some tips of how to make the best of your new recording space, an update on Blubrry projects. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. Live recording of this episode. This week on Podcast Insider... News: Spotify has been taking down some podcasts concerning COVID-19. From what we can tell, it’s based on episode titles that mention COVID-19 treatment or prevention.  RØDEcaster Pro has a firmware update, 2.1 beta. You can download it here. Speaking of RØDE, they are donating equipment to schools during coronavirus. An uptick in podcast listeners is coming from radio listeners. Americans are listening to podcasts more often at home; no surprise given that everyone should be staying home currently. Similar to listening at home, more people are listening using web players - because we’re all stuck (safe) at home. Best Practice: Recording Try to keep your recording space as quiet as possible. Maybe hang a blanket on the wall behind you or record in a closet. (No really!)  :)  Record at a lower volume and boost it in post-processing. This can help with keeping out background noise. (Auphonic.com can help with post-processing). Dynamic mics work best for noisier environments. Pick a time that is less busy in your recording space. Don’t worry about little things in the background. (Dogs barking in the distance, fridge hum, kids playing in the background, etc. It happens when working from home). Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.2.8 has been released. Just some quick fixes and ensuring it works with the latest WordPress version. We’ve got lots of stuff in the works, look out for releases later this spring and summer.   April 15th we will start talking about a new product. We’re seeing more and more podcasters looking to start a second podcast. Please contact us before adding another RSS feed. There are many ways to add an additional show and even more ways to screw it up.  Interview: Kelly Ann Gorman - Happy Workaholic Support: Feed validation: how and WHY to validate your RSS feed Castfeedvalidator.com Podba.se DO NOT USE feedvalidator.org or w3 validator. They are out of date and are NOT podcast specific feed validators. Upload quotas with Blubrry hosting: they reset on the 1st of every month. Total storage is unlimited (as long as you have an active hosting plan). Podcast show notes, again. Lots of people are asking about how things display in the directories and apps. Dave, from our support team, is working on an article about which apps/directories display different portions of your podcast feed. Shawn’s Tip of the Week: website settings part 3 Contact Kelly Ann Gorman here... Work with her Instagram LinkedIn Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from two very separate podcast studios in Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only) Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only) Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

In an effort to keep socializing online, Todd and Mike recorded this episode live, and will continue to do so as long as we're still on lockdown. They discuss how COVID-19 is affecting content creators, RODEcaster has been up to a few things recently, and loads of companies are releasing info on podcast consumption habits during the coronavirus pandemic. They also give some tips of how to make the best of your new recording space, an update on Blubrry projects. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. Live recording of this episode. This week on Podcast Insider... News: Spotify has been taking down some podcasts concerning COVID-19. From what we can tell, it’s based on episode titles that mention COVID-19 treatment or prevention.  RØDEcaster Pro has a firmware update, 2.1 beta. You can download it here. Speaking of RØDE, they are donating equipment to schools during coronavirus. An uptick in podcast listeners is coming from radio listeners. Americans are listening to podcasts more often at home; no surprise given that everyone should be staying home currently. Similar to listening at home, more people are listening using web players - because we’re all stuck (safe) at home. Best Practice: Recording Try to keep your recording space as quiet as possible. Maybe hang a blanket on the wall behind you or record in a closet. (No really!)  :)  Record at a lower volume and boost it in post-processing. This can help with keeping out background noise. (Auphonic.com can help with post-processing). Dynamic mics work best for noisier environments. Pick a time that is less busy in your recording space. Don’t worry about little things in the background. (Dogs barking in the distance, fridge hum, kids playing in the background, etc. It happens when working from home). Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.2.8 has been released. Just some quick fixes and ensuring it works with the latest WordPress version. We’ve got lots of stuff in the works, look out for releases later this spring and summer.   April 15th we will start talking about a new product. We’re seeing more and more podcasters looking to start a second podcast. Please contact us before adding another RSS feed. There are many ways to add an additional show and even more ways to screw it up.  Interview: Kelly Ann Gorman - Happy Workaholic Support: Feed validation: how and WHY to validate your RSS feed Castfeedvalidator.com Podba.se DO NOT USE feedvalidator.org or w3 validator. They are out of date and are NOT podcast specific feed validators. Upload quotas with Blubrry hosting: they reset on the 1st of every month. Total storage is unlimited (as long as you have an active hosting plan). Podcast show notes, again. Lots of people are asking about how things display in the directories and apps. Dave, from our support team, is working on an article about which apps/directories display different portions of your podcast feed. Shawn’s Tip of the Week: website settings part 3 Contact Kelly Ann Gorman here... Work with her Instagram LinkedIn Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from two very separate podcast studios in Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only) Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only) Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

In an effort to keep socializing online, Todd and Mike recorded this episode live, and will continue to do so as long as we're still on lockdown. They discuss how COVID-19 is affecting content creators, RODEcaster has been up to a few things recently, and loads of companies are releasing info on podcast consumption habits during the coronavirus pandemic. They also give some tips of how to make the best of your new recording space, an update on Blubrry projects. Thanks for joining us this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distant podcast studios in Michigan, here’s a Podcast Insider show LIVE. Live recording of this episode. This week on Podcast Insider... News: Spotify has been taking down some podcasts concerning COVID-19. From what we can tell, it’s based on episode titles that mention COVID-19 treatment or prevention.  RØDEcaster Pro has a firmware update, 2.1 beta. You can download it here. Speaking of RØDE, they are donating equipment to schools during coronavirus. An uptick in podcast listeners is coming from radio listeners. Americans are listening to podcasts more often at home; no surprise given that everyone should be staying home currently. Similar to listening at home, more people are listening using web players - because we’re all stuck (safe) at home. Best Practice: Recording Try to keep your recording space as quiet as possible. Maybe hang a blanket on the wall behind you or record in a closet. (No really!)  :)  Record at a lower volume and boost it in post-processing. This can help with keeping out background noise. (Auphonic.com can help with post-processing). Dynamic mics work best for noisier environments. Pick a time that is less busy in your recording space. Don’t worry about little things in the background. (Dogs barking in the distance, fridge hum, kids playing in the background, etc. It happens when working from home). Blubrry News: PowerPress 8.2.8 has been released. Just some quick fixes and ensuring it works with the latest WordPress version. We’ve got lots of stuff in the works, look out for releases later this spring and summer.   April 15th we will start talking about a new product. We’re seeing more and more podcasters looking to start a second podcast. Please contact us before adding another RSS feed. There are many ways to add an additional show and even more ways to screw it up.  Interview: Kelly Ann Gorman - Happy Workaholic Support: Feed validation: how and WHY to validate your RSS feed Castfeedvalidator.com Podba.se DO NOT USE feedvalidator.org or w3 validator. They are out of date and are NOT podcast specific feed validators. Upload quotas with Blubrry hosting: they reset on the 1st of every month. Total storage is unlimited (as long as you have an active hosting plan). Podcast show notes, again. Lots of people are asking about how things display in the directories and apps. Dave, from our support team, is working on an article about which apps/directories display different portions of your podcast feed. Shawn’s Tip of the Week: website settings part 3 Contact Kelly Ann Gorman here... Work with her Instagram LinkedIn Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from two very separate podcast studios in Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only) Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only) Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

International Podcast Day is just almost 48 hours away and we can't wait to get started. We have multiple slots throughout the day, and we're hosting a giveaway. If you haven't submitted your new show idea yet, you have a day or so left. You can learn more about it here. Todd and Mike discuss a new show from CNBC, iOS 13 has been released by Apple, and they have a handful of tech support suggestions. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dave Rosen, host of Piecing it Together News: CNBC has launched a podcast, Squawk Pod, in conjunction with their daily show Squawk Box. iOS 13.1 has been released from Apple. They've included some bug fixes. Information from Podnews. UK newspaper, The Daily Star stole a story from a podcast and published it as their own. Descript Studio is now available. It's a very interesting audio app! Best Practices: Make sure your subscribe sidebar widget is above the fold. When someone comes to your site on any device, this way they don't have to scroll up or down to subscribe. Blubrry News: This Monday, September 30th is International Podcast Day. They're starting on Sunday due to time zones. Win one year of hosting with Blubrry. Submit to win here. Todd and others were in Columbus for some team meetings. New Podcast Insider site coming soon! PowerPress 8 scheduled to be released on the 9/30/19 Support: When publishing a podcast episode, make sure you check that the file plays right after you publish. Press play or download just to make sure. Here's a publishing checklist: Look at the post as a user would see it. (Good time to check for typos and such in the blog post as well) Publish the post Clear any site caching Hit play on the player. Does it play? Hit the download link. Does is either download? Check the RSS feed at CastFeedValidator.com Relax in the knowledge that my episode is out and inform your audience :) If only one app is having an issue, it’s most likely that app, and not your feed or your hosting company. Even if that app is Apple Podcasts. Coming at you this week from the New Media Studio in southern Michigan and Mike Dell’s World Studio in northern Michigan. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

International Podcast Day is just almost 48 hours away and we can't wait to get started. We have multiple slots throughout the day, and we're hosting a giveaway. If you haven't submitted your new show idea yet, you have a day or so left. You can learn more about it here. Todd and Mike discuss a new show from CNBC, iOS 13 has been released by Apple, and they have a handful of tech support suggestions. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dave Rosen, host of Piecing it Together News: CNBC has launched a podcast, Squawk Pod, in conjunction with their daily show Squawk Box. iOS 13.1 has been released from Apple. They've included some bug fixes. Information from Podnews. UK newspaper, The Daily Star stole a story from a podcast and published it as their own. Descript Studio is now available. It's a very interesting audio app! Best Practices: Make sure your subscribe sidebar widget is above the fold. When someone comes to your site on any device, this way they don't have to scroll up or down to subscribe. Blubrry News: This Monday, September 30th is International Podcast Day. They're starting on Sunday due to time zones. Win one year of hosting with Blubrry. Submit to win here. Todd and others were in Columbus for some team meetings. New Podcast Insider site coming soon! PowerPress 8 scheduled to be released on the 9/30/19 Support: When publishing a podcast episode, make sure you check that the file plays right after you publish. Press play or download just to make sure. Here's a publishing checklist: Look at the post as a user would see it. (Good time to check for typos and such in the blog post as well) Publish the post Clear any site caching Hit play on the player. Does it play? Hit the download link. Does is either download? Check the RSS feed at CastFeedValidator.com Relax in the knowledge that my episode is out and inform your audience :) If only one app is having an issue, it’s most likely that app, and not your feed or your hosting company. Even if that app is Apple Podcasts. Coming at you this week from the New Media Studio in southern Michigan and Mike Dell’s World Studio in northern Michigan. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

International Podcast Day is just almost 48 hours away and we can't wait to get started. We have multiple slots throughout the day, and we're hosting a giveaway. If you haven't submitted your new show idea yet, you have a day or so left. You can learn more about it here. Todd and Mike discuss a new show from CNBC, iOS 13 has been released by Apple, and they have a handful of tech support suggestions. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dave Rosen, host of Piecing it Together News: CNBC has launched a podcast, Squawk Pod, in conjunction with their daily show Squawk Box. iOS 13.1 has been released from Apple. They've included some bug fixes. Information from Podnews. UK newspaper, The Daily Star stole a story from a podcast and published it as their own. Descript Studio is now available. It's a very interesting audio app! Best Practices: Make sure your subscribe sidebar widget is above the fold. When someone comes to your site on any device, this way they don't have to scroll up or down to subscribe. Blubrry News: This Monday, September 30th is International Podcast Day. They're starting on Sunday due to time zones. Win one year of hosting with Blubrry. Submit to win here. Todd and others were in Columbus for some team meetings. New Podcast Insider site coming soon! PowerPress 8 scheduled to be released on the 9/30/19 Support: When publishing a podcast episode, make sure you check that the file plays right after you publish. Press play or download just to make sure. Here's a publishing checklist: Look at the post as a user would see it. (Good time to check for typos and such in the blog post as well) Publish the post Clear any site caching Hit play on the player. Does it play? Hit the download link. Does is either download? Check the RSS feed at CastFeedValidator.com Relax in the knowledge that my episode is out and inform your audience :) If only one app is having an issue, it’s most likely that app, and not your feed or your hosting company. Even if that app is Apple Podcasts. Coming at you this week from the New Media Studio in southern Michigan and Mike Dell’s World Studio in northern Michigan. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

Are you a fan of the RODEcaster Pro? You're in luck if so. They recently released a new update to their product, that makes transferring files much easier. That's not all we talk about though, MacKenzie guest hosts because Todd is out of town for DragonCon. There is lots going on with Blubrry, multiple releases this week and information learning coming up in September. The podcasting community will that Australia is hosting their annual OzPod Conference this October. Don't miss the interview with podcaster Dave Stachowiak. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dave Stachowiak: Coaching for Leaders Podcast Podcasting News: RODEcaster Pro Firmware 2.0 OzPod Podcasting Conference back on Oct 3rd Best Practices: File specs: 48khz or 44.1khz sample rate. 128kbps MP3 is standard file format for podcasts. You can use 64kbps mono or 96kbps stereo if you'd like. Blubrry News: Webinars: PowerPress for WordPress on Sept 18. We'll be hosting a webinar on how to get the most out of Audioburst sometime in September as well. Deezer: Now available for any Blubrry user, located in the Podcaster Dashboard - Destinations. New Partner: Journity! focuses on creating exceptional websites for nonprofit organizations - and all of services work with them. We've got an update to PowerPress with some bug fixes and better CastFeedValidator integration and Apple categories Blubrry Support: Realistic support response times: We promise we'll answer you! It might not be within an hour though. Our team is mighty, but small. And remember, patience will result in a fuller, better answer. Social media: We're not monitoring social media for support tickets, because we have a ticket system for our service.   Coming at you from the Convo By Design podcast studio at Blubrry’s Columbus, Ohio office. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

Are you a fan of the RODEcaster Pro? You're in luck if so. They recently released a new update to their product, that makes transferring files much easier. That's not all we talk about though, MacKenzie guest hosts because Todd is out of town for DragonCon. There is lots going on with Blubrry, multiple releases this week and information learning coming up in September. The podcasting community will that Australia is hosting their annual OzPod Conference this October. Don't miss the interview with podcaster Dave Stachowiak. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dave Stachowiak: Coaching for Leaders Podcast Podcasting News: RODEcaster Pro Firmware 2.0 OzPod Podcasting Conference back on Oct 3rd Best Practices: File specs: 48khz or 44.1khz sample rate. 128kbps MP3 is standard file format for podcasts. You can use 64kbps mono or 96kbps stereo if you'd like. Blubrry News: Webinars: PowerPress for WordPress on Sept 18. We'll be hosting a webinar on how to get the most out of Audioburst sometime in September as well. Deezer: Now available for any Blubrry user, located in the Podcaster Dashboard - Destinations. New Partner: Journity! focuses on creating exceptional websites for nonprofit organizations - and all of services work with them. We've got an update to PowerPress with some bug fixes and better CastFeedValidator integration and Apple categories Blubrry Support: Realistic support response times: We promise we'll answer you! It might not be within an hour though. Our team is mighty, but small. And remember, patience will result in a fuller, better answer. Social media: We're not monitoring social media for support tickets, because we have a ticket system for our service.   Coming at you from the Convo By Design podcast studio at Blubrry’s Columbus, Ohio office. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

Are you a fan of the RODEcaster Pro? You're in luck if so. They recently released a new update to their product, that makes transferring files much easier. That's not all we talk about though, MacKenzie guest hosts because Todd is out of town for DragonCon. There is lots going on with Blubrry, multiple releases this week and information learning coming up in September. The podcasting community will that Australia is hosting their annual OzPod Conference this October. Don't miss the interview with podcaster Dave Stachowiak. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Dave Stachowiak: Coaching for Leaders Podcast Podcasting News: RODEcaster Pro Firmware 2.0 OzPod Podcasting Conference back on Oct 3rd Best Practices: File specs: 48khz or 44.1khz sample rate. 128kbps MP3 is standard file format for podcasts. You can use 64kbps mono or 96kbps stereo if you'd like. Blubrry News: Webinars: PowerPress for WordPress on Sept 18. We'll be hosting a webinar on how to get the most out of Audioburst sometime in September as well. Deezer: Now available for any Blubrry user, located in the Podcaster Dashboard - Destinations. New Partner: Journity! focuses on creating exceptional websites for nonprofit organizations - and all of services work with them. We've got an update to PowerPress with some bug fixes and better CastFeedValidator integration and Apple categories Blubrry Support: Realistic support response times: We promise we'll answer you! It might not be within an hour though. Our team is mighty, but small. And remember, patience will result in a fuller, better answer. Social media: We're not monitoring social media for support tickets, because we have a ticket system for our service.   Coming at you from the Convo By Design podcast studio at Blubrry’s Columbus, Ohio office. Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Contact Us: todd@blubrry.com mike@blubrry.com mackenzie@blubrry.com

  With only a few days left until Podcast Movement we're getting antsy to head to Orlando. Before that, we've got lots to talk about in podcasting. The Podcast Awards, hosted by Todd, is announcing the nominees this weekend, iHeart is translating shows and Entercom bought up two podcast companies. We also discuss files names, specifically best practices and how to not cause an issue for yourself and your podcast. Lastly, we ask that you please be kind and patient to tech support. Again, we'll be at Podcast Movement next week and we want to see you so, stop by booth #114 to record a promo -- maybe you'll win a RODEcaster Pro -- and ask your podcasting questions at our help desk. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Jeremy Bassetti, All Over the Place Podcast Twitter: @jeremybassetti Podcasting News Podcast Awards nominees announcement on the 10th iHeart translating shows into six languages Recent acquisitions: Entercom buys 2 podcast companies Free podcast hosting comes at a price: Ads you may not want, and no revenue share. Best Practices File names: your media file names do nothing for SEO so simple is better. No spaces or symbols Just letters, numbers, dashes (-) or underscores (_) Do not start the file name with anything but a number or letter Do not end the file name with anything but a number or letter Shorter is better Unique file names (Numbers or dates work for that) This show uses the naming convention with the date. Example, this show’s file name is PCI-2019-08-08.mp3 Mike's show, Podcast Help Desk, uses an even simpler one. PHD123.mp3. The number represents the episode number, to keep the names unique. Blubrry News Podcast Movement next week! Use this link to get 10% off your ticket. Mike: 11:30 on Wednesday, Podcast Distribution. on the solutions stage. Panel: Help us Help You: MacKenzie, Mike, Dave Jackson, Shannon Martin at 1:30pm Wednesday. Todd: 10:15 on Thursday, the 15th State of Podcasting Todd: 11:30 on Thursday, Ads: Delivery and Engagement Beyond the Numbers Todd and Rob Greenlee and guests 4:15 on Thursday: New Media Show Live Advanced Stats are now available for purchase. $5 add-on to hosting. More to come to advanced stats soon... Play Tracking on the Blubrry player Deezer will be available via Blubrry next week Blubrry Support Security Plugins or add-ons for WordPress: Some of them can block things like APPLE. If your feed checks out in CastFeedValidator.com but Apple says they can’t read your feed, then likely you have a firewall or security plugin that is blocking Apple. The user agent for Apple starts with CFNetworks and their IP addresses all start with 17.xxx.xxx.xxx. So, if you are having that issue, check with your web host that you are not blocking those things. Another possible work-around for that would be to use PodcastMirror.com (a free service by Blubrry). Be nice to tech support

  With only a few days left until Podcast Movement we're getting antsy to head to Orlando. Before that, we've got lots to talk about in podcasting. The Podcast Awards, hosted by Todd, is announcing the nominees this weekend, iHeart is translating shows and Entercom bought up two podcast companies. We also discuss files names, specifically best practices and how to not cause an issue for yourself and your podcast. Lastly, we ask that you please be kind and patient to tech support. Again, we'll be at Podcast Movement next week and we want to see you so, stop by booth #114 to record a promo -- maybe you'll win a RODEcaster Pro -- and ask your podcasting questions at our help desk. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Jeremy Bassetti, All Over the Place Podcast Twitter: @jeremybassetti Podcasting News Podcast Awards nominees announcement on the 10th iHeart translating shows into six languages Recent acquisitions: Entercom buys 2 podcast companies Free podcast hosting comes at a price: Ads you may not want, and no revenue share. Best Practices File names: your media file names do nothing for SEO so simple is better. No spaces or symbols Just letters, numbers, dashes (-) or underscores (_) Do not start the file name with anything but a number or letter Do not end the file name with anything but a number or letter Shorter is better Unique file names (Numbers or dates work for that) This show uses the naming convention with the date. Example, this show’s file name is PCI-2019-08-08.mp3 Mike's show, Podcast Help Desk, uses an even simpler one. PHD123.mp3. The number represents the episode number, to keep the names unique. Blubrry News Podcast Movement next week! Use this link to get 10% off your ticket. Mike: 11:30 on Wednesday, Podcast Distribution. on the solutions stage. Panel: Help us Help You: MacKenzie, Mike, Dave Jackson, Shannon Martin at 1:30pm Wednesday. Todd: 10:15 on Thursday, the 15th State of Podcasting Todd: 11:30 on Thursday, Ads: Delivery and Engagement Beyond the Numbers Todd and Rob Greenlee and guests 4:15 on Thursday: New Media Show Live Advanced Stats are now available for purchase. $5 add-on to hosting. More to come to advanced stats soon... Play Tracking on the Blubrry player Deezer will be available via Blubrry next week Blubrry Support Security Plugins or add-ons for WordPress: Some of them can block things like APPLE. If your feed checks out in CastFeedValidator.com but Apple says they can’t read your feed, then likely you have a firewall or security plugin that is blocking Apple. The user agent for Apple starts with CFNetworks and their IP addresses all start with 17.xxx.xxx.xxx. So, if you are having that issue, check with your web host that you are not blocking those things. Another possible work-around for that would be to use PodcastMirror.com (a free service by Blubrry). Be nice to tech support

  With only a few days left until Podcast Movement we're getting antsy to head to Orlando. Before that, we've got lots to talk about in podcasting. The Podcast Awards, hosted by Todd, is announcing the nominees this weekend, iHeart is translating shows and Entercom bought up two podcast companies. We also discuss files names, specifically best practices and how to not cause an issue for yourself and your podcast. Lastly, we ask that you please be kind and patient to tech support. Again, we'll be at Podcast Movement next week and we want to see you so, stop by booth #114 to record a promo -- maybe you'll win a RODEcaster Pro -- and ask your podcasting questions at our help desk. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Interview: Jeremy Bassetti, All Over the Place Podcast Twitter: @jeremybassetti Podcasting News Podcast Awards nominees announcement on the 10th iHeart translating shows into six languages Recent acquisitions: Entercom buys 2 podcast companies Free podcast hosting comes at a price: Ads you may not want, and no revenue share. Best Practices File names: your media file names do nothing for SEO so simple is better. No spaces or symbols Just letters, numbers, dashes (-) or underscores (_) Do not start the file name with anything but a number or letter Do not end the file name with anything but a number or letter Shorter is better Unique file names (Numbers or dates work for that) This show uses the naming convention with the date. Example, this show’s file name is PCI-2019-08-08.mp3 Mike's show, Podcast Help Desk, uses an even simpler one. PHD123.mp3. The number represents the episode number, to keep the names unique. Blubrry News Podcast Movement next week! Use this link to get 10% off your ticket. Mike: 11:30 on Wednesday, Podcast Distribution. on the solutions stage. Panel: Help us Help You: MacKenzie, Mike, Dave Jackson, Shannon Martin at 1:30pm Wednesday. Todd: 10:15 on Thursday, the 15th State of Podcasting Todd: 11:30 on Thursday, Ads: Delivery and Engagement Beyond the Numbers Todd and Rob Greenlee and guests 4:15 on Thursday: New Media Show Live Advanced Stats are now available for purchase. $5 add-on to hosting. More to come to advanced stats soon... Play Tracking on the Blubrry player Deezer will be available via Blubrry next week Blubrry Support Security Plugins or add-ons for WordPress: Some of them can block things like APPLE. If your feed checks out in CastFeedValidator.com but Apple says they can’t read your feed, then likely you have a firewall or security plugin that is blocking Apple. The user agent for Apple starts with CFNetworks and their IP addresses all start with 17.xxx.xxx.xxx. So, if you are having that issue, check with your web host that you are not blocking those things. Another possible work-around for that would be to use PodcastMirror.com (a free service by Blubrry). Be nice to tech support

Music in podcasting; there are many questions out there regarding the legality and capabilities, we’re here to clear that up. A knowledgable and experienced podcaster looked into who is the fastest media host in podcast and shared their findings. PowerPress 7.5 is coming soon and the original Podcast Awards are coming soon. Guest host, Barry Kantz, CFO and General Counsel for RawVoice / Blubrry.         News: Daniel J. Lewis, from the Audacity to Podcast, has done a very technical review, article and research about who is the fastest podcast media host. (Spoiler, Blubrry tied for 1st place!). Also, some very interesting facts about stats for some hosts. PowerPress 7.5 (coming soon) will support WebSub, which does instant updating of Google Podcasts and others, and Multi Blubrry hosting accounts. This is good for people that want more than one podcast feed coming from their site. The original podcast awards show: People’s Choice Podcast Awards nominations are open. Topics: Do you want to use music in your podcasts? Barry, the Master of Fine Print, received a call from a Blubrry customer asking about the legalities of starting a music podcast. This question comes up from time-to-time so Barry explains the ins-and-outs of using music in your show. Support: If you do not see your latest episode in apps or directories, make sure its in your RSS feed first. Mike’s Publishing Checklist: Publish episode (see: youtu.be/MRqsylR1uXw) Clear the cache on your website (how to do that or if you need to do that varies with where you are hosting your site and what caching plugin you may or may not have) Check feed on CastFeedValidator.com to make sure nothing went wrong and to make sure the episode made the RSS feed. Check your favorite podcast app to see that you got the new episode. (YES, subscribe to your own show!) Relax

Music in podcasting; there are many questions out there regarding the legality and capabilities, we’re here to clear that up. A knowledgable and experienced podcaster looked into who is the fastest media host in podcast and shared their findings. PowerPress 7.5 is coming soon and the original Podcast Awards are coming soon. Guest host, Barry Kantz, CFO and General Counsel for RawVoice / Blubrry.         News: Daniel J. Lewis, from the Audacity to Podcast, has done a very technical review, article and research about who is the fastest podcast media host. (Spoiler, Blubrry tied for 1st place!). Also, some very interesting facts about stats for some hosts. PowerPress 7.5 (coming soon) will support WebSub, which does instant updating of Google Podcasts and others, and Multi Blubrry hosting accounts. This is good for people that want more than one podcast feed coming from their site. The original podcast awards show: People’s Choice Podcast Awards nominations are open. Topics: Do you want to use music in your podcasts? Barry, the Master of Fine Print, received a call from a Blubrry customer asking about the legalities of starting a music podcast. This question comes up from time-to-time so Barry explains the ins-and-outs of using music in your show. Support: If you do not see your latest episode in apps or directories, make sure its in your RSS feed first. Mike’s Publishing Checklist: Publish episode (see: youtu.be/MRqsylR1uXw) Clear the cache on your website (how to do that or if you need to do that varies with where you are hosting your site and what caching plugin you may or may not have) Check feed on CastFeedValidator.com to make sure nothing went wrong and to make sure the episode made the RSS feed. Check your favorite podcast app to see that you got the new episode. (YES, subscribe to your own show!) Relax

Music in podcasting; there are many questions out there regarding the legality and capabilities, we’re here to clear that up. A knowledgable and experienced podcaster looked into who is the fastest media host in podcast and shared their findings. PowerPress 7.5 is coming soon and the original Podcast Awards are coming soon. Guest host, Barry Kantz, CFO and General Counsel for RawVoice / Blubrry.         News: Daniel J. Lewis, from the Audacity to Podcast, has done a very technical review, article and research about who is the fastest podcast media host. (Spoiler, Blubrry tied for 1st place!). Also, some very interesting facts about stats for some hosts. PowerPress 7.5 (coming soon) will support WebSub, which does instant updating of Google Podcasts and others, and Multi Blubrry hosting accounts. This is good for people that want more than one podcast feed coming from their site. The original podcast awards show: People’s Choice Podcast Awards nominations are open. Topics: Do you want to use music in your podcasts? Barry, the Master of Fine Print, received a call from a Blubrry customer asking about the legalities of starting a music podcast. This question comes up from time-to-time so Barry explains the ins-and-outs of using music in your show. Support: If you do not see your latest episode in apps or directories, make sure its in your RSS feed first. Mike’s Publishing Checklist: Publish episode (see: youtu.be/MRqsylR1uXw) Clear the cache on your website (how to do that or if you need to do that varies with where you are hosting your site and what caching plugin you may or may not have) Check feed on CastFeedValidator.com to make sure nothing went wrong and to make sure the episode made the RSS feed. Check your favorite podcast app to see that you got the new episode. (YES, subscribe to your own show!) Relax

iTunes may be dead, but Apple Podcasts is doing just fine. Changes are afoot at Apple, announced at WWDC last week and we’ve got all the information you need. Stick around to hear why you want to use WordPress and PowerPress to power your podcast. Mike and Todd were even both in the same time zone this time around to record. Don’t miss them reviewing push vs. pull technology too! Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com. We love our PowerPress users, please leave us a review  News:  APPLE APPLE APPLE It’s official: Apple is killing iTunes as a whole on Mac desktops (iTunes software for Windows, etc.) Categories: They’re updating categories later this year. No need to stress. New Images: Adding new images for podcast posts. We’ll have more details later on. Transcription Search: They’ll be adding this feature to the Podcasts app. iTunes Tags: Changes for the above updates. Topics: Advantages of Being on WordPress and PowerPress with Blubrry Hosting. ( PowerPress *can* be used without Blubrry hosting if you HAVE to) Own your RSS feed by using PowerPress on YOUR domain. Stable platform that is updated regularly for new things in podcasting (like Apple Categories and tags). Not going out of business next week (or without notice). IAB v2.0 Certified Compliant stats. All kinds of support; we offer screen sharing to troubleshoot your issue. Ease of use: Post – Upload – Publish. Using your own domain means you cannot be “deplatformed” easily. Disadvantages of going with a less established platform. Support may be hard to get or nonexistent. You don’t own your RSS feed address. Company stability; no worries on if they’re going out of business in the future. They may submit your feed to the directories (easy) but you don’t own those listings (bad). May not keep up with the changes at Apple or other directories (cough Soundcloud cough) Beware of shiny object syndrome. Things may appear better than they actually are. Support: Directory issues: If an episode isn’t available in only one specific directory, AND you’ve given that directory ample time to update, it is most likely a problem with that app or directory. Please contact that team first. Spotify listings: Lately they’ve been slow updating shows with new episodes. Relax, nothing is wrong, as long as your episode is in your feed and is available in all the other directories. Spotify is just lagging at the time of this recording. By the time you hear this it’s possible the problem has been fixed. All podcast directories and apps utilize your RSS feed. When you update your RSS feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscriber software, all check YOUR RSS feed to see if something is new. It’s not an instant technology like we’re used to with Twitter, Instagram, posting blog posts. etc. It’s common for people to have the wrong impression of how RSS feeds work, thinking they PUSHES out to everyone. It does not. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing. Your subscribers are subscribed to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again – they use it simply for the listening capability. They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. Subscribe to your own show and take care to notice if you receive your new episodes right away. If so, everything is working correctly. It works the same as every other directory or app. There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. This will display the contents of the feed and what is in directories and apps at the time. To ask questions or to comment on the show, you can contact Todd or Mike here: yourpodcast@blubrry.com.

iTunes may be dead, but Apple Podcasts is doing just fine. Changes are afoot at Apple, announced at WWDC last week and we’ve got all the information you need. Stick around to hear why you want to use WordPress and PowerPress to power your podcast. Mike and Todd were even both in the same time zone this time around to record. Don’t miss them reviewing push vs. pull technology too! Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com. We love our PowerPress users, please leave us a review  News:  APPLE APPLE APPLE It’s official: Apple is killing iTunes as a whole on Mac desktops (iTunes software for Windows, etc.) Categories: They’re updating categories later this year. No need to stress. New Images: Adding new images for podcast posts. We’ll have more details later on. Transcription Search: They’ll be adding this feature to the Podcasts app. iTunes Tags: Changes for the above updates. Topics: Advantages of Being on WordPress and PowerPress with Blubrry Hosting. ( PowerPress *can* be used without Blubrry hosting if you HAVE to) Own your RSS feed by using PowerPress on YOUR domain. Stable platform that is updated regularly for new things in podcasting (like Apple Categories and tags). Not going out of business next week (or without notice). IAB v2.0 Certified Compliant stats. All kinds of support; we offer screen sharing to troubleshoot your issue. Ease of use: Post – Upload – Publish. Using your own domain means you cannot be “deplatformed” easily. Disadvantages of going with a less established platform. Support may be hard to get or nonexistent. You don’t own your RSS feed address. Company stability; no worries on if they’re going out of business in the future. They may submit your feed to the directories (easy) but you don’t own those listings (bad). May not keep up with the changes at Apple or other directories (cough Soundcloud cough) Beware of shiny object syndrome. Things may appear better than they actually are. Support: Directory issues: If an episode isn’t available in only one specific directory, AND you’ve given that directory ample time to update, it is most likely a problem with that app or directory. Please contact that team first. Spotify listings: Lately they’ve been slow updating shows with new episodes. Relax, nothing is wrong, as long as your episode is in your feed and is available in all the other directories. Spotify is just lagging at the time of this recording. By the time you hear this it’s possible the problem has been fixed. All podcast directories and apps utilize your RSS feed. When you update your RSS feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscriber software, all check YOUR RSS feed to see if something is new. It’s not an instant technology like we’re used to with Twitter, Instagram, posting blog posts. etc. It’s common for people to have the wrong impression of how RSS feeds work, thinking they PUSHES out to everyone. It does not. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing. Your subscribers are subscribed to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again – they use it simply for the listening capability. They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. Subscribe to your own show and take care to notice if you receive your new episodes right away. If so, everything is working correctly. It works the same as every other directory or app. There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. This will display the contents of the feed and what is in directories and apps at the time. To ask questions or to comment on the show, you can contact Todd or Mike here: yourpodcast@blubrry.com.

iTunes may be dead, but Apple Podcasts is doing just fine. Changes are afoot at Apple, announced at WWDC last week and we’ve got all the information you need. Stick around to hear why you want to use WordPress and PowerPress to power your podcast. Mike and Todd were even both in the same time zone this time around to record. Don’t miss them reviewing push vs. pull technology too! Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com. We love our PowerPress users, please leave us a review  News:  APPLE APPLE APPLE It’s official: Apple is killing iTunes as a whole on Mac desktops (iTunes software for Windows, etc.) Categories: They’re updating categories later this year. No need to stress. New Images: Adding new images for podcast posts. We’ll have more details later on. Transcription Search: They’ll be adding this feature to the Podcasts app. iTunes Tags: Changes for the above updates. Topics: Advantages of Being on WordPress and PowerPress with Blubrry Hosting. ( PowerPress *can* be used without Blubrry hosting if you HAVE to) Own your RSS feed by using PowerPress on YOUR domain. Stable platform that is updated regularly for new things in podcasting (like Apple Categories and tags). Not going out of business next week (or without notice). IAB v2.0 Certified Compliant stats. All kinds of support; we offer screen sharing to troubleshoot your issue. Ease of use: Post – Upload – Publish. Using your own domain means you cannot be “deplatformed” easily. Disadvantages of going with a less established platform. Support may be hard to get or nonexistent. You don’t own your RSS feed address. Company stability; no worries on if they’re going out of business in the future. They may submit your feed to the directories (easy) but you don’t own those listings (bad). May not keep up with the changes at Apple or other directories (cough Soundcloud cough) Beware of shiny object syndrome. Things may appear better than they actually are. Support: Directory issues: If an episode isn’t available in only one specific directory, AND you’ve given that directory ample time to update, it is most likely a problem with that app or directory. Please contact that team first. Spotify listings: Lately they’ve been slow updating shows with new episodes. Relax, nothing is wrong, as long as your episode is in your feed and is available in all the other directories. Spotify is just lagging at the time of this recording. By the time you hear this it’s possible the problem has been fixed. All podcast directories and apps utilize your RSS feed. When you update your RSS feed with a new episode, directories, apps and subscriber software, all check YOUR RSS feed to see if something is new. It’s not an instant technology like we’re used to with Twitter, Instagram, posting blog posts. etc. It’s common for people to have the wrong impression of how RSS feeds work, thinking they PUSHES out to everyone. It does not. ALL these places and your subscribers PULL your feed. It asks for your feed when it gets around to it and PULLS your feed to update your listing. Your subscribers are subscribed to your feed and after that never really touch Apple Podcasts or the other services again – they use it simply for the listening capability. They are just subscribed to your feed directly in their app of choice. Subscribe to your own show and take care to notice if you receive your new episodes right away. If so, everything is working correctly. It works the same as every other directory or app. There is nothing we or you can do to make that faster. It takes whatever time it takes. To check your RSS feed to make sure it’s working and which episodes are in it, go to CastFeedValidator.com and put your RSS feed address in the box and validate. This will display the contents of the feed and what is in directories and apps at the time. To ask questions or to comment on the show, you can contact Todd or Mike here: yourpodcast@blubrry.com.

In this week's show we're going to tell you all about why babies are NOT podcast killers, and we've recruited some stories to support this. Thank you to DigitalSoup, Jay, Keir, Amos and Emily for contributing to this episode.  In this week's Better Podcasting Download we tell you how SP is finally on Spotify AND how Blubrry bought CastFeedValidator.  Finally, we'll take your feedback from around the #podcast world! Do you have something to say about the art of hobby podcasting? Do you want to chime in on an episode of Better Podcasting? You can always ping us on Better Podcasting on the internet at the following places: @BetterPod http://facebook.com/betterpodcasting http://betterpodcasting.com Not familiar with Better Podcasting? We talk about podcast tips, tools and best practices to help you succeed with your podcast! Just like you we podcast purely out of the love and the fun of it. Podcasting is our hobby and we love that it is yours too! We always encourage your questions and feedback and you can find all of our contact information at betterpodcasting.com. We thank you for listening, downloading and subscribing to Better Podcasting. We hope you come back for more Better Podcasting! Happy Podcasting! This podcast was recorded on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 – Streamed Live to www.Geeks.Live. Audio/Video Production by Stephen Jondrew of GonnaGeek.com.