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The Feed The Official Libsyn Podcast

Who is the Soapy the libsyn mascot? iHeartMedia, Spotify, Voxnest and Megaphone news, Stitcher issues, more fun new gear from Zoom, search in Audible, pro-privacy former presidential candidate fails at podcasting privacy and of course, the latest in geographic and user agent with a bonus of Q3 breakdowns of Apple Podcasts’ top categories!

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Quick Episode Summary

• :13 Intro
• 3:20 PROMO 1: Notnerd
• 3:51 Rob and Elsie Conversation
• Congrats to President Elects and Happy 16th Birthday to Libsyn
• Audio feedback from Kamuela asking about Soapy!
• iHeartMedia buys Voxnest
• Spotify buys Megaphone
• What do you when you’re podcast consultant quotes download number results that are awfully high?
• Oh no! Stitcher had some issues with their URLs
• Terry’s audio feedback on Gaana and Amazon Music
• Apple seems to have dropped support for a couple of iTunes feed tags
• Fun new toys from Zoom - again
• PROMO 2: Memories With A Beat
• Feedback on the experience of sharing podcasts from Audible
• Elsie has some thoughts about how search in Audible works at the moment
• An update on exporting stats from the Libsyn stat page
• Do NOT make your trailer episode a 2 1/2 minute song because Spotify will kick you out
• Audio feedback - Terry asks about Alexa
• Some support for episode artwork!
• Worst email of the week all about Spotify not owning podcasting
• Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang gets called out for not taking responsibility to protect his podcast audience’s privacy
• PROMO 3: The Freelance Roadtrip
• Stats! Geographic and user agent
• Q3 2020 Breakdowns by Apple Podcasts Top Categories
• Where have we been?
• Where are we going?

Featured Podcast Promos + Audio

• PROMO 1: Notnerd
• PROMO 2: Memories With A Beat
• PROMO 3: The Freelance Roadtrip
• Kamuela from Legends of The Pacific
• Terry from VideoFuzzy
• Terry from The Discovering America Podcast

Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro!

Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie

• Our SpeakPipe Feedback page! Leave us feedback :)
• Now You Can Embed an Apple Podcasts Player For Your Website!
• iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT) Q3 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
• Zoom F2 and F2-BT: field recorders that can fit in your pocket
• The Zoom F2 Field Recorder : Introduction
• Andrew Yang takes lead in California data privacy measure

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