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   John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:44 JST John Spurlock

   New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new eps in May 2024

   Since there are a very clear top 3 (Spotify for Podcasters, Spreaker, Buzzsprout), I added another graph without them to see the others more clearly.

   https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/

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     Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂ (samsethi@podcastindex.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:26 JST Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂

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     • Castopod :podcasting2:
     • Aslak Raanes
     • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸
     • Dwev
     • Guy Martin (Dwev) :pc2red:

     @benjaminbellamy @dwev @aslakr @dwev@mstdn.dk @js @Castopod I don't care about download metrics. IMHO they are irrelevant and the Emporer's new clothes. I read this paragraph from an old NPR document discussing RAD.

     Downloads do not equal listens and there is no data about Listen Time, % Completed or Value Paid. The ONLY reason we still persist with this old legacy metric is it's the only metric hosts can offer podcasters. First-party data is with the apps.

     https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2018/12/11/675250553/remote-audio-data-is-here

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     :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:29 JST :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     • Castopod :podcasting2:
     • Aslak Raanes
     • Dwev
     • Guy Martin (Dwev) :pc2red:

     @dwev @aslakr @dwev@mstdn.dk @js @Castopod I am turning off notifications otherwise you'd hear me cursing all day long. I find all this extremely UNGRATEFUL and UNFAIR to everything we've been doing for this ecosystem and community for the past four years. All I'm thinking about now is completely removing OP3 from Castopod next release and never talk about it, ever again.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Aslak Raanes (aslakr@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:32 JST Aslak Raanes

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     • Castopod :podcasting2:
     • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸
     • Dwev

     @benjaminbellamy @dwev @js @Castopod Does this mean that e.g. the WordPress on that list is only for wordpress.com, noe anyone who publish podcasts using a self hosted WordPress?

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     Guy Martin (Dwev) :pc2red: (dwev@podcastindex.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:32 JST Guy Martin (Dwev) :pc2red:

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     • Castopod :podcasting2:
     • Aslak Raanes
     • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸
     • Dwev

     @aslakr @benjaminbellamy @dwev@mstdn.dk @js @Castopod it’s using the url of the enclosed media, so if you’re serving media from s3 or Cloudflare, I’m not sure how it appears in the host stats - there is another chart for CDNs.

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     :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:35 JST :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     • Castopod :podcasting2:
     • Dwev

     @dwev @js @Castopod @js
     ...and it will NEVER appear: "We use the actual media file url"
     It does not use the "generator" tag from the RSS feed.
     So each self hosted podcast on Castopod counts as one different host company. 🤦
     I've been complaining about that for years but it seems that no one hears me screaming...
     This is REALLY discouraging...
     When I give up on all that you'll know why. 🤬

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     Dwev (dwev@mstdn.dk)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 19:14:37 JST Dwev

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     • Castopod :podcasting2:

     @js but where is @Castopod? It never appears on this list!