Notices by Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂ (samsethi@podcastindex.social)

Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses - WSJ. -

Trumps remanufacturing plan in USA will not bring jobs for humans.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-robots-automation-942b814f

@mijustin @dave @adam We have HLS playback support in our iOS production, desktop and PWA. We have it working on our Google Beta App.

@dave @james @theDanielJLewis

I checked out this new podroll update. This site is a great resource, thank you. We are adding a link to the site in the TrueFans footer.

BTW TrueFans was the first app to support the podroll, could you pls add TrueFans to this page.

We go further than the other apps. We turn the podroll into a 'dynamic' playlist. It means anyone can play the podroll, add/edit it in their own playlist. Being a dynamic playlist it auto updates to include the latest episodes.

Why are more users willing to pay for ad-free quality digital content? What does this mean for the future of advertising if the people who can afford to pay for ad-free content are the same people advertisers want to reach?

- YouTube CEO Neal Mohan spoke at Cannes Lions this week and unsurprisingly he said "people don’t want to just listen”. More worryingly, he also spoke about a new form of branded commercial advertising for podcasts. Will this be more like uninterruptible TV commercials?

1/2 - On this week's Podnews Weekly Review, James Cridland and I discuss key podcast trends.

- Podcasting is a mainstream media in Australia, the US and UK with over 50% of people listening to a podcast every month in each country. Our time and attention is limited so what other media is declining?

- YouTube is the main access point for news podcasts in the US.

- Why are "Downloads decreasing for many podcasts" but podcast listen/watch time is growing?

@adam @dave @james TrueFans 1.0 native app submitted to Apple and Google. In the review process now.

Hey @dave Truefans supports HLS enclosure, alt enclosure and live

PodToo is serving this show as HLS https://truefans.fm/women-in-business/6676791046a595e9f4064525

I think New Media Show is served as HLS

I think all podcasting 2.0 apps support HLS. PodToo has enabled HLS today in the Alternate Enclosure.

Congrats @russell

Hubhopper will turn on their HLS support soon. Who else? RSSBlue. Podhome, Blubrry?

FYI:YouTube supports HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) for live streaming.

However, YouTube only supports Media Playlists for HLS ingestion and ignores Master Playlists, which define different resolutions.

Netflix supports LL-HLS but Spotify does not support HLS.

1/6 - Activitystreams are the W3C standard we need to accurately measure and share podcast listening metrics?

1. The Problem
Counting downloads is a legacy metric of Podcasting 1.0. Like the Monty Python parrot, it's dead - remember a download is not a listen.

Equally the recent proprietary play count measurement suggested by Spotify, Apple and YouTube is inconsistent between these apps and thus not comparable. And with each app enabling auto-plays, did someone really play your podcast?

4/6 - The Solution
TrueFans has already implemented Activitystreams. We have 20+ activity verbs to track listener behaviour such as play, comment, share, follow etc.

Users can choose what activity verbs to display Listeners can also choose to make their Activitystreams public or private.

They can choose to share their Activitystreams to the social web e.g Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads or X. You can also export your Activitystream by picking the verbs and months you want to download an XML file.

@tchambers @benpate

Hi Tim

I really want to demo but away from 1st -6th June.

TrueFans build native ActivityStreams using 30+ verbs to track user behaviour. Play, Follow, Share, Watch, Comment etc.

We show this in the user Activity Tab e.g Sam listened to Podnews Weekly for 60 mins., percent completed 80% and value paid §100 sats

We also allow the user to publish some or all of their activity via ActivityPub. So I might want to just share my play activity to the social web. #fediverse

@tchambers @benpate

We have also built something called SecureRSS aka L.402 to enable creators to mix freemium and premium content in the same RSS feed.

In two weeks on Podnews Weekly Review I will be interviewing Oscar from Fountain Blue about how they have used L.402

Hosts need to adopt this asap. Paywall sites like Patreon will disappear why manage two feeds and two accounts your hosting account and your Patreon account.

I wrote about it here.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samsethi_securerss-is-the-future-of-podcasting-activity-7330230763335921665-YvVF

1/3 - I'm excited to announce TrueFans has launched not one but two new podcasts.

A few weeks ago, we launched our training course podcast called Fanzone, which is a bi-weekly series of eighteen 3-5 minute episodes covering every aspect on how to use TrueFans from a user's perspective.

The podcast is produced and hosted by Claire Waite Brown, who also created the highly successful Podcasting 2.0 in Practice course.

1/2 - MasterCard enables Stabelcoins

"Mastercard will enable stablecoin spending via traditional cards through partnerships with platforms. Consumers can use stablecoins stored in their wallets at over 150M merchant locations worldwide. Mastercard Move also facilitates withdrawals of stablecoins to bank accounts."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zahid-ali-9b899a40_stablecoinspendingandsettlement-enhancingtheuserexperience-activity-7322918497620021248-9iuc

Good news TrueFans has been approved by Stripe to now payout creators.

We are connecting the updated API so Creators on TrueFans will be able to withdraw funds from their TrueFans wallet either via direct payment to another lightning wallet or now to their Stripe account in a Fiat currency.

@evan have you seen TrueFans is 100% built on the Activitystream format. And we apply micropayments to the 30 verbs in TrueFans for gamification. So we have leaderboards, badges, and superfans.

We also publish to X, ActivityPub, Bluesky, Threads and Linkedin the users activity.

2/2 So I exported my data from ActivityPub/Mastodon, and to my surprise the export is in ActivityStreams.

@evan @chris @dave

1/2 - TrueFans now allows you to export your podcast activity in the W3C ActivityStreams 2.0 format.

We use the AS2.0 structure - Actor, Verb, Object format. e.g Sam (Actor), Plays (Verb), Podnews Weekly (Object). plus attributes Listen Time, Percent Completed, Value Paid.

We enable users to auto publish their activity to X, ActivityPub, BlueSky, Threads and Linkedin.

We allow Creators to do the same.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

/cc @evan @chris @dave

@tchambers @russell @nathan @dave @adam @StevenB @steven @james @merryoscar Hi Tim we have integration in and out of the Fediverse e.g Auto-posting my activities to TrueFans.social and others can follow my account. Auto posting to BlueSky and Threads. We also aggregate comments into TrueFans from ActivityPub/Mastodon, X, and BlueSky. I am not sure what people would like to see at Fediforum? So I have not applied.

Tune.FM is an interesting new company. It compares to Wavlake and LNBeats. They also use a micropayment system based on a platform called Hedera Hash???

They use JAM Tokens for direct to musician payments from fans. They use gamification, social networking plus rewards.

This is worth reading. We have many similar ideas for TrueFans. i.e fans pay creators but also creators can pay fans.

WhitePaper
https://tune.fm/public/landing/images/Tune.FM(JAM)WhitepaperV4.pdf

Hedera Payments
https://hedera.com/

@adam @dave @james