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MacKenzie talks with Toby Goodman from the Blubrry Pro-Production team on this shorty episode. Blubrry Pro-Production is now available for all of our professional hosting customers to help you launch your podcast or simply put your show on auto-pilot – a dedicated team is standing by.

Toby Goodman, VP Production European Division, is part of that team focused exclusively on Pro-Production. He’s been working in audio for 20 years and podcasting for 7+ years, so it’s safe to say he’s experienced. For any questions concerning the new service, reach out to Toby or MacKenzie.

For those that are in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! We will have a full episode next week.

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Coming at you this week from the Convo by Design Studio in Columbus, Ohio and London, UK.

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mackenzie@blubrry.com

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We’re inching closer to Thanksgiving here in the U.S and podcasters and companies are busy with lots of releases before the end of the year. The Blubrry team released a new product and service this month, and Todd and Mike discuss some changes that are happening with Spotify and Forbes. Be sure to stick around to hear about support phone hours and when we’ll be out for the holidays.

Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider.

News:

• More news from Spotify: adding a daily podcast playlist
• Forbes: Podcasting is going mainstream. Yes, we know this.
• Indie is the majority. The majority of podcast listeners, listen to indie podcasts.

Best Practice:

• Create an e-book: repurpose your content in a multiple of ways.

Blubrry News:

• Pro-Production services, now coming from Blubrry. We’ve got a whole team working on editing, producing and more for hosting customers.
• PowerPress 8.1 is in internal beta (more changes to UI)
• Blubrry holiday hours
  • Nov. 28 Thanksgiving OFF
  • Nov. 29 Black Friday OFF
  • Dec. 24 Christmas Eve 8AM – Noon
  • Dec. 25 Christmas OFF
  • Dec. 31 NYE 8AM – Noon
  • Jan. 1 New Years OFF
  • Jan. 2+ normal business hours
• Consult with Todd (Blubrry hosting customers) contact him at todd@blubrry.com

Interview:

Scottye Moore – BS Network

Support:

• PowerPress Destination can help you get onto apps and directories.
• Episode Artwork: Only some apps use it, and there are two places to put episode images: ID3 tags (in the file) and in the feed. Some use one, some use the other and some use none (like Apple). Mike talks about it in this episode of Podcast Help Desk.
• New phone support hours: 9AM – 7PM EST Monday -Thursday, 9AM – 5PM EST Friday. We’ll be adding Saturday hours soon. As always, you can contact support anytime at blubrry.com/contact/

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Coming at you this week from the Convo by Design Studio in Columbus, Ohio and Mike Dell’s World Studio in Traverse City, Michigan.

Contact Us:
todd@blubrry.com
mike@blubrry.com
mackenzie@blubrry.com

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Nick Howell, shares his trials and tribulations of podcasting, and being involved in multiple shows. Since Todd is attending and speaking at Digital Hollywood, Angelo Mandato guest hosted this week. He’s got lots of Blubrry information to share and information on podcasting growth. If you’re planning on starting a show before the New Year, we highly recommend paying attention to the Apple portion of this episode as they take time off for the holidays.

Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider.

News:

• As of November 2019 63% of the worlds smartphones are Android. According to Scientia Mobile’s Mobile Overview Report for Q3 2019.
• Castbox.fm is the most popular app in Brazil!
• Sony and the Onion are teaming up! For a new podcast, called The Tropical
• Adobe demo’d Automatic de-umming feature. Here’s a video from Project SoundSeek.
• Launch Control from Apple Podcasts is now available in Podcasts Connect.

Manage Show Launches

“You can now hide shows while being reviewed for approval. This way you can easily manage the launch of new shows directly from Podcasts Connect.

Simply select Hide Podcast after submitting it for review — this action will not impact or delay the feed’s review process. When approved, you can then select Unhide Podcast and allow up to 24 hours for your show to become searchable on Apple Podcasts.” – Apple Podcasts

Best Practice:

• File name: simple is better for your media file names.

Blubrry News:

• Podcast Network Plugin launches today! Read the press release.
• Who is Angelo? CIO, co-founder and Lead Developer for Blubrry Podcasting / RawVoice Inc.
• Blubrry PowerPress updates are moving along. Getting started is replacing Simple Mode in PowerPress (The support team approves!)

Interview:

Nick Howell – Orbital Jigsaw Network

Support:

• Dreaded Apple Podcasts login loop has been solved.
• Spotify stats: they’re not the same as “podcast” stats.
• Expanded phone support hours starting Monday, Nov 18. 9AM – 7PM Eastern Monday – Thursday. Expanded Phone hours for support starting Monday!  9a-7p eastern to Monday -Thursday and 9AM – 5PM Eastern Friday. Saturday hours will be coming soon. As always, you can contact support at blubrry.com/contact

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Coming at you this week from the Convo by Design Studio in Columbus, Ohio and Mike Dell’s World Studio in Traverse City, Michigan.

Contact Us:
todd@blubrry.com
mike@blubrry.com
mackenzie@blubrry.com

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Lots of podcasting news to discuss, specifically well-known organizations making changes to their podcasting plans. Mike and Todd talk about some failed or difficult services at the moment and how best to deal with those challenges. Such as with Google, PodPress and Pandora and iHeart.

Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider.

News:

• Those flying on JetBlue Airways can now experience Spotify exclusive podcasts.
• Universal Content Productions, UCP, is launching a few shows in the near future.
• Podcasts for kids, Spotify is creating a stand-alone app just for kids shows.
• New host for Ted Radio Hour. Manoush Zomordi will be taking over for Guy Raz.
• NPR is merging their apps: NPR One and the general NPR app will now be found together starting in 2020.
• Deezer, who you can submit your podcast to from Blubrry, now has a dedicated podcast section.

Best Practice:  Lets Talk Marketing

• Be where your audience is.
• Attend one event a year in your subject area.

Blubrry News:

• Our Next Best Tool contest is ending soon.
• The Divi Theme version 4 upgrade is causing issues with PowerPress feeds (mostly missing episodes in the feed) to fix this only publish podcast posts without using the Divi builder to avoid the issue. Divi is working on a solution. You can also use the previous version of Divi theme until they get it fixed. Contact Elegant Themes support for help with this issue.
• Reminder: The new TechPodcasts.com is live.

Interview:

Joshua Manley – Nerd On! The Podcast

Support:

• Google Podcasts – Your link might not work, find your Google Podcasts link here: https://search.google.com/devtools/podcast/preview (do a google search for Google Podcasts Preview)
• Feed Discovery Setting (this helps you get on Google Podcasts) in PowerPress.
• Pandora and iHeart radio: They can be picky and it will take a while to get on them. We put the destination in PowerPress for those who are in those directories. No guarantees you will get into those directories.
• If you’re hosting with us, Spotify will accept you as long as your feed is technically good. (no M4A files) Pass thru coming.
• Deezer, will accept you if your feed is technically good. No need to host with Blubrry but you must be listed in Blubrry and have claimed your show listing.
• Anyone out there still using PodPress (a really old podcasting plugin for WordPress) needs to change to PowerPress (or something else I guess) right away. PodPress has been hacked. WordPress.org even says it’s no longer available for download.
• One-on-one video screen-sharing support: Yes, we do that! but only for paying customers. Our free products (stats, PowerPress without hosting and directory listings) are not eligible for that level of support. Our Support team will help you via our contact form (currently blubrry.com/contact/ ).

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Coming to you from the New Media Studio in Southern Michigan and Mike Dell’s World studio in Northern Michigan.

Contact Us:
todd@blubrry.com
mike@blubrry.com
mackenzie@blubrry.com