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Celebrating our 200th with some of your voices! Plus, Skype recording follow-up, getting recommended by Google Podcast, what’s required for real life conferences, more on the Facebook Podcasts experience, what to do when your podcast is pirated and Stats! User agents and geographic. Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message voicelink.fm/thefeed. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :00 Audio: The Paranormal Guy :30 Audio: Guitar Speak Podcast 1:01 Intro 1:50 Audio: Legends of the Pacific 3:49 Audio: Fix It Home Improvement 4:03 Audio: The Jeep Talk Show 4:14 Rob and Elsie conversation Follow up on the native Skype recording We had a webinar with Advertisecast! Google Podcasts sent out the email all about getting recommended on Google Podcasts 23:20 Audio: J. Brown Yoga Talks Podcast 26:01 Both NAB and CES just announced they are requiring yo

A round-up of soooo many things! Podcast Movement recap, including the Fireside Chat partnership, all kinds up updates from Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Audacity, Glow.FM part of Spotify Open Access partnership program and Facebook starts emailing podcasters to add their shows, and of course stats! Mean and median numbers! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message voicelink.fm/thefeed. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:16 PROMO 1: StarGirl 3:44 Rob and Elsie conversation Skype version 8.74.0.152! And we’re recording as a back up! Recap of the Fireside announcement at Podcast Movement Apple Podcasts update of iOS 14.7 An email from Apple Podcasts sharing all the new analytics It seems that Apple Podcasts have been approving new shows in less than one hour Google Podcasts update! New requirements for recommendation Audac

Glow.fm + Spotify Open Access! Then on the episode, really awesome brand new podcasting gear, transformative data from the Latino Podcast Listener report, Canva + Libsyn, Pocketcasts & Automattic, Goodpods update Libsyn 5 social sharing? And geographic plus user agent stats Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message voicelink.fm/thefeed. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:44 PROMO 1: StarGirl Rob and Elsie conversation Catching up on Rob’s experience with Summer NAMM Very cool potential gear for podcasters Canva integration! I know you know, but again, good stuff Shout-out to Hosting Advice All the stats from the Latino Podcast Listener Report! Pocketcasts was acquired by Automattic Audioboom is looking to go private 37:51 Headliner integration for LIbsyn 5? Audio feedback Goodpods has a great feature for indie podcasters! T

Our new JioSaavn destination, breaking down the Libsyn 5 Beta 1.1 release, Apple released an update as to why your downloads might be down, LibsynPro stats API, Audacity privacy troubles and a response from Muse, and of course mean and median stats JULY 13: SIGN UP FOR THE LATINO PODCAST LISTENER REPORT → English presentation → Spanish presentation JULY 15: SIGN UP FOR THE FOCUSRITE WEBINAR Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message voicelink.fm/thefeed. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:33 PROMO 1: Childless Not By Choice — Happy Anniversary, Civilla! Rob and Elsie conversation It’s Elsie’s almost 15 year anniversary in podcasting! And Rob’s getting contact high off of something you’d never imagine Into the Libsyn-centric portion of the show! There’s a new Destination in town! JioSaavn Libsyn 5 beta 1.1 and all of the amazin

Talking about Spotify! Their latest 60 million dollar deal with Alex Cooper from Call Her Daddy and its new Greenroom, then all that we know about Facebook Podcasts aka all that we don’t, the Kindle Vella and what it can mean for podcasters, an antitrust bill that could impact podcasting and of course our stats, geographic and user agent! Plus a bunch bunch more. Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message voicelink.fm/thefeed. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:30 PROMO 1: The David Cassidy Connections Podcast Rob and Elsie conversation Apple Channels and Apple Subscriptions are live! No, any plays or downloads on Apple Podcasts premium content will not show up in your podcast host’s analytics Alex Cooper scored a 60 million dollar deal with Spotify Spotify launched Greenroom, yet another au

On this episode we fill you in on the closing of Advertisecast, warning you about a serious scam from folks sending out DMCA takedowns for images and in the email they send there is a link that uses java script to infect your computer, keeping you posted on the latest Apple Podcasts emails plus subscriptions and channels are live today! Changing ownership in Apple Podcasts plus of course mean and median stats! Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412–573–1934 or leave us a message voicelink.fm/thefeed. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:30 PROMO 1: Strokecast - Episode 132 4:02 Rob and Elsie Conversation Libsyn has closed the Advertisecast deal! WARNING! Scam! Emails and comments on blogs demanding that a copyrighted image be taken down. Beware. Apple sent an email a couple of weeks ago updating folks that subscriptions

Canva integration, MGM studios, Netflix, images not showing up while searching on Google for podcasts, Artwork specs (yep, again,) all kinds of Apple Podcasts stuff including a very interesting word being censored that starts with m, and this time the stats convo is all about Call Her Daddy! Join the beta! beta.libsyn.com/key/libsynbeta Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message here: https://voicelink.fm/thefeed. We'd love to hear from you!** SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER! https://thefeed.libsyn.com/contact Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:08 PROMO 1: Not Just Another Religion and Politics Podcast 3:36 Rob and Elsie Conversation Canva integration! Amazon acquired MGM Studios and what that means for podcasting Netflix is ‘expanding’ it’s podcasting footprint 21:54 Voice feedback about Voicelink.fm from Neal How important is your description to find potential listeners? Why when searching

OMG Audacity was acquired, clarifying more about the Apple Podcasts summary tag, how to get promoted on Amazon Music, podcasting music history, testing a new voice feedback service, stats, geographic and user agent and folks listening to this, we have a segment where we speak to your Amazon smart speaker — over and over and over — so please make sure you’re wearing headphones! SIGN UP FOR OUR WEBINAR RE: LIBSYN 5! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/l5update Join the beta! beta.libsyn.com/key/libsynbeta Audience feedback drives the show. We'd love for you to contact us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com, call 412-573-1934 or leave us a message here: https://voicelink.fm/thefeed. We'd love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER! https://thefeed.libsyn.com/contact Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 2:58 PROMO 1: Your Brain on Facts 3:28 Rob and Elsie Conversation Talking about the Apple Podcasts summary tag and why you should no longer use it Audacity was acquired! WUT? Apple Podcasts has bee

Starting off right off the bat with a ton of information and the mind-blowing amount of podcasting news: The Apple Event, subscriptions, Spotify, Facebook, Libsyn 5 & feedback, clarification about tags, keywords, and categories on Apple Podcasts, using the Zoom H2N as an external microphone, and of course mean and median numbers Come hang out with Elsie Escobar and Rob Greenlee in the very first Clubhouse event in club LibsynPod! May 4 at 3 pm ET - You can join through this link! https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/libsynpod So sorry, iOS only for now

Recap on acquisitions and of course Glow, iOS 14.5 (again,) listener privacy, Feedburner coming back from the dead? Amazon Music in more countries Shout-outs from Elsie, the RIAA busy with takedown notices and podcasters needing to get DMCA takedown lessons, plus of course stats, geographic and user agent! SIGN UP FOR SOCIAL MEDIA BEST PRACTICES FOR PODCASTERS!  Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:38 PROMO 1: The Audiophile Style Podcast 4:20 Rob and Elsie Conversation Recap of all the things acquisitions and of course Glow Glow and MyLibsyn? Guess what? iOS 14.5 should be out by the time this episode is out Listener privacy is not a roadblock to get around 33:05 PROMO 2: K12Science Podcast Feedburner is not dead! Amazon Music has opened up access to more countries and t

Another BONUS episode and another acquisition! Libsyn has acquired Glow.FM and we have Founder Amira Valliani with inside scoop on what it is, who it’s for and why Libsyn! LINKS LINKS LINKS! Crowdcast Webinar with Amira from Glow.FM Interested in signing up for Glow? Fill out this form! Glow.FM Refer-o-Matic Glow.FM press release Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We’d love it if you could please share The Feed with your Twitter followers. Click here to post a tweet! If you dug this episode, head over to Podchaser and kindly leave us a review and follow the show! Follow The Feed wherever you listen to audio! → Follow via Apple Podcasts → Follow via Google Podcasts → Follow via Spotify → Here’s our RSS feed! FEEDBACK AND

All the Libsyn news! Libsyn 5 beta is released, Libsyn acquires Advertisecast, Samsung Podcasts are in the house

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More acquisitions, breaking down iOS 14.5 updates, plus a bit of a clarification from Rob, the privacy conversation and when the pendulum swings back, The Feed was listened to in the Arctic! Podcasters on the cover of a magazine, the worth of festivals and awards, stats geographic and user agent plus a bonus recap of The Infinite Dial data! SIGN UP FOR THE LIBSYN 5 DEMO AND QA WEBINAR! Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 2:59 PROMO 1: Backyard Ecology 3:28 Rob and Elsie Convo! Podcorn acquired by Entercom Update on iOS 14.5 and the new features When eCamm Call Recorder keeps working Auto-updating player that updates to the latest episode 15:38 Audio feedback - listener privacy The pendulum swinging back, when a brand does not want to advertise with you if you are tracking

Updates! Apple Podcasts 14.5 and what you should expect, The most important information for podcasters from the Spotify event, Podcast Movement submissions are open, CDPA is signed into law and what that means for podcasting, no, Spotify is not bigger than Apple Podcasts, mean and median download numbers + bonus data on the appropriate length for podcast episodes. If you’re interested in Podcast Branding and how that can help you grow your show attend our free webinar! Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 2:59 PROMO 1: Backyard Ecology 3:21 Rob and Elsie Convo! It seems like Vitamin D looks just like Melatonin, now you know Update on Apple Podcasts iOS 14.5 and what you should expect The most important information for podcasters from the Spotify event Goats traveling in car

So many acquisitions! And this time we get in the game with acquiring Auxbus, chatting about Quilt, Spotify takedowns and patents, Vurbl, podcaster in the news, updates on the Google block tag, and Apple Podcasts podcasting strategy plus download stats, this time geographic and user agent! GET A FREE PODFEST GLOBAL TICKET! Use coupon code libsyn5 for a free entry level pass! Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 2:19 PROMO 1: Living a Life in Full 2:56 Rob and Elsie Convo! An update on Super Bowl advertising numbers. Woah. Feedback for speaking truth and a goat zoom call service! We purchased AuxBus, yahoo! iHeart has acquired Triton from Scripps And goodness, MORE Acast acquired RadioPublic Quilt! Another audio community Spotify was sending out some notifications of podcas

Covering iOS beta 14.5 and big changes to Apple Podcasts, a new strategy for promoting our podcast via blog, Stitcher search results, a changing podcast artwork, getting the video of your transcoded audio podcast, data privacy discussion inspired by Tim Cook and stats, this time, mean and median download numbers! Libsyn Meet-up, sign up! Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:25 PROMO 1: The Perfect Stool 3:45 Rob and Elsie Convo! Oh wowza! Pretty big change to the Apple Podcasts App in iOS 14.5 beta - the biggest change in quite some time The many ways this change could possibly change so much about what we currently know about Apple Podcasts (speculation on steroids) Should you include episode numbers in the title in Apple Podcasts? 18:44 PROMO 2: In Clear Focus MacBook

Podcast etiquette, the power of clean HTML, Hopin acquisition of Streamyard, podcasters with COVID, Apple Spotlight and subscription speculation, clarifications, updated ad insertion tools, the power of Destinations, square vs wide format podcast art, geographic and user agent stats and oh, so much more

Starting off the year with more conversations about privacy, acquisitions of Wondery and Breaker, Clubhouse, lots of feedback from YOU, mean and median download stats and so much more, including a bonus discussion with Rob Greenlee about the Podcast Academy and the Podcast Index! Join the Libsyn Beta Community TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:30 PROMO 1: Blame Your Brother 3:58 Rob & Elsie conversation It’s a new year and time to change your copyright! All kinds of new media has gone into the public domain Elsie and her new M1 MacBook Air Tim Cook, privacy and Megaphone Amazon aqcuired Wondery and Breaker acquired by Twitter Elsie weighs in about Clubhouse Follow up on mic boom arms 34:55 A conversation with Rob Greenlee about the Podcast Academy and The Podcast Index Audio feedback from Christ

The Feed 2020 is over! And we cover Elsie’s goat going viral, the iOS 14 privacy update, is there a benefit to doing ‘seasons?’ The Golden Crane Awards, Chartable updates, AirPods Max, Elsie & Rob 2021 podcast predictions, plus of course stats, geographic and user agent! Join the Libsyn Beta TODAY! Audience feedback drives the show. We’d love for you to email us and keep the conversation going! Email thefeed@libsyn.com or call 412–573–1934. We’d love to hear from you! SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE! Quick Episode Summary :13 Intro 3:25 PROMO 1: Getting To The Truth In This Art 3:45 Rob & Elsie conversation And we begin with a discussion of a viral goat video The privacy update in iOS 14 is out The benefit of using seasons We have an indie podcaster nominated for an iHeartRadio Awards! The Golden Crane Awards! An update on the Chartable update - very meta 23:05 PROMO 2: The Sample Chapter An update on Rob’s studio and a discussion about boom arms for microphones Elsie’s set up and she’s looking for f