124 It's Not A Guessing Game, It's A Trend Game

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Quick Episode Summary: Intro :07 Audio Rockin’ Libsyn Podcast: The Bearded Tog 4:14 How you can be featured by Libsyn! 6:40 PROMO 1: The Soul Mammas Podcast 8:18 Elsie and Rob Conversation 8:51 Feedback from James Cridland all about the Google Podcast App being native 9:40 Some news about Search Engines Journal and podcasts are more popular than blogs? Ooh! Another way to not be accepted by Apple Podcasts and iTunes! How do you put an episode on the “Best of the Podcast” in Apple Podcasts? Concerns about ASCAP and BMI when playing music with permission from he artist on the podcast If you update existing podcast episodes rating from explicit to clean, will it update in Apple Podcasts? There is a process towards having your podcast on Plex! And of course one of our listeners delivered the goods More feedback on enhanced podcasts aka those with chapter markers, this time via the mighty Chris Christensen 31:26 How you can use timecodes to facilitate jumping to certain parts of an episode using Overcast #MarcoIsAGenius PROMO 2: Mongobay 39:44 Are downloads “a tally of how many times someone clicks a play button?” Commentary on the difference between server side stats and client side stats How to get a date range of stats from initial post date from a podcast episode to 30 days after it was released, easily, within the Libsyn podcast advanced stats Niche advertising rates still win the race and how we paint a picture with the paint and canvas given Podcast download data: it’s not a guessing game, it’s a trend game MP3 are the winners! Always Why does the formatting for shownotes show up all messed up in different places? For any “listens” or audience building to really matter per episode it needs to expand into the next episodes - trend lines must go up S-Town is getting sued, ugh, is there no loyalty? We discuss Oh my! People think that publishers are just now discovering podcasters and signing them to book deals! Moxie has some voice feedback asking when is the best time to release and episode? 1:02:57 Why did you leave us segment 1:06:24 The worst email in the past 2 weeks - this time it’s Elsie’s Where YOU been? A new segment and a request for a bumper! PROMO 3: Future of Humanity 1:14:25 Stats! Geographic and user agent! Featured Podcast Promos + Audio The Soul Mammas Podcast Mongabay Future of Humanity The Bearded Tog James from Podnews Chris from Amateur Traveler Moxie from Your Brain on Facts podcast

Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro!

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