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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!

Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie

• Our SpeakPipe Feedback page! Leave us feedback :)
• The Libsyn Team at Podcast Podcast Movement! Read all about it!
• The Libsyn TeePublic store!
• Info about the #podcastersftw initiative: a collective way of supporting podcasting events and meet-ups to expand podcasting
• James’s Podnews Google Podcasts App FAQ
• Podcasts More Popular than Blogs
• Podcasts Hit The Books
• A Cult Show’s Recipe for Success: Whiskey, Twitter and Complex Women
• Tales of The Black Badge
• Rob on Readily Random

Where is Libsyn Going? (In Real Life)

• Podcast Movement 2018

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