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www.economist.com www.economist.com
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Last month Apple announced that it would let podcasters charge subscription fees, of which it would take a 30% cut for the first year, then dropping to 15%; days later Spotify followed suit—but said creators could keep the lot (from 2023 it will take 5%).
Good to see some of these platforms competing for creators this way. The big question is will the creators really "own" their audiences? or will they just be stuck in a silo in a few years with prices rising?
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- Apr 2021
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nathangathright.com nathangathright.com
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Just the sort of draconian silo activity you'd imagine that Apple would be doing.
So much for their free and open directory as their position in the space.
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mignano.medium.com mignano.medium.com
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Thus, the creative freedom of creators is limited.
And thus draconian methods for making the distribution unnecessarily complicated, siloed, surveillance capitalized, and over-monitized beyond all comprehension are beyond the reach of one or two for profit companies who want to own the entire market like monopolistic giants are similarly limited. (But let's just stick with the creators we're pretending to champion, shall we?)
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In the coming months and years, we’ll be working to further enable choice for creators, including giving them the power to choose not only how someone wants to create or monetize audio, but also where specific content is able to be consumed, ensuring creators have an opportunity to decide if they are aligned with the platforms distributing their content.
So this means you're going to use simple, open standards and tooling so that not only Anchor and Spotify will benefit? Or are you going to build closed systems that require the use of proprietary software and thus force subscriptions? Are you going to Balkanize the audio space to force consumers into your product and only your product? Or will producers be able to have a broad selection of platforms to which they could distribute their content?
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- Mar 2021
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github.com github.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks</span> in Kevin Marks on Twitter: "@doctorow The podle app by @AdaRoseCannon could be a good starting point https://t.co/q9Y8DEVbfG" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>03/15/2021 14:41:41</time>)</cite></small>
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- Feb 2021
- Mar 2020
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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Pocket Casts is instead committed to podcasting’s open ecosystem of freely available RSS feeds, CEO Owen Grover says.
I wish their app allowed one to actually use the podcast's native URL(s) when sharing instead of providing a pca.st shortened URL.
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- Feb 2020
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mattstoller.substack.com mattstoller.substack.com
- Dec 2019
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bavatuesdays.com bavatuesdays.com
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One of the questions that came up during the SPLOT workshop is if there’s a SPLOT for podcasting, which reminded me of this post Adam Croom wrote a while back about his podcasting workflow: “My Podcasting Workflow with Amazon S3.” . We’re always on the look-out for new SPLOTs to bring to the Reclaim masses, and it would be cool to have an example that moves beyond WordPress just to make the point a SPLOT is not limited to WordPress (as much as we love it) —so maybe Adam and I can get the band back together
I just outlined a tiny and relatively minimal/free way to host and create a podcast feed last night: https://boffosocko.com/2019/12/17/55761877/
I wonder if this could be used to create a SPLOT that isn't WordPress based potentially using APIs from the Internet Archive and Huffduffer? WordPress-based infrastructure could be used to create it certainly and aggregation could be done around tags. It looks like the Huffduffer username SPLOT is available.
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- Oct 2018
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www.projectinfolit.org www.projectinfolit.org
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Some students (28%) received news from podcasts in the preceding week.
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- Nov 2017
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datascience.codata.org datascience.codata.org
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open standard Media Fragment Identifier (MFID)
also used by https://podlove.org/deep-link/ :-)
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- Jun 2016
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marco.org marco.org
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Don’t let proprietary podcast platforms convince you that we need them.
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- Dec 2015
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Huge follower counts on YouTube and social media DO NOT easily translate to income. And those followers expect you to be "real" -- so they are hostile to advertising and sponsored content.
Do you own a business? It might pay to offer a salary to the producers of a YouTube channel that reaches your target audience -- in exchange for low-profile "brought to you by" links and mentions that won't offend that audience.
https://twitter.com/JBUshow<br> https://twitter.com/gabydunn
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