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 [email protected], 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 been working around the clock to get the issues cleaned up! Getting a new Apple ID to log into Apple Podcasts Connect A service for your listeners to get your podcast delivered via email - it’s called Blogtrottr 14:44 What do you need to know about podcasting privacy? Audio feedback from Stacy Shout-out to Voicelink.fm Started publishing episodes 2 times a week and podcast downloads went down by a lot - help? 25:30 PROMO 2: Legends From The Pacific How to get your show promoted on the Amazon Music service! Elsie and Rob might turn on your Alexa as they talk through asking Alexa to play a podcast How to figure out how many plays or downloads are coming from the Libsyn player on the website 33:47 Does libsyn also offer website hosting? Audio feedback from Chaplain Jared Spotify adds timestamped podcast sharing! 41:27 A bit of music in podcasting history - audio feedback from Jason Sometimes seasons make podcast episodes disappear Best tweet of the week! Worst email of the week 54:10 PROMO 3: Louisville Cycling Podcast Stats! Geographic and user agent Where have we been? In A Few Minutes and Podcasting for Coaches Where are we going? We Are Podcasts, Libsyn Meet-up and Libsyn Webinars Featured Podcast Promos + Audio PROMO 1: Your Brain On Facts PROMO 2: Legends From The Pacific PROMO 3: Louisville Cycling Podcast Stacy from Diabetes Connection Chaplain Jared from The Christian Meditation Podcast Jason from from Radio BSOTS Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro! Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie Leave us voice feedback! Audacity has been acquired by Muse Group, which also owns MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar Blogtrottr Voicelink.fm Amazon Music Podcasts Listen On Amazon Music Buttons Spotify adds timestamped podcast sharing and other social features CC Mixter Best tweet of the week from And Now We Drink Rob on Ken Ray’s In A Few Minutes 107: Getting to Know Libsyn 5 and Glow.fm with Elsie Escobar - from Podcasting For Coaches Libsyn 5 Update! Webinar Podcast Episode Notes Deep Dive Meet-up DEI For Podcasters Audience Value and Growth 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 PROMOTION ON THE SHOW You can ask your questions, make comments and create a segment about podcasting for podcasters! Let your voice be heard. Download The Feed App for iOS and Android Call 412–573–1934 Email [email protected] Use our Speakpipe Page