Todd and Mike talk about podcasting events, including some canceled ones, the results of our Nominate Your Favorite Woman Podcaster contest, and it's a COVID-19 world, be diligent and safe stay out there folks!
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This week on Podcast Insider…
Podcasting News:
NABshow has been canceled due to COVID-19. Multiple other events, such as SXSW, have been canceled and schools and offices are moving to remote working.
Google Play Music Podcasts is no longer taking submissions! Well, we think so. It looks like the submission link is dead. This will make our friend James Cridland of Podnews very happy.
Podcasting can be good for your mental health! Tell us something we don’t know.
She Podcasts Live - year two will be held in Scottsdale, AZ October 15-18. We’ll be there!
COVID-19 What You Need to Know, a new podcast from ABC News. This is now a daily podcast and can keep you up to date.
The Ron Burgundy Podcast is back (season 3) and will be having a live show in San Diego on March 17. Tickets are available here and currently range from $36-$119.
Best Practice:
Episode Artwork, revisited: Mike tested various ways you can use episode level artwork for your show; this is explained in Podcast Help Desk Episode 130. But, bottom line, RSS level image and a featured image appear to be the most used. The ID3 tag image, not so much. Is it worth worrying about?
Blubrry News:
The Blubrry team will likely be remote working starting next week.
Want to tell your story on this podcast? We’ll schedule an interview with someone on the team. Email one of us!
Mike@blubrry.com
Todd@blubrry.com
MacKenzie@blubrry.com
Alie Ward, of the podcast Ologies was the winner of our Nominate Your Favorite Woman Podcaster contest! Congrats, and based on the number of submissions we received and that it is women's month, we’ll be reaching out to some of the other women.
Interview:
Anibal Ruiz - Non-Profit Luminaries
Support:
Non HTTPS media files no longer play in Google Chrome browsers starting this summer. Make sure you’re hosting your files on an HTTPS server, such as Blubrry.
How to put an episode level image in your feed in PowerPress using the new Podcast Episode box.
Category podcasting creates a feed unique to the category used. As a completely separate show. The main feed from WordPress and PowerPress will contain ALL podcast episodes no matter which category you post them to.
Shawns Tip of the Week: Network mode in PowerPress
Contact Anibal Ruiz here...
Email on his site
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