We have some awesome Libsyn-centric things to tell you about, so I’m gonna get right to it:

FIRST: we had some strange happenings while recording and there is a weird thing that happened to my audio where I turned into a robot? Strange. Had to leave it in because it was ON MY LOCAL COPY! …and some cellphone feedback. BAH.

In this episode expect to hear all about our new Embedly support (which you can see right at the top of this post!) and a mobile responsive update to our standard, mini and legacy players, press releases for podcasters, the LUFS discussion continues, the new Twitter updates impacting marketing your podcast, the 1.5 speed debate, pretty headphones, advertising on Spotify, podcasting updates for Android, geographic and user agent stats, plus oh, much much more!

Below you can check out a couple of the questions that we got and answer on the show!

Hi Rob and Elsie

Thank you so much for this. We all (me, my wife and 2 boys) love playing with the Echo Dot I won at podfest — although I have to convince my 6 and 4 yr olds that its unnecessary to get right up over Alexa and yell at her…

Also, since Podfest, my podcast numbers have been increasing (which I’m sure you can see) — I almost hit 1,500 downloads in February (a short month) and I’m on pace for 2,000 downloads in March !!

I do have a question so that I can better understand and better promote the Alexa Skill. About 3 weeks ago, I asked Alexa to play my podcast (“Alexa, play the Crushing Debt Podcast”) and she found it on Tunein. If she can already find the podcast on Tunein, then what is the purpose or benefit of the Skill? Does the Skill make the show easier to find? I haven’t asked Alexa since I got your email, I’ll ask her today, but assuming she plays the podcast, will she be pulling it from the Skill or from Tunein, or does it matter as long as she’s pulling it from somewhere?

Thanks again !! I really appreciate everything and will do my best to promote the Skill, the show, and Libsyn — anyone I meet who wants to start a podcast gets sent to Libsyn.

Regards,

Shawn

Hi Rob and Elsie

Hey, you probably explained this, but Alexa is a bit different way to consume a podcast. Does it show up as download? Spotify has its own category, but if someone says “Alexa play America Adapts” or whatever they say, when it downloads, will that count as a single download we can track in stats? you probably already explained this.

Regards,

Doug from America Adapts Podcast.

If you’re looking for some answers or some more podcasting industry insight, especially the latest podcasting geographic and technology data for February 2018, you must listen to the show!

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