Spotify Analytics Only Show Spotify Plays

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I don’t believe that feature is widely available anymore. If you don’t see the option to link your podcast RSS feed, it’s likely that it has been removed or is only accessible…

“a clickable link would be handy but if thats the case and they deleted this feature, you have to do it like any other person with a podcast who is using clips as a gateway to a podcast. you have to overlay text in your video with a call-to-action.”

“interesting. i was wrong. you used the word connect correctly. i never saw this feature. i have a tiktok account with 30k followers and i am monetized, and i dont see the feature on my desktop. he is saying in the video that not everyone got this feature and you should contact support (which is a pain on tiktok - but essentially you have to click through the help center till you can open a support ticket). but wow. this looks promising.”

“please show me a video that explains how to connect a tiktok clip to a podcast. because i am pretty sure you misunderstood something or you are using the word connect incorrectly”

“It's more manual than a dedicated podcast app, but the automatic download and metadata matching have been solid for the feeds I follow. Not quite set-and-forget, but close enough.”

“For people who manage ads across more than one podcast: How are you tracking host-read or baked-in ad inventory today? I mean things like: - upcoming episodes by show - pre-roll / mid-roll / post-roll availability - sold vs held vs open spots - sponsor category conflicts - copy/script approval - recorded/delivered/invoiced status - advertiser delivery reporting Is this mostly handled in spreadsheets, Airtable, a CRM, an ad server, or something else? I’m trying to understand whether this is actua”

Thank you.

Oh man, this is it. Our metrics show attempted impressions but zero client-side playback. I'm leaning towards a backend CDN cache issue or a bad endpoint config on their side, which is…

“For anyone using Megaphone and switched their campaigns to the new system, did all go smoothly or are you having issues? My campaigns aren’t playing anywhere even though Megaphone said it’s all set up correctly. I’m also getting programmatic ads on some of my episodes on Apple Podcasts and noting on Spotify (non-premium accounts). Interested to know other people’s experience. submitted by /u/Dingadingdingdong [link] [comments]”

“Curious to know if any other podcasts or networks out there are having a ton of issues with the new Megaphone update? None of our ads are running correctly! submitted by /u/General-Style6156 [link] [comments]”

“Damn, I've been posting to youtube and uploading to podbean individually. I also just switched from podbean to be able to (hopefully) upload videos to Apple. Wish I had known about this before haha.”

“That makes sense, yeah the workaround I had seen was similar, except it was make a feed just for Apple. I guess you could go either way. I did see news that by the end of the year (hopefully sooner than later) Spotify is adopting HLS to follow Apple. I'm hoping that just smoothens out all the kinks currently going on.”

“Hi, I used Podbean as well and manage several shows. I had a question about this. When I went to publish on Podbean a video podcast, it mentioned that it may mess with Spotify, since they don't do video the same way. So let's say I upload a video podcast to Podbean, how does that appear on any audio-only podcast platforms and does it fudge with Spotify in any meaningful way? Reaching out to Podbean, they said to create a new feed just for Apple Podcast video, but that sounds like an extr”

Thank you Podcast coach!

“We had issues. When this first came out I thought we’d give it a try. We are mainly an audio podcast and just got started with video for YouTube. I turned the Spotify video integration on to see how this would work. Then realized it would only let you upload either a video or mp3. Not both. At the time there was no documentation on this like what happen with apple if I upload video. Would an mp3 be generated from the video and sent to apple? I never found out. Long story short, I asked libsyn to”

“To have video on Spotify, you have to use them as a media host. Keep in mind you upload the video, and the video only goes to Spotify and then Spotify syndicates the AUDIO ONLY to the other platforms (which is why some people call Spotify "the walled garden). To make money on Spotify you need at least 3 published episodes, at least 2,000 global consumption hours in the last 30 days, and at least 1,000 unique listeners or viewers on Spotify in the last 30 days. Spotify also says creators mus”

“I run several YouTube channels in crime/ASMR niche. They bring in a lot of money and views but need to expand into Spotify, so looking for best site to use and most efficient to earn money too. I've used Anchor FM in the past, but don't remember having too much opportunity to make money. submitted by /u/No_Emu8347 [link] [comments]”

“Thanks for this. I found the media enclosures and I compared it to an episode that is working and the feeds are reading correctly. They are hosted on Megaphone and the enclosure URL shows it is pulling from Megaphone. I can't figure out why the mp3 plays on Spotify's mobile app and nowhere else. It's all of the episodes for one particular podcast that wont' play. It happened all of a sudden. I was researching it and I read it might have something to do with the episode using dyna”

“Did you pull up the new RSS feed URL in a browser to check if the episode XML is actually in there? Sometimes the 'published' status on their end just means it's in their system, not necessarily exported to the feed yet. It's a common integration hiccup.”

“Each episode in the RSS feed should have something like "<enclosure url=..." with an URL contained in it. Cmd/Ctrl+F to search the source for "enclosure" or even "mp3" (if your files are mp3) and this will help you locate the media source that the platforms are attempting yet failing to read from.”

“So I use riverside.fm and they just recently introduced a new hosting feature where you can have your RSS feed go through them and basically upload all of your stuff directly through them. I switched over today and all of my old episodes are on YouTube just fine, but my new episode that I recorded today is not appearing anywhere well after an hour of me publishing it. Im getting frustrated so I wanted to ask if anyone can think of any solutions. It says published on Riverside's end but its n”

“I've only ever seen that Apple notice if something weird happened like the media file wasn't available or got removed. Aside from Megaphone having some kind of actual technical issue, the first things I'd be curious to know about are... Are the media files all from the same source? (Like do you edit all these podcasts or is there a chance the media files for this problem client are from somewhere else and in a problematic or corrupt format?) Can you manually investigate the RSS feeds”

“I manage several podcasts for clients. I have one podcast that is not playing on Apple, iHeart, Simplecast/Pandora, Amazon. I keep getting an error on Apple- This episode is temporarily unavailable. I have others check their phones- same thing so it's not my phone. Other podcasts play just fine on Apple it's just this one. I host on Megaphone and I contact customer support. They say they are looking into it. The podcast plays on Spotify mobile app fine but won't play on Spotify desk”

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“We've done old videos from years ago and then stopped. We've had our podcast uploading automatically for the past two years we've been doing it but we never used thumbnails for it so I'm sure that destroyed our outreach. I'd like to start making my own content on the channel and I've been trying to do thumbnails but has youtube stopped bothering to do anything with us due to poor podcast performance? Will it start to push the gameplay videos after I upload enough of them?”

“I'm Canadian, but stopped listening to podcasts on Spotify this year and pretty much only listen to stuff on YouTube. A) Spotify is insanely slow and laggy these days. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with that shit app right now. Looking for podcasts just bugs the help out of me B) Spotify inserted ads - cannot be skipped with earbud control. Have to use controls on your phone. C) The high commodification of podcasts over the last few years means even more ads, and podcast companies”

“I believe Captivate is based on downloads, so might not have upload limits. Contact support, they are responsive. Here's their page about hls video https://www.captivate.fm/publish-video-podcasts-to-apple-podcasts”

“I have video podcast episodes that I want to publish on Apple Podcasts as video, not audio only. What is the best way to upload them? Do I need a video-capable podcast hosting platform and a special RSS feed? Which hosting services work properly with Apple Podcasts video? Any advice from someone who has done this successfully would be appreciated. submitted by /u/nerd1818 [link] [comments]”

“Podcast host Captivate has rolled out new "AMIE Campaign Management" for its U.S.-based accounts. Anybody using it? Are you getting good CPMs on your show? Any technical surprises? I'd like to move my show over for other Captivate features, but Captivate's new ad system is only available in the U.S. at the moment, so I'm waiting. I don't want to give up the dynamic ads I currently serve with my existing show host, so am in limbo. But, others... what do you think about i”

“Just saw this in Podnews: " Apple Podcasts Connect has been highlighting, for the last few days, that the service is “currently experiencing issues with play counts in Podcasts Analytics”. We’ve asked for more information for you. But - is the “issue” that Apple’s version of the play count is not a very useful metric? For the Podnews Weekly Review, all our episodes seem to show numbers like this - one episode claiming it’s had 60 listeners, but 367 plays. Spotify and YouTube both agree that”

“Any update for listeners to turn off AI chapters? It’s such a spoiler alert for crime shows and spooky stories”

I'm curious if anyone knows if it's paying more than spreaker.

“So, according to Edison research, YouTube is now in #1 spot for podcast delivery in the UK: https://www.edisonresearch.com/youtube-surpasses-spotify-as-uks-preferred-podcast-platform/ Now colour me skeptical, but I have my doubts about this. I wonder what definition they used for what a podcast is, as in previous studies it has been shown that YT even claimed things like news channel updates counted as a podcast. I will give them that they have made progress in recent years. But look at the fron”

probably both

Where are you getting these numbers? Thanks.

“You have to have Be hosted and uploaded through Spotify for Creators Have 10,000 streamed hours on Spotify in the last 30 days Have been streamed by 2,000 unique Spotify users in the last 30 days Have at least 12 episodes published Payouts are typically Smaller Shows (1k - 5k listeners/episode): Typically earn $250 to $900 a month. Mid-Tier Shows (5k - 10k listeners/episode): Generally make $700 to $4,000+ monthly from a combination of ads, subscriptions, and sponsorships. Top-Tier Shows (10k+ l”

“Hi gents Spotify released a new monetization program last year, and I would like to know if anyone of you have gotten the monetization so far and how much does it pay ? I want to know if it really worth it, I'm actually running faceless youtube channels and saw some nice opportunities with spotify lately. submitted by /u/BigPart5118 [link] [comments]”

“Switching from Spotify for Creators is the right call if analytics are the pain point. A few things worth knowing about the landscape before you decide: The core problem with Spotify for Creators is that it's designed around Spotify's interests, not yours. The analytics only cover what happens inside Spotify, so if 40% of your listeners are on Apple Podcasts you're completely blind to them. You also don't fully own your RSS feed in the same way you do with a dedicated host, which”

“This is way more thought-out than most podcast sites I've seen. The sticky player alone solves the biggest annoyance with show websites, you start listening then click a link and it just stops dead. Nice work.”

“Happens to us too, but to be honest I log in to apple podcasts and change it there myself these days. But normally it should be overwritten in a couple of days, it's just slower I think.”

Where would you see a shows notes?

“You can contact their support, and they'll do what they need to do on their end for it to update. I did all the suggestions and none of them worked, but support took care of it quickly.”

“apple podcasts cache is notoriously stubborn. had the same thing happen with my show and it took almost 3 months before it finally refreshed on its own. one thing that might help is going into apple podcasts connect and manually uploading the new artwork there too, sometimes that kicks it into gear faster than just waiting for their cdn to update.”

“I saw this yesterday, a massive spike. I looked at my metrics, and almost all of the downloads were from Vietnam. Definitely not people who were listening to the podcast.”

“I have been having issues with publishing video episodes directly from Libsyn to Spotify since they released the function and they are both pointing fingers at each other. Previously uploaded audio to Libsyn then added the video directly to Spotify after publishing. But now that Libsyn offers direct video publishing to Apple and Spotify I thought I’d use that. Well it isn’t publishing to Spotify. Spotify says the issue is the feed. Libsyn says the feed is right but something on Spotify isn’t res”

“People here absolutely hate Spotify for Creators, but I’ve been with them since they were Anchor and really haven’t had issues with them. Never paid a cent for distribution, and they helped monetize us and get us host reads. The ad pay on video is also around 2x what it was when we were just audio. We’re not a super big show (around 20k downloads monthly), so I’m sure there’s issues at scale I’m not aware of but I can’t really come up with a reason I would pay for distribution outside of better”

“Interesting. I think that this would be a massive change in the podcast hosting space. Captivate basically wants to double my yearly price just to send video to Apple not even Spotify.”

“That's surprisingly patronizing - I have appreciated your comments in the past, but this feels a bit dense. This is not a host problem, it's a feed-publishing problem. This actually hurts the people that DO pay Spotify for -- amongst other things -- our podcast. Further, I DO pay the company we host with (a company I have been very pleased with in my 8 years doing this) for two separate podcasts. I realize that my post was a bit ranty, but this is a real thing that is really happening an”

“you're pretty much right and it's a mess the whole podcast infrastructure was built around rss feeds for audio, video was always an afterthought. spotify and apple both want to keep you locked in their ecosystem so they make you upload directly. youtube is its own walled garden too best you can do is host the video somewhere like a website or a video host then embed it, but that centralized "upload once distribute everywhere" dream doesn't exist for video podcasts”

“I just submitted my first podcast episode and wanted to start publishing podcast clips immediately but want people to be able to follow the clips to an actual podcast. I read it can take up to a week, what have fellow RSS.com users experienced submitted by /u/MakeitEpic1623 [link] [comments]”

“Knowing my runtime is not helpful to you in any way. Everything is likely different and would be comparing apples to oranges, topics, fanbase, age, research, tangents etc. So if you're trying to find an average, don't. Make yours as long as the content requires it to be.”

“I have a story-based podcast. We do a roundtable recap where listeners can submit questions, and I also do a sit-down with our composer where we talk about his process and the music more in depth. The game system we play (Delta Green) also includes a built-in “in-between” segment called Home Scenes, which facilitates character vignettes of their “normal life” in the interim between the intense story arcs of each mission.”

“Switching platforms is usually a pretty straightforward process. Your new host should be able to import all your episodes and then provide you with a new RSS URL which you can update podcast directories (Apple, Spotify etc) so your listeners start downloading the episodes from the new host. Acast should also provide functionality where you can enter your new RSS URL and they’ll forward any requests to your new feed, so the switch happens seamlessly. Stats you will lost though, I don’t know of a”

“A “Linktree” will also put everything together, from website, YouTube, all social media platforms and Apple/Spotify etc.”

“Spotify for creators is the platform to host on. It is free and the boost that you get in visibility from hosting there will increase your downloads without you making any other changes. The answer to your second question depends on the type of podcast. Different types of podcast and different podcast goals have different growth strategies.”

“What are they ways to distribute the podcast for •venture capital podcasts • private equity firms podcasts What are proven ways to get listeners from other platforms like apple podcast,Spotify. submitted by /u/syhabrar [link] [comments]”

“i dont know if this is the right place to put this but i figured i might as well ask i have this podcast ive been saving for close to 6 years now and what they used to do is have the date as the title so it was easy for me to oragnize it by date (year/month) but like a year or so ago they stopped doing that. ive lost track of organizing and was wondering if there was anything online to help me. submitted by /u/vladthebiker22 [link] [comments]”

“I have been using one that not only has access to my episodes, but I write a twice monthly blog, host my transcripts (the AI closing captioning do NOT get it right), credit my cast with links (I'm an audio drama) and have an individual page for each episode. ALL of these extra pages help my SEO and I am always on the top of the Google search in my category. In the world of indie distribution, I see this as a way to get more ear-balls.”