Spotify Analytics Only Show Spotify Plays

“looking for a downloader for a podcast in spotify. Some episodes have Video in it. I want to download them offline so that I can play them in my macbook offline mode when I'm in flight. submitted by /u/International-Table1 [link] [comments]”

“IAB measurement standards for podcasts. Last time I looked Spotify was not certified to the latest version. [re: Anyone tried Spotify for Creators partners program?]”

“We're also hosting with Libsyn, but haven't noticed any delays in publishing episodes or issues with availability so far. We did experience gaps in their statistics collection a while back, and those missing numbers still don't seem to have been recovered. We ended up adding an independent external statistics tracker to get a more complete picture of our downloads. So no delivery issues on our end, but the statistics haven't been entirely reliable. [re: Anyone else experiencing i”

“Same thing happening here since last week, episodes taking forever to show up in Spotify and support just sends a automated reply. Considering moving to different host but the thought of migrating 3 years of archives is giving me headache. [re: Anyone else experiencing issues with Libsyn recently?]”

“Hi! I’ve been hosting my podcast with Libsyn for a few years, and they’ve been reliable up until recently. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had delayed releases, and their email support has been slow to respond. Does anyone know what’s going on? Is it time to switch hosts? submitted by /u/KeunKeun [link] [comments]”

“On analytics, any of the three will do. They all show downloads per episode and countries. IAB certification only matters when sponsors ask for it. I'd add Ausha to your list. People find book podcasts by typing an author or a title into Apple Podcasts or Spotify search. Ausha has a tool called PSO (podcast search optimization, basically SEO inside those apps). It tracks which keywords your show ranks for and helps you fix your titles and descriptions. It also manages several shows from one”

“Switched over maybe six months ago, analytics are better than what i had with my old host. You get more data on listener behavior, like exactly when people drop off episodes. The money part is slow unless you got decent numbers already. For small podcasters its maybe few dollars per month from the automated ads. Distribution works fine across platforms, never had issues with that. Switching wasnt too bad, they have import tool that pulls everything from buzzsprout. Took me like an afternoon tota”

“This may just be regular spotify for creators and partners program are much better supported, but I don't think the analytics on spotify are great (or its support for things like transcripts). If you're set up somewhere else and happy with them, I'd probably not consider changing to spotify. [re: Anyone tried Spotify for Creators partners program?]”

“Hi everyone. I host my podcast on Spotify and has been distributing to YouTube music via RSS for the last 55+ episodes. I started having issues with today's episode and there is absolutely no one on the YouTube side who can help. Spotify says they don't see any issues on their end, and I see that the episode is distributed fine on other platforms like Apple Podcasts. I did get an email from YouTube over the weekend saying this. But I don't even have anything else to go by to troubles”

“this is basically just an rss feed problem, most hosting platforms solve it already. i host on riverside and it publishes to spotify, apple podcasts and youtube from one upload, no manual rss pasting needed. probably overkill if all you want is distribution though, something like spotify for creators will do the same job for free. [re: Should I use Podcastle or are there better options]”

“Q: Why not use Spotify for Creators? It's free, and you can get an RSS feed that distributes to all platforms when you publish each episode. [re: Podcasting for grassroots non profit org RSS.com vs Substack]”

“My RSS feed on YT hasn't downloaded my latest episode but all other sites (Podbean, Apple etc) have downloaded it okay. Any ideas how to fix? submitted by /u/horrorguyuk [link] [comments]”

“When you upload episode, you manualy choose what type of access you want. I've never had this problem, contact support, they are really responsive from my experience. [re: Spotify for Creators Bug: Subscriptions greyed out, last 3 episodes locked behind paywall (0 views) Help!]”

“Very helpful. Thank you so much [re: Anyone else seeing major Apple Podcasts search ranking changes lately?]”

“Hmmm, can you give me a little more insight on how you upload your ad-free episode directly onto Patreon? I can't find the option for doing this on the Patreon dashboard. I host with Libsyn as well. Thanks! [re: Ad-free feed on Patreon, how?]”

“I'm using AudioBookshelf for both audiobooks and podcasts. I'm a "local first" guy and have always used a podcatcher to download my podcasts directly onto my iPhone. I'd love it if Audiobooth could detect when AudiobookShelf pulls down a new podcast and then downloads it local onto my iPhone, so when I wake up in the morning, my Podcasts are just ready to go. If AudioBooth can't do that, then perhaps some way to do it via Siri Shortcuts?”

“Hey all, really need some help here. Please respond if anyone has encountered (and solved) this bug in Spotify for Creators. Two days ago I enabled Subscriptions on my account so I could offer early access and ad-free listening to my subscribers. I never clicked any options to restrict my regular, public episodes. However when I uploaded my next episode it automatically received the "Subscriber-Only" lock icon from Spotify. Realizing it received 0 views because it was locked from the p”

“I'm trying to figure out whether this is isolated to my show or if others have noticed something similar. I have an established travel podcast that's been on Apple for 8+ years. Using a third-party keyword tracker, my show consistently ranked around #1–4 in the U.S. for an important broad keyword through August and September 14. By September 21 it had suddenly fallen to around #33, and now the tracker isn't showing it ranked for that term. Searching this term manually confirms this.”

“UPDATE: I figured it out. It was a CORS issue such that the website code cannot pull the transcript from the podcast host URL. That’s a security problem. You need a proxy. So what I had to do was create a function that ran on my website host. That function pulled the transcript from the RSS feed such that there is now a URL on my website host for the transcript. Then it’s a simple matter of having my website format that information for the episode page. I host my podcast through Captivate and my”

“I'd keep one row per episode and compare each at the same age, such as seven days after release. Record the source and time window beside every number. Don't add platform 'listeners' together as a unique audience count, since the same person can listen in more than one app. Plays, downloads and followers also answer different questions, so they won't necessarily reconcile. At one week old, a simple weekly snapshot and a few specific listener comments should be more useful tha”

“Nice tool you got here. I'm currently using ytdl sub. I would like to switch to this but I was wondering if theres a way that I can just add multiple channels/playlists instead of 1 by 1. I got hundreds of channels on hand so its not easy to add each of them”

“Crazy that they bake the "public episode" thing in — have you tried contacting them about it? They've been pretty responsive about other issues. I'm not sure that they get anything out of forcing that in there that'd make them opposed to taking it out if enough people complained? Curious how you've found hosting with them otherwise? The simplicity of having it bundled in with a newsletter is attractive, I've just been holding off until it feels like they're on p”

“The "This is a public episode" thing is baked into their RSS output and there's no clean way to strip it without breaking their terms or running a proxy in front of the feed, which gets messy fast. If the written posts and inbox delivery matter more than the annoyance, staying put isn't crazy. Migrating means either accepting a gap in your feed or doing a redirect dance that most platforms handle poorly. [re: Substack vs. somewhere else for podcast creation?]”

“Apple's own audio requirements page says that for RSS feeds, Apple Podcasts accepts MP3 or AAC, and Opus isn't mentioned anywhere on it. Even if iOS can play Opus, that's separate from what the Podcasts directory takes in a feed. I'd encode the feed episodes as AAC or MP3. https://podcasters.apple.com/support/893-audio-requirements”

“The podtube.me is working properly for me. There is some noise when Youtube change its platform, but ends-up fixed. Yes, rules changed and it is no longer fully free, but a free tier still is available, and there are very affordable paid tiers as well.”

Thank you! this tool is the correct.

“I have been promoting my show a lot more lately, but before I take a victory lap… I want to make sure that these downloads are legit and not a bot spike. RSS. Com filters out bots, but it says some might get through. submitted by /u/PersonalityKooky6098 [link] [comments]”

“If you are still answering, for me it's i guess learning what kind of account/business I need to set up and how/where do I stream it? I was thought you just make an account on like Spotify and other places and just submit it. Podcasting could be that way, and I am overthunking the process. Its a recent development on this journey, and I seems complex.”

“Has anyone compared the previously mentioned services with Captivate? That’s the only one I’ve used. We’ve been doing programmatic ads which is zero work on my end with a payout of about $6.65 CPM before their 25% cut. Does anybody have some hard numbers for the other services?”

“But how do I stay on rss.com since it has to be by mail but I’ve been days and they don’t answer my email or how do I contact someone from RSS.com”

“Hello, I’m currently hosted on Spotify creators and I’m looking for a hosting platform where I can monetize and earn well. I’m thinking of staying at RSS.com. I feel that it’s good because of the comments but I want the community to recommend me where I can stay? submitted by /u/General-Ad9906 [link] [comments]”

“Usually, there's a share button underneath the video player where you can copy a link. If you use that link, and someone clicks through to it, the video should start at the beginning instead of at some point in the middle of the video. (Disclosure: I work with the Blubrry support team.)”

yep that timestamp parameter at the end is almost always the culprit

“Spotify is a decent free solution for this. It auto-publish audio episodes to your YT-channel after you registered the RSS-feed. It worked well for the most part for us, though some episodes turned into private for some reasons. I would also add that the listens on YouTube was REALLY low compared to other podcast apps, so it's clear that real video is still the way to go on YouTube. We recently switched to Acast to run ads, and yes it's such a bummer with all the restrictions. But we do”

“Like others have said, you're copying the wrong link. others have said how and why so here it is visually. youtube .com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ vs. youtube .com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ& t=104s”

“Can someone tell me why sometimes — and only sometimes — the link to my podcast on YouTube starts in the MIDDLE of the video? I've tried to fix this six ways from Sunday and I am defeated. I'd like to know both how to prevent it and how to fix it (that is, generate a new link). It's crazy making. submitted by /u/massksco [link] [comments]”

“There are lots of apps that pull from Apple, Overcast is one of them see https://overcast.fm/podcasterinfo most popular apps like Pocketcasts, Amazon, etc have ways to submit. You mentioned Captivate, they have a "Distribute" option on the left that makes it easy to submit your show. For me, I will list my show everywhere that takes an RSS. It takes 10 seconds, and it works for as long as your feed is valid. Moderator Required full disclosure: I am the head of Podcasting at Podpage and”

Thank you

“Overcast I believe uses their own crawlers and servers that are feeding from Apple. What's the podcast name? I will search it in the app I made that directly queries Apple's feed.”

“Your hosting platform probably has a distribution page that shows which directories its submitted to and the status of each one. Worth checking that first. Beyond apple theres usually one or two others that need manual submission but most apps just pull from your RSS directly”

“And you would prefer the lovely people at Buzzsprout (who are providing you the hosting service so your podcast can be out there on all the platforms) are supposed to visit a soup kitchen instead of charging money for their work?”

“Have you started posting video via your host? I noticed that video episodes have materially lower downloads - even after adjusting for Spotify..”

“Does rss.com keep your podcasts for free? As in there’s no time limit before they delete your eps?”

“I don’t know why others are warning about Spotify, but for me, I would warn against them because I hosted with them for years, starting when they were Anchor. They were great until Spotify bought them, and trashed it. They took away my monetization, and made getting it back next to impossible. The final straw was mid-2025 I started getting tons of false copyright claims. Some were on free music from Kevin at incompetech.com, and he’d been trying to stop Spotify from flagging his music, but they”

What’s wrong with Spotify?

“Why do you recommend to stay away from Spotify?”

“Everything I'm seeing so far seems to indicate that we're going to need to move from Acast. It's a shame, because I like their interface (it is so much better than Spotify's that I use for a different pod), but this RSS jank is looking like a deal-breaker.”

“acast is so frustrating with their rss locks, had similar problem but with spotify not youtube maybe you can use something like rss.com as middle man, just forward the feed from there but i'm not sure if youtube will detect the original source anyway”

“Thanks for the heads up! Wonder how long that's been busted. Got the new one up.”

“I tried to click on your YouTube link, but the link is broken, needs refreshing. That happened to us as well.”

“Missing the final checkbox between “draft” and “published” happened to me last week. Luckily /s I was still awake at 12:15 wondering where my ep was, went to my platform I publish from, and even though everything in there was done, including scheduled correctly, didn’t hit that one tiny thing, and no episode. And you’re right, so much copy/paste 😂”

“Yes, wow. Sorry that happened then! Hopefully Adobe makes it right. Recording on a laptop there are very few excuses for poor performance!”

“I’m researching podcast production workflows and trying to understand this part before assuming there’s a problem worth solving. For people publishing weekly or biweekly, think about your most recent episode . Once the actual editing was finished, what still had to happen before everything was live? Things like uploading, titles/descriptions, show notes, chapters, thumbnails, scheduling, website updates, YouTube, QA, social posts, etc. I’m especially curious: Who handled all of that? What parts”

“Megaphone says there is an issue and they’re looking into it, by the looks of things https://status.megaphone.fm/incidents/9w16x46p3c37 Disclosure: I write Podnews”

“all three of us were using laptops. I have 11 other successful podcast recordings of a similar length, or longer with the UK guest + 1 other person.”

“Estou ponderando fazer meu podcast com video semanal com Riverside... se eu publicar meus conteúdos com Riverside no YT, Spotify, Apple etc e depois de um tempo precisar cancelar minha subscription, perco o controle e monetização dos conteúdos ou eles ficam atrelados ao meu canal e não ao Riverside? Obrigada!”

“The files are hosted on archive.org and still playable on there. I’ve never heard of Apple Podcast Connect. I guess that’s their new system. Maybe that’s why they’re not connecting anymore? I don’t remember how to edit rss feeds anymore. But I’ll do some googling.”

“The spinning in Apple Podcasts almost always means the feed still exists but the audio URLs inside it point to an old host that's gone. Apple caches the feed, so it looks alive while every file 404s. What I'd do: upload the files to any current host (a lot have free tiers), then log into Apple Podcasts Connect with the Apple ID you used back then and change the feed URL to the new one. If you can still edit the old feed, add an itunes:new-feed-url tag pointing to the new feed too, so any”

What file type are they exported as?