Acast spam, spam multiple platform updates, spam, Gumball, spam, Websub, spam but no chapters, no transcriptions just lightning comments.

MONTY PYTHON: Spam Sketch

SPECIAL GUEST:

Marty Michael - CEO & Co-Founder Gumball 



Gumball has raised $10 million to expand its podcasting
host-read advertising platform. The company was built by
the team behind the Headgum Podcast Network. 



NEWS: 


Podcast host Acast is still spamming podcasters, even
co-founders of rival podcast networks, or hosts of shows
that ended three years ago. Libsyn's Rob Walch correctly
notes "Friends don't send emails starting 'hello friend' (as
Acast's do), and they don't spam". 


Hypocritically, Acast actually offers its customers a tool
to obfuscate your email address in your RSS feed, so that it
will "help our podcasters avoid unwanted spam". It's a problem
the company is more than aware of, then. "Email marketing is one
part of our marketing strategy", said Ross Adams, the company's
CEO, when we last asked.



Oscar Merry has suggested Lightning Comments as a
potential solution for cross-app commenting: using
"boostagrams" as a method of sending comments. We like this
idea; and the spec is simple enough for us to code it; so,
you'll find a "comments" section on every update in
Podnews's web version. You can also see those comments in
the Fountain app.


Podnews are also, as of today, permanently supporting the
socialInteract tag for Twitter (and will probably pull in those
comments to the page, too, at some stage). 


A new version is up: 1.0.0-beta. This release comes with bug
fixes and an exciting feature: WebSub! From now on, Castopod will
push your newly published episodes directly to open subscription
hubs, meaning that they will get broadcasted instantly after
publication.


A gateway from WebSub to PodPing. WebSub.watch allows any
WebSub-enabled podcast to push notificat



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