This week's report card: ACast very bad, GoodPods bad, ActivityPub very good and Super Listener Wayne Cheong dies, very sad.

GUEST:


John Spurlock talking about implementing
ActivityPub/Co-Comments  



LINKS: 


https://podcastsocial.org

https://minipub.dev/



NEWS: 


Anyone can claim to be a creator of any podcast within the
GoodPods app, without any proof or validation, we’ve
discovered. 


Acast has been been “spamming podcasters”, says competitor
Buzzsprout, which has published an unsolicited email from Acast
sent to many of Buzzsprout’s customers; we’re aware they’ve also
been sent to Anchor users too. 


“Email marketing is one part of our marketing strategy as we
look to bring even more great creators to Acast, and we’re
focused on providing the best possible tools and services to help
them reach their potential.” — Ross Adams, CEO, Acast


How should apps best verify ownership?  Fountain asks
for the email held in the RSS file to claim podcast? 



Proposed Solution by James Cridland.  Is there a better,
easier way to help podcasters “claim” their podcast on different
apps? Currently, that process is a clunky method of hoping
someone has access to the email address in the RSS feed, and then
sending them an email. We think there might be something rather
easier. Here’s some proposed documentation of how it might
work.


WebFinger is a protocol specified by the Internet Engineering
Task Force IETF that allows for the discovery of information
about people and things identified by a URI. 


Edison Research released their Super Listeners study, with Ad
Results Media. “Super listeners” - US adults who listen to 5+
hours of podcasts a week.


Responding to Spotify purchasing Podsights and Chartable,
Bryan Barletta writes this week in Sounds Profitable that
“Grading your own homework isn’t third-party
measurement,” 




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