Comments on: Should podcasters use an itpc or a phobos address?

By: Sylvain Grand'Maison

Sylvain Grand'Maison — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:36:08 +0000

What do you mean by restrict? Restrict accessibility?

By: Knut Midtveit

Knut Midtveit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:30:54 +0000

Question, How do I restrict podcasts on Itunes.

By: Sylvain Grand'Maison

Sylvain Grand'Maison — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:57:10 +0000

@Stéphane Prochain podcast probablement cette semaine. Ce n’est pas l’autre podcast qui me prends du temps, ce sont les projets pour mes clients.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:49:39 +0000

En passant, je confirme que c’est arrive a quelques reprises d’avoir utilisé les fonctions du ipod/iPhone pour essayer de nouveaux podcast ou de téléchargé des nouveaux épisodes quand je suis sur la route. Donc être sur itunes ne fait vraiment pas mal aux podcasters. Juste avec un lien RSS je devrais attendre a la maison et prendre du retard sur mon écoute.

By: Stéphane

Stéphane — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:33:12 +0000

In another life when I was pretending that I was a podcaster I did both. Itpc work fine on a website and you are also registered on iTunes, win win

When is your next podcast. Feel like my iTunes didn’t get much from your end lately. To busy with the mac show?

By: Sylvain Grand'Maison

Sylvain Grand'Maison — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:47:26 +0000

Self-RT: Should podcasters use an itpc or a phobos address? http://twurl.nl/25hoxo

By: Sylvain Grand'Maison

Sylvain Grand'Maison — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:28:55 +0000

By default, a podcast publishing platform always produce an RSS feed but I agree that sometimes the link is less than easy to find. No matter if we choose itpc or phobos for the iTunes subscription, the original RSS feed should always be there.

By: Éric Noël

Éric Noël — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:21:52 +0000

I think just add a phobos or a ltpc link could be an error. Podcaster shoul always also put a direct link to the podcast feed. I dont have itunes (not a choice) and i hate when i could not find a non-itunes feed link when i try to subscribe to some stuff.

By: Sylvain Grand'Maison

Sylvain Grand'Maison — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:01:46 +0000

Thanks Yann,
The good thing with your video show is that you have an iPhone version of the site and iPhone-compatible videos, so even if you use the itpc address, you still get the viewers.

Don’t underestimate your chances to be featured in iTunes directory. I’ve been there a couple of times in the past and others like the Canadian Podcast Buffet. But you’re right, itpc don’t share any information with iTunes as the software is used as a plain aggregator.

Thanks for the link, very helpful for the vidcasters!

By: Yan

Yan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:49:24 +0000

Great post!!!

For all of my podcasts I’ve had this existential question.

I’m using both. Don’t know if this helps me or not. All the links I promote are the ITPC trick you just gave and a pur Feedburner RSS HTTP address for those who don’t use iTunes.

I did submit my podcast to the iTunes directory so my guess is that poeple who finds my podcast in iTunes will use the apple link and the others will use the ITPC link.

The problem with this method is, i guess, that I’m splitting up my visitors and therefore probably splitting up my chances to be listed in the Most Popular or Top Podcasts sections. I suspect Apple to compile only their proprietary link. But really, what were my chances anyway… LOLL

BTW.: This might be a little off topic but for those of you who wants to turn a Youtube Channel or Youtube playlist into a simple mp4 video podcast, check this out: http://www.rsshandler.com/converter . Very handy.