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Podcasts

Automated podcast transcripts

Our platform now allows podcasters to take advantage of Google's Speech-to-Text technology to produce automated transcripts.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
1 min read
Streaming

Online archive available for live-streams

Capture your radio stream audio to cloud storage and access it anytime via our online dashboard.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
2 min read
Streaming

Current song metadata support for Zetta & Jazler

Our live streaming platform can now receive "Now Playing" song information directly from an RCS Zetta or Jazler RadioStar automation system.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
1 min read
Streaming

Fallback input available for live streams

High availability is crucial to building and retaining an online listenership. Frequent outages quickly leads to user frustration and can reduce traffic to your live stream.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
2 min read
Streaming

Automated downtime and silent alerts for live-streams

High availability is key to building a strong online listenership. Our new automated monitoring system sends email or Slack alerts when a live stream goes offline or silent.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
2 min read
Streaming

Song & ad recognition service available

Automated recognition of songs and other audio clips enables cost-effective 24x7 analysis of stream content. We have integrated a recognition service into our platform that can use acoustic fingerprint technology to track songs

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
2 min read
Advertising

Addressing brand safety through podcasting advertising

Podcast hosting providers have specifically catered for brand safety by enabling advertisers and their agencies with the capability of including or excluding channels, providers, and specific episodes.

  • Ross Sergeant
    Ross Sergeant
1 min read
Advertising

77% of podcast listeners don’t skip through ads

In digital advertising in 2018, one can’t go far before bumping in to the thorny issue of ad viewability.

  • Ross Sergeant
    Ross Sergeant
1 min read
Advertising

Significant commercial advertising revenue opportunity for podcasts

Ad revenues from podcasts grew at a compound quarterly 19% in 2017. Dynamic ad insertion offers the best model for podcast monetisation.

  • Ross Sergeant
    Ross Sergeant
2 min read
Streaming

Join a growing medium

Streaming radio and podcast listenership has grown by a massive 300% from Jan 2017 to March 2018, according to iono.fm, which hosts the lion’s share of podcasts serving listeners in South Africa.

  • Ross Sergeant
    Ross Sergeant
2 min read
Releases

Web player UI update

We've released an updated embedded web player that greatly improves the user experience for listeners.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
2 min read
Releases

Usage reports update

A visual rework of our podcast and streaming reports that includes new information along with usability features.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
1 min read
Releases

New syndication features

Listeners should be able to quickly and easily follow podcast content, on our platform or via syndication platforms like iTunes. We've deployed an update to enhance this functionality for our publishers and listeners.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
1 min read
Streaming

Updated stream usage pricing

Based on feedback from our customers, we've reduced the block size of concurrent listeners we invoice for from 500 to 100.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
1 min read
Releases

New podcast features

We're proud to announce one of our largest feature updates yet. Besides a refreshed look for our entire site, this release focusses on an enhanced experience for our podcast publishers.

  • Leon Nortje
    Leon Nortje
2 min read
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