View Full Version : APPLE PUT ME IN TOP 100 NOW IT COST ME HUNDREDS
bobbyshakes
Jan 29th, 2006, 04:40 PM
Acccording to Feedburner we have 3,000 people subcribed plus a ton of people downloading from my blog and not subscribing to Itunes. What should be my next step cause i can't afford the bandwidth.
TINKOFF RADIO
Jan 29th, 2006, 05:02 PM
Welcome to the club. Have you considered moving to Libsyn?
- or the alternative of taking down some of your older shows...
- or increasing the compression on your older shows to reduce bandwidth reqs.
Enjoy the popularity while it lasts and consider the value of having people that find your show a worthy investment of their time. Congrats on the stats and it could be worse...
ElNacho
Jan 29th, 2006, 07:31 PM
bascially, just get one or another unmetered bandwith hosts, prob switchpod (http://www.switchpod.com), to host ur shows
ElNacho
Jan 29th, 2006, 08:16 PM
you know...
Being in the top 100 hasn't given me that much more popularity
Nor does the staff "put" you there. Your listeners did. Be happy, stay koo, don't blame iTunes.
wait i dont even get the title compared with the first post agh okay ferget it just get switchpod (http://www.switchpod.com/) or somethin like it
rwalch
Jan 30th, 2006, 12:56 AM
Apple did not put you in the top 100, you did.
The Top 100 is the top 100 most subscribed to podcasts in the past 96 to 120 hours.
If Apple had featured your podcast on the main podcast page that would be a different story.
bobbyshakes
Jan 30th, 2006, 06:15 AM
WITH LIBSYNC I WILL BE ABLE TO PUSH THE ENEVLOPE EVEN MORE.
bobbyshakes
Jan 30th, 2006, 06:17 AM
THANK YOU ITUNES AND THANKS TO PODCAST ALLEY MEMBERS FOR GIVING ME THE HEADS UP.
womengrow
Jan 30th, 2006, 06:40 PM
Take a look at Rob's tutotial on Podcast411 for redirecting the RSS feed through feedburner (or in your case libsyn) - http://www.podcast411.com/tut_feedburner.html
That way, you should be able keep your RSS feed and take advantage of the new bandwidth at the same time. You won't lose your subscribers by changing your RSS feed.
Congratulations on your great stats!
bobbyshakes
Jan 31st, 2006, 06:40 AM
thanks women. you guys and women are very helpfulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly
el
Jan 31st, 2006, 06:48 AM
What's your show called?
podcastrant.com
Jan 31st, 2006, 07:04 AM
In another post he said it was Reggaecast
el
Jan 31st, 2006, 07:11 AM
Yeah, I found that. It's funny, I'm used to people pimping their show as much as they can ;)
bobbyshakes
Jan 31st, 2006, 08:38 AM
Hey EL, you got to pimp the hell out of your show. just remember pimping aint easy!
p.s EL what do you think about the show!
discoverpodcasts.com
Feb 2nd, 2006, 10:47 PM
Shakes, if you have any newer Supercat I know about 100 folks on the Supercat mailing list will subscribe.
bobbyshakes
Feb 3rd, 2006, 12:21 PM
DAM no Super Cat. But i would love to have them a board!! Pretty please with ganja on top.
bobbyshakes
Feb 3rd, 2006, 12:25 PM
Just checked out your website. that is the next best thing next to Itunes. i hate reading and searching so i really dig pictures.
mapleheavy
Feb 5th, 2006, 01:58 PM
WITH LIBSYNC I WILL BE ABLE TO PUSH THE ENEVLOPE EVEN MORE.
Seriously?
ElNacho
Feb 5th, 2006, 02:11 PM
taylor ram****er, ahahaha, ill never get o''er that
Steve Pinder
Feb 7th, 2006, 02:34 PM
Am I missing something here. Wasn't this thread supossed to be about something else.
Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com
KHPR
Oct 24th, 2006, 10:50 AM
Getting into iTunes has meant EVERYTHING to one of my podcasts. Let's Get Naughty jumped onto the Hot 100 of Comedy in the 3 show and by the 4 show it's been in the top 25 and remained there. 98% of our listeners come from iTunes and we're currently averaging almost 9000 listeners per show. Most of the podcasters I've talked too have noticed that the majority of hits have been coming from iTunes and I would highly suggest you use Libsyn if you're starting to get popular. We had to switch over to libsyn in the 3rd week and we were still getting close to 30Gb's of bandwidth on our site that was just webpages.
Eric
skateconroy
Apr 23rd, 2007, 09:55 AM
iTunes has featured my podcast for the past six weeks as a banner ad on the front page of the Australian iTunes podcast directory. My podcast has fluctuated into the top 100 podcasts overall. It has been a number of weeks in the top ten and never leaves the top 50 news and politics podcasts. i have been in the 'new and notable' section for weeks. But, I have no idea how many subscribers I have through them. I use feedburner, but it just gives me rss feeds from non-iTunes sites. How can I get the data from iTunes?
Namaste,
Kate