Official Podcast Reviews and Standards Guide

[dsellers2007]

There appears to be a need for a blog and podcast dedicated to reviewing and promoting standards within the industry. Check out "That Podcasting Show" which reviews each show on a scale of 1 to 5 stars in the areas of content, delivery, production value, and audio quality. Daniel and Jana Sellers are the hosts that guide audiences to shows that shine and around those that need more improvement. We are not only the judges of podcasts. We have our own shows and understand the hard work and frustrations that go into producing a quality podcast.

We need everyone's help to give us feedback since we blog and produce a podcast about three new podcasts per week.

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[WyethDigital]

Dude, seriously!

This forum spamming is getting really obnoxious! I hope you put more thought into reviewing and producing your shows than you did here! You need to to look into forum etiquette because your ignorance is showing!

Here's a tip: Plug your show once, and in the appropriate forum. That would be the New Show Announcements forum, just for the record. I know you've seen it, because you already posted a plug in there!

If you want your forum posting to be useful for your show, then come up with a signature line and join discussions for the sake of the discussion! If people like what they see, they'll check out the links in your sig line. What you're doing now is only going to piss more people off, and cause you a huge loss of credibility -- which I would think is detrimental to the mission of your podcast.

Eric

[Rasheed]

Chill out, dude! Only a few people are going to read the PCA forums. This is perhaps the stupidest place to advertise, because of low traffic. Maybe you'll get some Google juice, but that's about it.

To the topic starter: How did you come to the conclusion that there is a need for "a blog and podcast dedicated to reviewing and promoting standards within the industry"? Is that a gut feeling, or have you done some research? If you have done the latter, I'm interested in it. Can you post it somewhere?

[EndGamePR]

Okay ... ignore my statement about you guys being hard on the poster. I didn't see that he'd posted in two different forums. Fire away.

[WyethDigital]

Okay ... ignore my statement about you guys being hard on the poster. I didn't see that he'd posted in two different forums. Fire away.

He actually plugged in three different forums. One of them was the correct place.

Eric

[Rasheed]

Nah, I'm not interested in the subject anymore.

I guess mostly nothing good or noteworthy comes out of committees. So I have no high hopes for the ADM, nor for people who try to improve on their attempts.

I just don't understand why we need to play by rules that are the results of years long negotiations between broadcasters and advertisement agencies, with CPM, estimated downloads and such. I'm sure it's time for new rules, new ad agencies, to replace the old, failing bunch out there.

[WyethDigital]

Nah, I'm not interested in the subject anymore.

I guess mostly nothing good or noteworthy comes out of committees. So I have no high hopes for the ADM, nor for people who try to improve on their attempts.

I just don't understand why we need to play by rules that are the results of years long negotiations between broadcasters and advertisement agencies, with CPM, estimated downloads and such. I'm sure it's time for new rules, new ad agencies, to replace the old, failing bunch out there.

Yeah, I tend to agree. I don't see ADM as having a chance to accomplish that much. For one thing, their dues are steep for an unproven trade organization in a generally under-monetized field. It's laudable that people want to discuss the issues surrounding advertising in podcasting, but with dues ranging from $175 to $1,000 I think the only ones that are going to be able to afford to join are advertising agencies (who don't want to see anything change), podcasting networks (who only want to improve their bottom line), and podcasters that have already got their deals.

I also don't think that a dues-based group like ADM should be dictating quality and content standards. Podcasting began as an open source movement, and I think that's how it needs to be governed, if at all.

Eric

[somacow]

I also don't think that a dues-based group like ADM should be dictating quality and content standards. Podcasting began as an open source movement, and I think that's how it needs to be governed, if at all.

Eric

Truer words were never typed on the matter. The ADM, and anyone else attempting to leech a living off of genuinely creative people producing great content, should be ashamed of themselves. I defy any member of that organization to defend their outrageous fees.

[Rasheed]

I can only imagine that they require such high fees, because they only want serious podcasters, i.e. those podcasters that actually earn a living with podcasting. It is a typical attitude of closed source mindedness.

Apple think they have podcasting in their pocket, but they might be surprised what is being released in late 2008, early 2009. Podcast specific software that blows iTunes out of the water as a podcatcher. Furthermore, we are going to see podcast producing software that makes podcasting production less geeky than it is right now.

iTunes is only a temporary platform for finding podcasts. In essence, it is a music platform, with podcast added to it as an oddball part with tacks and lots of tape.

I think the same applies to the ADM. At this moment, there is a need for it, but once podcasting gets mainstream, we can push this organization to the side, because we then have better ways to monetize than through standards committees.