Podcast Pulse

I keep seeing people say: "A podcast was always meant to be audio only." That's not true! In October 2005, Steve Jobs demoed video podcasts on stage at an Apple keynote. He showed them as a native media type on the new iMac and the new iPod Video. He even name-dropped Tiki Bar TV, a video podcast made in an apartment in Vancouver. This was just 4 months after Apple had introduced the "podcasts." V...

There was a great thread from John Spurlock on the Podcast Index server on Mastodon. He listed all podcast hosts that support the new HLS video standard in Apple Podcasts. Transistor.fm is on the list (we have two shows on Apple Podcasts using HLS), but Kevin Finn and Dave Jones were wondering why we hadn't put HLS into the <podcast:alternateEnclosure> tag in those feeds. Initially, the HLS...

I'm still hearing too many folks in the podcast industry say: "Nobody is watching these video podcasts," or "video podcasts are too expensive to create." But the reality I'm seeing is: Many podcasters are already recording video (on Zoom, Riverside, and Squadcast). It's natural for them to want to upload the video to YouTube (and attract an audience there), AND keep distributing audio to Apple Pod...

Welcome to Podcast Pulse — a show from Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm , dedicated to honest, unfiltered thinking about the podcast industry. Where is podcasting headed? What's the future of RSS, audio, and video podcasting? Justin wanted a place to process these questions out loud, and this is it. Whether you work in the podcast industry, create your own show, or just love listening,...