The Importance of Owning Your Show: A Spotify Exclusive Cautionary Tale

The Importance of Owning Your Show: A Spotify Exclusive Cautionary Tale

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About this episode

In this episode, the hosts reveal the newest Buzzsprout feature (Episode Footers), talk about lessons learned after Spotify axes exclusive shows, Alban gives his take on the iHeart mobile gaming scandal, and Jordan shares how she stumbled upon the original (Victorian) Ghostbusters.

GAMING THE SYSTEM (FROM 9/29/2022 EPISODE)
https://www.buzzsprout.com/231452/11409852
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads

by Ashley Carman, Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/inside-podcasters-explosive-audience-growth

NEW FEATURE: EPISODE FOOTERS
https://www.buzzsprout.com/new/74-episode-footer
The Episode Footer is the easiest way to add the same information to the end of all your episodes. Use it for host credits, social media links, or whatever else you can think of!

SPOTIFY EXCLUSIVES CANCELLED
Spotify cancels 11 shows: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/spotify-cancels-podcast-shows-layoffs-1235395020
Spotify UK relaunches show without hosts: https://podnews.net/update/old-show-new-hosts

ELGATO WAVE DX
https://www.elgato.com/en/wave-dx-dynamic-microphone
Elgato's first dynamic microphone.

PODCASTS ON VINYL (CONT.)
We found a couple custom vinyl sites! ($$$)
https://vinylify.com/
https://intheclouds.io/

BOOSTAGRAM NUMEROLOGY
 https://github.com/Podnews-LLC/boostagram-numerology

POST SHOW: GHOSTBUSTED!
The Ghost Extinguisher by Gelett Burgess from Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1905.
*Content Warning: there are elements of racism in this short story.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26950/26950-h/26950-h.htm#THE_GHOST-EXTINGUISHER

Did we accidentally discover the real inspiration behind the Ghostbusters movie?

An excerpt: "My assistants with the extinguishers stood firm, and although almost unnerved by the sight, they summoned their courage, and directed simultaneous streams of formaldybrom into the struggling mass of fantoms."..."Luckily the night was calm, and I was enabled to fill a dozen cylinders with the precipitated ghosts."


Alban (47%), Kevin (29%), Jordan (24%) 

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