[PodcastMN] Player widgets

[Garrick Van Buren]

David,

Thanks for the clarification. I'm surprised there's still a  
conversation around advertising in podcasts. All the podcasts I listen  
to that once had ads haven't for...prolly a year.

Maybe just me though.

--
Garrick.

On May 19, 2008, at 9:43 PM, David Smith wrote:

> Actually, no, the player doesn't interject prepended or postpended  
> ads.
> But Podtrac does -- the whole idea with signing up for Podtrac's  
> service
> is for them to inject the ads at the beginning or end -- with your
> permission of course.  If they get interest from advertisers.  Which  
> is
> why they want surveys of your users, -and- demographic data from you.
>
> I use Libsyn as my host and my feed provider.  If you create your own
> feed, you can redirect each individual file through their system (as  
> part
> of the way you design each file link) so the ads are pasted on at the
> beginning or end, with no further intervention by you.
>
> For me to -actually- include their ads, I'd have to change the  
> hosting of
> my RSS feed, though not my file hosting.  I'm not planning to go to  
> that
> much trouble.  And they won't care anytime soon; I don't have enough
> listeners to justify advertising.
>
> But till it's an issue, I can still use their quite functional Podtrac
> Player at no cost to me.  Life is good.