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[Version3]

I’m wondering something… if subscribing to a podcast will make that podcast more popular if done via the iTunes store. And if so, I wonder if you could delete your subscription and re-subscribe both logged in and not logged in to the iTunes store to increase it’s popularity? And I wonder what filters Apple has in place to keep this from being a major source of increasing ones popularity. Anyone know more about this?.

[rob]

But when you delete and resubscribe, does it try to redownload the last show?

[Version3]

Until you tell it to stop, yes it does seem to.

I guess what I’m wondering, is does iTunes measure popularity based on searches, or subscription clicks, or downloads or ???

[thx_1227]

I have often wondered that myself. I thought it was subscriptions until I heard you (Bryan) mention in an older show that it may be how many times the subscribe button is pressed. Google searches aren’t really revealing anything to me at the moment…

[rob]

I don’t think anybody knows. It’s one of life’s big mysteries. Like solar wind.

[EmFour]

I believe it’s by subscription clicks, although I could be wrong. As an avid podcast listener, the common joke is “subscribe to iTunes to bump us up, and if you are, unsubscribe to resubscribe.” That could just be the uneducated masses, however.

[thx_1227]

That would seem the easiest way to keep track of it.

[Frank]

From what I gather, we have three idiots who do a pop culture podcast here at my newspaper (called … wait for it … the PopCast!) and they have it set up on iTunes. I’m hearing they get pretty good traffic using iTunes, so I’m guess that if a mid-sized newspaper in South Carolina can generate buzz on iTunes using sappy, cheesy crap, then yeah, you probably could generate unique listeners.

FYI, our publisher sent out an email today saying that we met our goal for February. Apparently, we had more than 200,000 unique visitors to our Web site in the month of February. Anyone else think that’s a little strange? Especially given the backwoods area I work in (that and a MAJOR newspaper not more than a 30-minute drive away from us)?

[Version3]

the words “dial up” come to mind as a partial explanation.

[Octavious]

I’ll do what needs to be done like re-subscribe.

[Frank]

Well first, we’d need to see a new show 🙂 hehehe (Hint, hint … and yes, I did check this time before posting this)

[Version3]

Believe me, if it were up to me, we’d be doing twice weekly shows like in the beginning.

In some cases, I suppose it’s just hard to put them together the way things are now. My hope it to drive the popularity of SOS to try and spur more production, rather than see if it happens on it’s own. I have fun doing the show, I’d like it to continue forever. In trying to drive that popularity, I’m also trying to understand how some of the things we are already doing work, or how we could make them work better.

[Frank]

Well, I’m trying to do my part. I’ve worn my new SOS shirt twice to work already and have been asked by many people (many=5) what it meant.

Spreading the good word … on boob at a time.

[El Rustirino]

Well, I can’t say I fully understand the problem that you have with putting shows out – is it work, or something else?

In any case, if I knew how to help (and if it were in my power, not like the shirts), I would do it.

[thx_1227]

Being an amature podcaster myself with two co-hosts that live 45 minutes away, I completely understand how hard it is to coordinate schedules…

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