BBC podcasts on third-party apps

Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by jamescridland on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:04PM (#19517089)

The podcasts are played directly from the BBC's servers.

The BBC already have all the consumption data that they would expect - IP address, device, time listened, etc - in their own server logs. Just like a normal podcast player.

So... what user analytics do the BBC actually want?

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by shermozle on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:34PM (#19517719)

Those user analytics aren't very useful. You get IP address, device and time _downloaded_. You get nothing about "listened".

There's a standard NPR have written to improve this, but it requires the podcast players to implement it. It's very privacy-respecting but I doubt Apple will implement it, so it's probably going to be a non-starter unless the big podcasters like the BBC hold the line.

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Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps by jamescridland on Friday March 29, 2019 @12:52AM (#19519234)

The standard is RAD. The BBC hasn't implemented it.

For Google Podcasts, "downloaded" = "listened", since it has no auto-download feature. So they are (excepting the minority who manually download) actual listens.

You remind me that I should add a sniffer for RAD support in my Podnews pages, so I'll go and do that. My own podcast has RAD tags in it.

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