benjaminbellamy

Having a third party is nice even if you don't have an advertiser in the loop. Being able to compare (between 2 episodes, 2 podcasts, 2 countries, 2 players…) is a real plus. And at least OP3 is open data.

I hope it gets enough critical mass too!

Apple will stop following 302 redirections after… 25 of them!

At some point I wanted to embed a monitoring feature within Castopod that would disable op3 in case it fails to respond… but it would add some much plumbing that the monitoring mecanism itself would probably fail long before Op3…

Indeed, you have to be really careful and monitor your prefix provider very closely. But it's the best (only?) way to get podcast analytics. Other technologies such as RAD would have been much more resilient, but no one wanted them. :-/