Facebook to Launch Podcast Publishing Platform Next Week

[hatchettjack]

🤮

 

[Apple_Robert]

I wish FaceBook would die and be nothing more than a steaming pile of tech rubble with Mark in tears.

 

[Absolute Trainwreck]

Simmer down. Not everyone is as paranoid.

Found the Facebook employee

 

[JoshuaBru]

Found the Facebook employee

And the person I avoid at parties

 

[09872738]

I wish FaceBook would die and be nothing more than a steaming pile of tech rubble with Mark in tears.

And broke. He is the last person to deserve his fortune

 

[Montana_Griz]

Facebook. So gross.

K-K, Thanks.

 

[Sarkany]

And the person I avoid at parties

I doubt you go to parties with actual people in them.

 

[darkcompass]

Podcasts were good while they lasted. Soon we will need 5 or 6 apps in order to listen to everything we were able to listen to in one app only a year ago.

I only use Apple Podcasts. If I can't listen through the Podcasts app they I won't bother with anything else. I suppose it won't be long until podcasts I listen too put up paywalls as well, thanks to podcast subscriptions.

The definition of Podcast has changed over the years. When podcasts were new you had to download using apps like Juice and Nimiq, and store on your mp3 player, there was no online listening/streaming then back on 2004.

Now online streaming is the norm, and so rss feeds are a bit old (!). People post on youtube, mixcloud etc and then notify via some social media.

 

[kc9hzn]

The definition of Podcast has changed over the years. When podcasts were new you had to download using apps like Juice and Nimiq, and store on your mp3 player, there was no online listening/streaming then back on 2004.

Now online streaming is the norm, and so rss feeds are a bit old (!). People post on youtube, mixcloud etc and then notify via some social media.

The latter is quite problematic, though. RSS is an open standard, you can host your podcast on it, even if your podcast isn’t listed in any directory. YouTube and social media increasingly exercise a high degree of content regulation and editorialization (and YouTube wants to monetize every video on the platform to the extent possible [it’s in the ToS, they reserve the right to monetize every video], which means more content control). When you use someone else’s platform for that business, you’re wholly dependent on that platform remaining available and amenable to you. If, for some reason, it ceases to be so, you’re the one who took that risk. Remember the hubbub a few years back about Twitter severely limiting third party Twitter apps? That’s a prime example.

It’s also not clear to what degree things like mechanical licenses (ie for music) are applicable to YouTube, especially given the existence of ContentID. Imagine getting a copyright strike for a piece of music you’ve actually licensed from the music label. Or uploading a live performance you hold the copyright for (let’s say you’re American Idol or Eurovision) and you get a copyright strike for a song that was original to your performance but spun off as a remixed single that got uploaded to ContentID. Or worse, you’re the owner of a television series and your upload of the show’s theme song gets content matched by a French album of knockoff television theme songs (I’ve seen multiple television theme songs, the original version, mind you, hit content match against the exact same French album of knockoff versions of television theme songs). All the more reason to avoid building a business on social media or YouTube.