RadioPublic is another prominent app that does not include ratings. We are planning on changing the business model this year to one that should bring in a lot more users, so ratings are something we might consider in future.” “We would show the iTunes ratings if Apple made them available through their search API, which they don’t at present.
“When we launched the app in 2016 we didn’t feel that we had a large enough user base to have a meaningful number of reviews/ratings,” he says. I asked Pádraig Ó Cinnéide from Supertop why their podcast app Castro doesn’t include ratings. Some podcast apps don’t include ratings or reviews at all, including well-known apps like Pocket Casts and Marco Arment’s Overcast. Hackable? in Castro, which doesn’t include ratings or reviews Not all podcast apps have ratings or reviews “We are currently working diligently to bolster our recommendation algorithms and this is part of the ultimate solution,” he says. CastBox’s Peter Vincer told me these feedback features don’t yet factor into the app’s Top Shows list, but will soon. You can also find episode-level likes/hearts at CastBox.FM, a cross-platform podcast app that boasts 15 million users worldwide. The Hot Episodes are the episodes with the highest popularity scores for that day, week, and month. For example, a “like” by a Breaker user is weighted more heavily than a listen. Listeners can leave likes and comments on individual episodes, and according to Breaker’s Leah Culver, those likes and comments factor directly into their “Hot Episodes” list:įor each episode, we compute a popularity score based on the weight of the type of feedback and the amount of feedback. For instance: Breakerīreaker is an iOS podcast app that aims to make listening social. However, some other apps are more transparent about how listener feedback is used in their podcast discovery features. They may factor into Apple’s charting algorithm, but we don’t know for certain, and Apple’s not saying.
#POPULAR DID GO WRONG POCKET CASTS SERIES#
These series perform well because they’re high-quality shows that add value to listeners’ lives… not because they managed to get tons of star ratings.Īt Pacific Content, we have not seen conclusive evidence that ratings or reviews directly contribute to chart performance, visibility, or editorial support from Apple Podcasts.
0 kommentar(er)
