@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I don't know about the implementation (or whether signed media fetches is the right way); but I do know that if people spoof the names of other podcast apps in the useragent, then at some point, those other podcast apps will be caught in the crossfire with no fix in sight.
Also - a dependable useragent is also a billing mechanism, if you are sharing ad revenues with a podcast app. Which is the recommendation from @nprofile1q... and one I personally agree with.
We seem to have agreed to Apple taking a fee, apparently, for ads in (HLS) podcasts. So why not agree to that for Overcast, Pocket Casts, etc etc? Every podcast app gets, say, $1 CPM (or a tenth of a cent) per ad played? We can do that, if we have certainty about which app has requested the audio/video. Right now, we do not have that.
(I was very grumpy this week on PWR. Normally it's @nprofile1q... doing a 7am record. This week it was me. But, frankly, there's a lot making me grumpy at the moment about our industry.)
Also - a dependable useragent is also a billing mechanism, if you are sharing ad revenues with a podcast app. Which is the recommendation from @nprofile1q... and one I personally agree with.
We seem to have agreed to Apple taking a fee, apparently, for ads in (HLS) podcasts. So why not agree to that for Overcast, Pocket Casts, etc etc? Every podcast app gets, say, $1 CPM (or a tenth of a cent) per ad played? We can do that, if we have certainty about which app has requested the audio/video. Right now, we do not have that.
(I was very grumpy this week on PWR. Normally it's @nprofile1q... doing a 7am record. This week it was me. But, frankly, there's a lot making me grumpy at the moment about our industry.)