Podcast Categories Have A Bad Apple At The Core [S3E82]

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I recently signed https www podcastersdeclare com Podcasters Declare an open letter to Apple designed to pressure the tech-giant into adding Climate Change as a top-level category inside of Apple Podcasts nbsp I had reservations about signing the petition Not because of the topic Climate change is real No my reservations were much more mundane Was a new top-level category warranted There are already over 100 categories inside of Apple Podcasts Can the categorization system handle the pressure of giving every category its due No No of course it can t And therein lies the problem We re not approaching the problem from the correct angle Your https www reddit com r NoStupidQuestions comments 584f1m how many books are there in an average sized average bookstore only has a few thousand titles on its shelf at any given time Yet those bookstores have categorization systems that are incredibly expansive nbsp But in podcasting we do have millions of titles Yet only around 100 categories to sort them into That s never going to work nbsp If the https www podcastersdeclare com Podcasters Delcare petition showed me anything it s that we clearly need more awareness around this issue Climate change sure But also we need more awareness on the fact that that we ve ceded control to Apple on how podcasts should be categorized and stored That s untenable nbsp nbsp I was pleased to learn that https github com Podcastindex-org podcast-namespace phase-3-open the Podcasting 2 0 initiative is considering re-defining podcast categories as part of its third phase But even that https github com Podcastindex-org podcast-namespace blob main categories json only lists 112 categories currently nbsp The solution isn t to add more categories The solution is to ditch categories altogether and do something fundamentally different Or maybe you and your fellow podcasting compadres have a novel notion worthy of consideration Discuss this topic the next time you re on a virtual call together Or share a link to the article in an online discussion group to seed the conversation Because what we have right now hasn t worked for a while and we need a better way —– Read the full article and share with a friend https podcastpontifications com episode podcast-categories-have-a-bad-apple-at-the-core https podcastpontifications com episode podcast-categories-have-a-bad-apple-at-the-core https twitter com evoterra Follow Evo on Twitter for more podcasting insights as they come https buymeacoffee com evoterra Buy him a virtual coffee to show your support And if you need a professional in your podcasting corner please visithttps podcastlaunch pro Simpler Media to see how Simpler Media Productions can help you reach your business objectives with podcasting https podcastpontifications com Podcast Pontifications is published by Evo Terra four times a week and is designed to make podcasting better not just easier This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis Chartable – https chartable com privacy Support this podcastClick here to visit this podcast episode