Stitcher is thought to be the 2nd most popular podcast player, although it has long been controversial in some circles for its default practice of hosting podcasts itself (instead of directing users to download them directly from a podcaster’s server) and inserting ads. Stitcher’s business practices are a little suspect amongst the Deezer buys podcast app Stitcherīen Thompson, from the amazing Exponent podcast wrote a great article called “ The Future of Podcasting” and did an episode with his co-host James on it called “ A podcast about podcasts“. I downloaded Overcast and it is amazing but only does audio. I have an iPhone and I use the default app. Kennadian – Nerdist: The Stitcher Situation ![]() Stitcher is a capitalism-based-parasite in my opinion. So people on top take it all and don’t even pay good money to decent developers. Stitcher had been getting buggier by the version. Furthermore, for people taking others ad revenue, they don’t even put it into making a good app. May not be compressed, but I want the people who worked hard to deliver me free content to make the most of their own shows. I’ve deleted stitcher and now I’ve found an app that I can paste the rss feed into that gives me the same ability to stream or download. I’ve found this blog as well as some others highlighting this issue. Here are a few commenters on articles / posts about the subject: I firmly believe podcasting should be open, like the web. That’s not how podcasting is supposed to work. Stitcher is popular, but my show is not on Stitcher because Stitcher re-hosts the audio, compresses it to hell, and unless you opt out, inserts their own ads. Midroll owning Stitcher is not good for the podcast ecosystem. Here’s what John Gruber from Daring Fireball has to say about the situation. It’s not just me being paranoid or greedy. If we are all in stitcher with their ads replacing ours, and them sending a few % back to us, podcasting will look very different (and not in a good way). Successful podcasts like Talk Python To Me currently work directly with sponsors, negotiate a fair rate based on product / audience fit and reach. Stitcher is bad for podcasting: If they are wildly successful, they will undermine independent podcasting in general.Sell it in other ways, keep the money: Similarly, they sell banner ads around your content in their player.They sell your work, they keep the money: Stitcher takes your creative work and slices it apart, and sell their audio ads in your track without paying you at all (or if you partner with them extremely low revenue). Nevermind I spend almost 15 hours a week creating and producing the show.I spend a lot of money and effort producing and distributing HQ audio and don’t appreciate this. ![]() Crappy audio: They can take your RSS feed and episode MP3s, copy them to their server and re-encode them with a super crappy bit-rate.After a number of listeners requested I add Talk Python there, I figured I’d do it because, hey, I really do love you guys and gals.īut, agreeing to have your show listed on Stitcher is a bit of a deal with the devil. I have always been a little suspicious of Stitcher’s business model. Why would I not want more listeners of my podcast? Do I already have too many? No, please subscribe if you haven’t – see below ). If you run a podcast yourself, you might want to read this carefully too. This has probably caused some grief to a number of my listeners and to you all I apologize about that. I have decided to remove my Talk Python To Me podcast from Stitcher.
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