The legend @mijustin came through to the 75th London IndieBeers on Wednesday!
As a huge Transistor FM fan (we use it for Napkin Math), and longtime follower of his founder journey, I was suitably gassed to meet him.
We talked about their new video feature, some cool roadmap stuff, and how counter-cultural #londonmaxxing feels against the typical UK reputation.
Thank you Justin, and don’t be a stranger next time you’re in town 🫡
Here is a demo of Transistor's new video podcast hosting feature!
Upload one video file, and we'll publish that video episode to YouTube, @ApplePodcasts, @spotifypodcasts (coming soon), and HLS in RSS!
We're particularly excited about HLS video being distributed through RSS.
Occurs to me that Apple Podcasts video, being mostly algorithmless, see-what-you-follow only, means another form of content can emerge.
No need to be youtubey, no cringey thumbnails necessary
Just a new large, fairly open space for better stuff to thrive
Case study: @stephenrobles (Primary Technology) shipped his first video episode on @ApplePodcasts in early April.
Over the next 60 days, plays per episode jumped from ~9,000 plays to ~20,000 plays.
https://t.co/DVUD5d8yo3
Video podcast hosting is coming soon to Transistor!
You'll be able to upload video and have it distributed everywhere: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and HLS video in RSS via the alternateEnclosure tag.
🚀 NEW:
Podcasting is one of the most popular ways publishers share their work — and now you can run members-only podcasts on Ghost, with our brand new @TransistorFM integration
Quality writing 🤝 Quality audio
TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI
The world is changing quickly but TBPN will stay the same. Live every weekday just with a lot more resources.
Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this journey big or small. We are 17 months in and unironically just getting started.
Together with author Dan Pink, I have started a new podcast series called Best Case Scenarios. Each episode asks an expert to give us their best possible good news scenario in the next 25 years. What happens if everything goes right? What is the best case scenario for say, energy, transportation, biotechnology and brain science? Those are the subjects of our first four episodes. These scenarios are not predictions, but visions of what we can aim for in order to make them real. Get them on your podcast app. https://t.co/iQNMJRxWmb