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Podcast & production
Podcast hosting
Podcast hosting stores a show's audio and serves its RSS feed, handling the bandwidth of thousands of apps polling and downloading — distinct from the directories where listeners find shows.
Apple and Spotify list shows; the host actually delivers them. Hosts differentiate on analytics, DAI, websites and, increasingly, transcript support.
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RSS feed (podcasting)A podcast RSS feed is the XML file that defines a show — its metadata and an entry per episode with the audio …
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