Storynory and iTunes
iTunes is a capricious friend, so I hesitate to boast, but I was pleased to log on this morning and find that our Children’s Story Podcast, Storynory is at 21 in the UK Arts and Entertainment Category, just ahead of the Capital Breakfast show with Johnny Vaughn.
But despite having set “Family” and “Education” as iTunes subcategories, we don’t warrant a ranking in those charts. We do, however, appear under Education as a “featured” podcast, rather than in the separate chart. It’s annoying that big Brand Podcasts, such as BMW and Penguin are often plugged on the front page of iTunes under “New and Notable” despite being behind us in the charts.
If you set the “popularity” ranking in the fourth column of an iTunes podcast search (in the latest versions of iTunes, changing from the default “relevance”,) Storynory comes out top for a search on “children”, ahead of the BBC’s “Big Toenail Clippings” programme. But if you search for “kids” we come nowhere at all, despite having it as a key word and mentioning it in our description. We do, however, come out as number one in popularity for books, ahead of Penguin.
iTunes works in mysterious ways - but as 80% of subscribers use it, it’s THE most important promotion for any podcast - and Podcast Alley etc are far, far behind.
28. November 2006 at 19:45
I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.
28. November 2006 at 19:49
Luca, I’m not quite sure what you mean by 2000t, and that your songs are skipping. If you give a bit more info, I or somebody will try help if we can.