iTunes US
Our Children’s story podcast, Storynory, has been fairly steady at No 3 in the US Kids and Family section of iTunes for quite a while. I was pleased to take a look last night and see it had crept up to No 2, sandwiched in between Disney and Cartoon Network. Storynory genuinely has a global audience. I received an email this week from Afghanistan. A school in New Zealand asked me this week if they could transcribe the texts of the stories in braille. We have loads of downloads from Taiwan. India is creeping up on our list of territories. The truth is that everyone loves a good story, and fairy tales are universal. America provides by far our biggest audience, and a steady flow of small but nice mentions in the media. Sometimes it seems like the UK is where we are least appreciated. Perhaps the Brits like to stick with familiar brands, like the BBC… Still we don’t do too badly here. I just think there is still a bit of resistance to unfamiliar, independent producers in the UK.
