Being the podcasting gurus that we are, you guys might think we know it all . . . and a lot of times we’d probably like to think so as well. But, know what? We don’t. You all have a lot of critical information and amazing insights that will help us improve Blubrry.com. So right here, right now, we’re asking you to take a second or two, ponder a few questions, make a few suggestions and help us to make Blubrry.com more compelling and inclusive than ever.

Thank you for your input.
Click the link below to take our brief survey (it’s only 10 questions)
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Yes that’s correct you can now login to Blubrry.com with an OpenID account. Users that already have accounts will be able to associate there OpenID logins with their existing accounts. We wanted to make Blubrry even more accessible to listeners that are looking to find new content.

Login with OpenID today and let us know what you think of the implementation.

So far as we know Blubrry.com is the first podcasting site to implement the OpenID standard and quite frankly we are pretty proud of this accomplishment.

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH CYBER PR!

Here is how you can make your podcast even better with more access to podsafe music by using Cyber PR:

• Hundreds of downloadable podsafe music tracks
• Free CDs or schwag for giveaways and promotions
• Interviews with podsafe musicians
• Tickets to any show in your area
• A chance to be the featured podcast in the weekly newsletter that goes out to over 6,000 social media makers (all you have to do is play our musicians on your show)

Find all the details here in your menu: content/podsafe music

If you are one of our Podcast Publishing and Hosting customers you will want to enable custom home pages. This gives you a default landing page that is free of any Blubrry Branding.

You can put advertising on the page and also pick one of our 7 customizable skins or come up with your own design on the custom home page management page.

Check out the Short Video on Custom Home Pages

If you are not a Publishing or Hosting customer would you be interested in your own custom home page to replace your landing page on Blubrry.com if so drop us a comment via the contact page

All of us have very busy lives and the last thing we want to do is waste time in publishing the media that we have worked so hard to create. I have put together a short video demo that is going to show you just one of the tools in our Podcast Publishing and Podcast Publishing with Hosting service that is designed to save you a lot of time.

Check it out

Over the past six weeks the team has been working very hard on what we are terming premium podcast statistics. Many of you using our Podcast Statistic service have asked for a wide variety of additional reports.

Many of you have noticed the tell tale signs that we have been adding the premium features, by reports that are not available to you in the free statistics system.

While our basic stats package will remain free we want to bring you a much richer data set in the plus package which will be priced at $5.00 a month (three month minimum) or $50.00 a year. We also have 100% branded solutions available as well for those running their own networks you should send Todd a email if you want your own branded solution.

While we will be adding more premium features throughout the summer via inputs of the users of the service, this is what the initial Premium Podcast Statistics will offer above and beyond the already very rich data sets that we provide already for free to community users.

• Full Report of Clients
• Full Report of Referrers
• Full Report of Operating Systems
• Full Report of Geographical Data
• Daily Email Summary
• Episode Trending by Month
• Country Map Reporting
• Audit of Uncounted Request
• Export to Excel Files
• Create Guest Account

Sign up for the Premium Podcast Statistics Today

We are pleased to announce some new features and changes to Blubrry!

First, the account settings page has changed. We’ve cleaned up the menu options by only providing a link to the Statisticss system (if you’ve filled out an advertising survey) and a link to the new Publisher system.

We’ve developed a new interface called the Publisher for members to manage their podcast(s) listed on Blubrry.com. Over the coming weeks we will be adding a number of features to the Publisher system for Blubrry members to utilize. I can’t get into the details what these new features include, but if you snoop around in the settings section you will find that we’re now asking for your twitter user name.

We’ve received a lot of complaints about home page coverage. We’ve changed the logic for the most recent podcast section to randomly select 4 episodes that have been created in the past few hours. we’re re-randomizing these 4 episodes every 15 minutes. This should provide fair exposure to all of the podcasts listed on Blubrry. Remember, your post has to include media in order for it to be included in the home page. blog posts will no longer be included on the home page.

Please contact us if you are having any problems or have suggestions how we can improve blubrry.

There is a syntactical error in the Podpress code which prevents the “Enable Blubrry Statistics” option from working in Podpress. The code fix have been sent to Dan and will hopefully be included in the next version of Podpress. Instructions how to patch Podpress version 8.6 are available on the RawVoice support site linked below.

Link: How to implement the statistics redirect in WordPress with Podpress

The program profile pages have been redesigned on Blubrry!  The new design is in response to the feedback we’ve received from the community.  The new design focuses on usability.

Examples

• The DaddyCast
• Baseball Historian
• Friday Night Dance Party
• Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

We now include a subscribe & share widget on the right column that will make it easier for your audience to find your subscription information.  Yahoo and Odeo have been replaced with Google and Microsoft Zune subscription links.  The subscribe & share widget includes links to Digg and del.icio.us as well as to your RSS feed.

We’ve added new Play on iPhone buttons within each post.  In case you were wondering, the Blubrry Player already supports the iPhone.  The new iPhone buttons make it easy for iPhone users to consume your content on Blubrry.com.

We’re just getting started. Watch more more changes to Blubrry.com and the rest of the RawVoice communities!

On Friday we announced to the entire Blubrry Community the roll-out of our new and improved pre-advertising qualification survey. We have already seen a great number of you go in and complete the new survey.

Based on information we learned while meeting with National Media buyers we will be able to close the loop on information that is needed to properly represent your shows.

In the next few weeks we will be introducing a listener based survey that once combined with the data we have received from you via the advertising survey, and the new media statistics data that we are able to analyze we will be able to answer any question thrown at us about any show in the entire blubrry family.

We are not going to horde this information. The best part is all of this data collection will tie into a new service we will provide back to those of you that belong to one of our communities.

We believe in giving you added value tools you can use, and we feel the end product that we provide you through the RawVoice Exchange system will be unlike what is available today through any other new media community.

Tags: Advertising+Survey, RawVoice+Exchange