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If we’re chiefly talking about automated downloads here, and if those downloads are guaranteed completion only when a listener actively pulls the show up and interacts with it, does this mean that the reported download numbers that publishers get from this bug are actually a more “true” picture of an episode’s listenership than without the bug? The bug’s emphasis on background downloads brings another, perhaps more fundamental question to the foreground. For some publishers, this can bring considerable complications to how podcast ads are bought and sold, especially if a publisher is in a position of estimating and reporting the average per-episode listenership of a given show to an advertiser up front. It’s just that, because of the background-download hiccups, downloads that would’ve typically been banked on the front end of an episode are now being recorded as they come in. Which is to say, listeners using Apple Podcasts are still likely consuming episodes at the rates that they normally would - though, of course, it’s entirely possible that the lost convenience of automated background downloads might cause listeners to bounce off an affected show, or, more broadly, that the increased crappiness of the app might’ve driven people off the Apple Podcasts platform entirely. Here’s my understanding on that front, based on what I know right now: Firstly, it’s important to emphasize that the issue impacts how Apple-Podcasts-specific downloads are being reported on the hosting side as opposed to a show’s actual listenership on the Apple Podcasts platform. There appears to be some uncertainty as to how publishers should best interpret the way in which they’re affected by this problem.
It’s only when the user directly interacts with the show listing - by tapping follow, play, save, and so on - that the affected episode will download in its entirety, guaranteeing its recognition as a reported download. Furthermore, if the affected user opens the app, only some of those partially downloaded episodes are completed. Here’s my understanding of the issue: For Apple Podcasts users on iOS 14.6 with the appropriate settings, new episodes of shows subscribed to on the app aren’t being fully downloaded in the background as expected.
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Although listening is unaffected, this issue can reduce downloads reported by third-party hosting providers and will be resolved with a software update, which also includes enhancements to Library, in the coming weeks. Listeners on iOS 14.6 may experience an issue that prevents automatic downloads for new episodes from completing in the background. On Thursday, the company posted a brief note on its “Apple Podcasts for Creators” portal flagging the problem: Last week saw the surfacing of yet another consequential bug, one that’s been active for at least a few weeks now.
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This article first ran in Hot Pod, an industry-leading trade newsletter about podcasting by Nick Quah.īetween the sharp uptick in bugs leading to alarmingly fundamental problems with publisher-side usability, new user-experience frictions that have caused ever more listeners to deem the app near unusable, and the stumbling rollout of its much-touted podcast-subscriptions tool - all generally pegged to the iOS 14.5 update - Apple Podcasts has had a pretty rough stretch of months, and the scene doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
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