166: Luminary Ruining Your Podcast Stats, Twitter Banning Political Candidates & More

On episode 166 of the BSP I analyze a new podcast app called Swoot and discuss how they plan to fix the podcast discovery problem, Luminary's launch and how they were ruining your podcast stats and taking away a revenue stream, and Twitter banning political candidates showing how inconsistent they are with enforcing their rules. Subscribe to the full audio podcast at http://www.bandrewsays.com Twitter: @bandrewsays Ask Questions: [email protected] Merch; https://teespring.com/stores/podcastage-store Discord: https://discord.gg/dXQUc7v 00:00 - Intro 01:01 - Podcast Player Claims to Solve Podcast Discovery Problem!

• https://swoot.com/

04:08 - Luminary Hiding Podcast Downloads & Stealing Your Money!

• https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/25/luminary-retooling-after-podcasters-request-removal-from-service/

10:21 - Twitter Banning Political Candidates

• Twitter Bans Carl Benjamin & Tommy Robinson: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/440869-twitter-suspends-eu-election-campaign-accounts-for-two-candidates-who-were
• It's important to hear directly from our leadership: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/twitter-ceo-on-trumps-tweets-i-believe-its-really-important-to-hear-directly-from-our-leadership

15:38 - Neumann KMS105 16:37 - WYHTS: Banning the Lottery? 19:45 - WYHTS: Surviving an Internet-Free World!? 25:19 - Ask Bandrew 25:51 - Email 1 26:47 - Do you think we'll revert back to cable? 28:21 - Email 2 29:35 - Is Goldman Sachs working with apple to screw the consumer? 31:40 - Email 3 Are giveaways breaking YouTube's TOS?

• YouTube Ad Guidelines: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/154235?hl=en

36:22 - Recording differently this week 37:03 - Geeks Rising Podcast Live! 37:34 - Podcast release time seems important 38:36 - Outro