So you can either listen from the beginning and
they could be 20 minutes into the episode or
you can click the play button just below their
avatar and you will join them in exactly the
same point that they're listening to. I really
like the discoverability potential of the friends
icon that shows me what my friends have been
listening to. I look forward to hearing what
you all are listening to. Welcome to Fanzone,
your bite -sized guide to getting the most out
of the TrueFans podcast app. In each episode,
we'll discuss an aspect of the app and hopefully
answer any questions you may have about it. Plus,
when you listen to Fanzone in TrueFans, you
can earn as you listen. and use your earnings
to support your favourite podcasters. I'm Claire
Waite Brown, independent podcaster and all
-round podcast enthusiast. And I'm Sam Sethi,
the CEO and founder of TrueFans. The final tab,
or at least it's the final tab for now, on the
episode screen is called co-listening. Sam,
what happens when I click on this tab? Co-listening
is a lovely feature that we added where friends
that you follow or that follow you can listen
to the same episode at the same time so on the
home screen you have a little drop down that
tells you what people are listening to what podcast
you can click on it and join them and then what
will happen is they get a notification that you've
joined them and then when they click on that
co -listen they will see your face and they will
know that you've joined them but equally if somebody
joins you you can see where they are in terms
of how far they've progressed in that episode.
So you can either listen from the beginning,
and they could be 20 minutes into the episode,
or you can click the play button just below their
avatar, and you will join them in exactly the
same point that they're listening to. And then
in the future, the next version of co-listening,
we will provide a live chat feature, which then
allows you and your friends to chat in real time
about the show while listening together. In the
co -listen tab today, what you will end up seeing
stage one is other people who are co -listening
to the same episode as you. And then stage two,
we will provide a live chat feature in that same
co -listen tab so that you can go, oh, Claire,
did you hear what James Cridland just said? I
agree, disagree or whatever. And you can then
share the experience at the same time. Yeah.
Oh, cool. What fun. I just wanted to remind people,
you mentioned about the home screen and there's
that little icon at the top, which is the three
friends. And as you said, that's where you can
see what other people are listening to. If you
don't have any friends yet, I'm just going to
remind you how to find people because you need
those friends first. So you just click on the
search icon that's at the top of that screen.
And then you have the option to search for someone.
You can search for a fan. So that will be someone
that you'll know and you'll become a friend with.
An artist, so presumably a podcast or a music
artist or a podcast. And then you can go and
find people. And if you like that person, what
do you click on? Two options. One would be follow
or the other one would be follow back. So if
it's follow, it means you're not following me.
So I can follow you unilaterally. But if it says
follow back on the button, it means you're already
following me and now I'm going to follow you
back. So we have a mutual follow. Yeah. Some
clever podcasters like Sam and I will have their
names and photos shown on the podcast episode
screen and show screen. Click on this and you
will have the option to follow that creator,
as Sam has just mentioned. Please do follow us
that way and we'll aim to follow you back too.
I really like the discoverability potential of
the friends icon that shows me what my friends
have been listening to. But I do need some new
friends since right now all of my friends and
I listen to the same shows. I look forward to
hearing what you all are listening to. Thanks
so much for listening. There are lots more episodes
of Fanzone for you to get stuck into and that
show you how to make the most of the fab features
that this forward -looking podcast app has to
offer podcast listeners and creators alike. We'd
love to hear from you. You can send us a comment
on TrueFans. More about that in the Fanzone
episode on comments or email support@truefans
.fm.