So, it's a really good indication, as you said,
of discovery, but it's also, we call them recommendations
because it really is the creator saying, this
is a list of other podcasts I think you will
like. And it's a high value recommendation, therefore.
Welcome to Fanzone, your bite -sized guide to
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enthusiast. And I'm Sam Sethi, the CEO and founder
of TrueFans. Carrying on, looking at the tabs
that appear on the show screen of a podcast.
After reviews, there's a tab called recommendations,
which I like very much. I think they're a lovely
discovery feature. But Sam, can you explain to
us what that actually means? Yeah, so recommendations
are really the creator of the podcast saying
here are other podcasts that I think you, my
fan. will like to listen to based on you listening
to my own podcast. So it's a really good indication,
as you said, of discovery, but it's also, we
called them recommendations because it really
is the creator saying, this is a list of other
podcasts I think you will like. And it's a high
value recommendation therefore. Now in other
apps, they may be called pod rolls, which was
the original name for them, but we thought we
would go back to the word recommendations because
it made. much more sense for people who are new
to podcasting to understand the term and what
might be within that tab. Yeah, I think as a
listener, if you're not a podcaster yourself,
you're not really going to know what pod role
means. It's related to blog role, which means
nothing to me either. This means something to
us old people who were around in the days of
blogging. So recommendations, I mean, it does
what it says on the tin, doesn't it? It does.
You do have the option in this tab to choose
the tile and list view, which we've talked about
before, but basically that just shows you the
art in big or the art in little. And it's really
lovely because you can just click on that and
go. straight to that show that's been recommended.
And as you said, it's the like, no trust, you
know, I like this podcast, I like this podcaster.
If they're recommending these shows, then I'm
likely going to like them as well. How do the
recommendations get there? How does the podcaster
put them there? The primary way of doing it should
be through your host. Now, not many hosts yet
support this new feature. Buzzsprout, for example,
do. And so you'd be able to go into the admin
dashboard in your host and you will get a option
called Podroll. You go into there, there's a
search box. You search for podcasts that you
like and you click add to Podroll in Buzzsprout.
We're hoping that other podcast hosts adopt this
feature as well, but so far they haven't. Now,
you as a creator can also claim your podcast
in TrueFans and you can go into your creator's
dashboard. And there is an option in there for
recommendations. And exactly the same way as
Buzzsprout, there's a search box. You find the
podcast you want to recommend and you add them
basically as a list appears. So either through
your host or through directly the creator's dashboard
in TrueFans. But as you know, Claire, we're going
to be talking more about the creator's dashboard
and the features and functions in future episodes.
Yeah, brilliant. And as you know, Sam, it's one
of my favourite features and I was quite disappointed
when I found out it wasn't as well supported
as I thought it was. So more people need to do
it. But yeah, we'll talk about how you can do
that if your hosting company doesn't do it. You
can do it directly in TrueFans, which is brilliant.
We'll talk about that in the future. Thank you
so much for that, Sam. Pleasure, Claire. 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
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