So you can go by highest points, total time listened
or value paid. So you might want to say, okay,
who's the top fan who's paid the most, who's
the top fan who's listened the most, or who's
the number one fan and sort it by the highest
points. So there's just different ways of sorting
that leaderboard so that you can get different
people in there maybe. 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. One of the tabs on the show level
screen in TrueFans is called Leaderboard. This
sounds fun. Tell me about the Leaderboard, please.
One of the things that TrueFans wanted to do
was build gamification into the system. The idea
of fans earning points for their activity. So
maybe the more they play an episode or the more
they share or the more they comment. Each one
of those activity verbs has a point in our system.
We don't tell you how many points for each verb.
So you can't play the game yourself other than
just actually doing it. But what happens is we
allocate points to users. So, for example, with
your podcast, Claire. Martin Lindeskog is your
superfan and top of your leaderboard. And so
Martin's clearly listened to your show the most
possibly. He's got five hours, 37 minutes. So
he is the number one listener to your show. And
so he's accrued the most points as well. And
he's at the top of your leaderboard. But you
can see also the other top 10 people in your
leaderboard as well. So those stars, that's the
points earned then, is it? Yes, that's how many
points they've got. And you can also, we were
talking about how do you find people to follow?
Well, again, you can look on a leaderboard and
you can see a follow button or a follow back
button. And so in the case of the creator might
say, oh, here's all my fans. I'm going to follow
them. Or me as a person also listening to this
same podcast might go, oh, I'll follow the leader
or I'll follow all top 10 of the leaders. And
so, yes, you'll see a follow or follow back button
so you can find new people to follow as well.
That's a really good way of doing it. What's
also rather cute, I think, is the little flags
so we know where our listeners are in the world.
Indeed, but they go one stage further, Claire,
because when you click on a flag, it will take
you to the search engine and you'll find other
people who are also from that same country. Wow.
So if you particularly want to find people in
Australia, you can, as I've just done. Yes. Very
cool. Once again, on this screen, we can do a
little filter, a little sort. I've got highest
points and then what else can we filter by? So
you can go by highest points, total time listened
or value paid. So you might want to say, okay,
who's the top fan who's paid the most? Who's
the top fan who's listened the most? Or who's
the number one fan and sort it by the highest
points. So there's just different ways of sorting
that leaderboard so that you can get different
people in there maybe. Yeah. So for example,
I don't know if this would ever happen, but like
my... super van might not necessarily be the
one who's listened to the most or who's paid
the most yeah it might not be they might have
shared the most they might have commented the
most we don't show all of the verb activities
they do in the leaderboard we yeah you know we
would have too many metadata items yeah yeah
so we just limited it to the amount paid in time
listened but yes the points accrued can come
from other verbs oh cool again lots of fun thank
you so much you're welcome 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
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episode on comments or email support@truefans
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