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PowerPress 4.0 Offers New Features and Updates for Latest iTunes Specifications

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Blubrry PowerPress 4.0 brings the latest essential features for media creation to WordPress, including the hottest updates to the new iTunes specifications.

“I am proud of this release of PowerPress, in supporting the latest iTunes podcast specs, additionally this update introduces innovative features first to market for the 10’s of thousands of media creators that rely on PowerPress,” said Todd Cochrane, CEO of RawVoice.

iTunes upgrades include:

  • An updated iTunes image requirement — RGB 1400×1400 — throughout the plugin for better cover image quality throughout.
  • “Feature Episode” that allow podcasters to designate a primary episode, which can be used to introduce the podcast or lead in to a new series.
  • An iTunes Order feature that allows a podcaster doing a series of episodes to have each listed in the desired order.

Other PowerPress 4.0 offerings include:

  • A new video player option: VideoJS HTML5 JavaScript player — a player that has its own plugin. By adding this plugin, the new player will be available as an option in PowerPress video players list.
  • A Feed Episode Maximizer “option” for shows with episodes in excess of what can currently be included in a feed. This feature allows the podcaster to maintain the latest 10 episodes in iTunes with all of the extensive episode data. The rest of the episodes are listed in a way that maximizes the number of episodes that can be listed on iTunes / Zune etc. Perfect for the serial podcaster with an extensive episode library.

Blubrry.com is a media community and directory that gives content creators the power to make money through advertising, get detailed audience measurements and host their audio and video. Blubrry PowerPress 4.0 brings the essential features for media creation to WordPress, offering full podcasting support, web audio/video media players and more.

Click on This Show Interview at NAB Show

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Todd is interviewed at the 2010 NAB Show  by the Click on This Show!

RawVoice proud to sponsor WordCamp / PodCamp Ohio

Monday, June 14th, 2010

RawVoice is proud to be a gold sponsor of the always entertaining, engaging and enlightening WordCamp / PodCamp Ohio! We’ll also be exhibiting and presenting at the Saturday, June 19, event.

Look for Angelo Mandato and Michael Dell in our booth near the entrance at the Ohio State University Mendenhall Laboratory. We’ll have a few Blubrry T-shirts to give away along with our show notepads. And you know what else is great? It’s free! (Though parking at the OSU Union Garage is $3 per exit.)

In addition to the booth time, Angelo will be presenting a session on “Podcasting with WordPress.”

Connecting with and sharing ideas with new and old friends are some of our favorite things to do, so we hope to see you there! Haven’t registered yet? You can do it right now!

Read all about WordCamp / PodCamp Ohio here.

Tracking all iPads!

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

With Apple’s iPad now arriving in the hands of hundreds of thousands of media consumers, it is destined to be a highly popular media consumption device. We have added the iPad to the list of devices we track in our podcast media statistics service, ensuring that your media — no matter what platform it is seen or heard on — is being counted.

All shows listed on the Blubrry Podcast Community have free access to our basic statistics service. Sign up now and add your show to Blubrry to make sure all your downloads are being tracked, including those from the iPad. Want the best media download stats but don’t want to add your show to Blubrry.com? Check out our RawVoice Media Statistics.

This is only the beginning. Our team has been working hard on some awesome stuff, so keep your eyes peeled! We have a number of exciting announcements to make in the coming days.

They’re here! Check out all you can do with our statistics upgrade

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

State-by-state statistics, day-by-day trending and mobile media download numbers are three of the many significant upgrades RawVoice now offers our podcast community, and we’re pretty excited about it. RawVoice is proud to announce the release of its Statistics System Version 1.1, offering a number of  revolutionary new features.

Take a look at the tools that benefit you:

Reporting by States

One of the most requested features,  you can now access state-by-state reporting all across the United States. You can view data by simply hovering over the interactive map.

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Trending By Day

Our trending report has been extended to include a 12-month outlook as well as a 30-day report. The new data lets you to see what days of the week draw your largest downloads. Trending data can be accessed simply by hovering over the interactive graph.

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Extensive List of Clients

During the summer months we’ve seen a surge in Blackberry and Android download traffic. To reflect this new trend in mobile media downloads, we’re now detecting the BlackBerry podcatching application, PodTrapper, and the Google Android podcatching application, BeyondPod, separately to give you more insight on how your media is being consumed on mobile devices. We also added the new Palm Pre (WebOS) and are now reporting the previous Palm mobile devices as Palm (classic).

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Here’s a list of mobile clients and podcatchers currently detected:

  • Opera Mini
  • Nokia
  • iPhone
  • Windows Mobile
  • BlackBerry
  • Android (Google smartphone)
  • Palm WebOS (Palm Pre)
  • Palm (classic)
  • PodTrapper (BlackBerry podcatcher)
  • BeyondPod (Android podcatcher)

More Sources

In our February 2009 statistics system update, we added a new Overall Distribution to report total web browser, podcatcher and web bot downloads. After auditing our system, we discovered additional valuable data with reporting Mobile Applications (such asBeyondPod for Google Android and PodTrapper for Blackberry) as well the mobile web browsers themselves.

We are now reporting “Plays in Page” for users who use flash-based players on their web sites for in-page media playback. For users using our Blubrry PowerPress WordPress podcasting plugin, this feature has been enhanced to track all in-page plays on your web site.

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Performance Improvements

We’ve improved the performance of the statistics system: Users can now update statistics at any time. We have removed the five-plus download minimum requirement for displaying downloads for media files. You’ll now see the media appearing in the reports with one download.

This is great new stuff! And, as I said, we’re pretty excited. Try it out, then take a sec and let us know what you think!