Podcasting on SoundCloud - Now anyone can host a podcast on SoundCloud

@colemercer this is great, going to recommend it to a few friends 👍🏻

@colemercer been hosting two podcasts using SoundCloud beta over the last year - looks great, super easy to use. I don't understand some of the old-school podcaster hate for it :) new era. I'm sure you've gotten a million feature requests, but I'd love to share two with you: 1. Export data. The data is fine, just wish I could export it. Right now I manually enter monthly downloads into a spreadsheet and it's kind of a pain after doing it for a year. 2. (This one is much more challenging). You guys should find a way to solve the sharing problem. Say I'm listening to Product Hunt's podcast and Tim Ferriss has an awesome quote - there's no easy way to share that, other than remembering to for later.

@colemercer @davegerhardt Thanks for the feedback, Dave! Both challenges are on our radar :)

@rrhoover Glad to hear it!

@rrhoover Do you get more listeners on Soundcloud vs iTunes?

@sidazhang we actually use SoundCloud to distribute the podcast to iTunes and other sources. I'm not sure what the listener distribution is though -- it's impossible to measure actual listens, unfortunately.

@sidazhang @rrhoover with the new stats feature you can split out the RSS plays vs. on platform plays.

@fenbytaylor Hey Matt - where's can you see that breakdown under stats? I've been using it for a while and nothing has changed in my stats view?

@annewooten @mlieber @lisachow @eriktorenberg would love the feedback! Our main goals were enablement and insight. Make it trivial for anyone to distribute their podcasts widely and show what's happening and where by breaking out the RSS data in our creators stats. We hope it let's creators focus on creating.

@annewooten @mlieber @lisachow @eriktorenberg Time based comments are pretty sweet :)

@mlieber @lisachow @eriktorenberg Yup, this launch is all about making RSS distribution as simple as possible and providing podcasters with insights. Looking with a wider lens though, as @annewooten is well aware, the more content that's hosted on SoundCloud, the more opportunity we have to move beyond the limitations of download-based RSS distribution toward awesome projects like https://www.audiosear.ch/ and our social integrations, making the possibility of viral audio a reality.

@jessebouman Yes. You can get your RSS feed now from Soundcloud and give that to iTunes - http://help.soundcloud.com/custo...

@imstilljosh Which part in particular did you hear that about? Maybe our creator guide about podcasting helps: http://on.soundcloud.com/creator... Or is there something more specific on your mind?

@imstilljosh Ya, switching feeds can be easy or complicated depending on your current hosting provider. More details here - http://help.soundcloud.com/custo... Also happy to help walk you through it if you want to DM me on Twitter.

@jcatsoup that is awesome! I'm subscribing to a pro account. Thanks! I'll let you know if I hit any snags. Great hunt!

@colemercer @samhouston This feature launch gives you the option to generate an RSS feed from your SoundCloud account, and also provides more granular stats to help you understand the traffic on that RSS feed. So the SoundCloud RSS feature offering is highly competitive with any other RSS hosting provider. But there's a ton of features beyond the RSS world that SoundCloud enables and no other traditional podcast host can provide.

@timdorr We also have split out RSS plays and activity in our creator stats product too.