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This is the trailer for the Podcast Standards Project podcast.
Justin Jackson introduces the PSP: a grassroots coalition of podcast apps and hosting companies working to improve the open podcasting ecosystem. The project is focused on innovating on top of RSS, the open, decentralized protocol that's powered podcast distribution since the beginning.
Justin explains how RSS works: hosting companies update feeds for every podcast, those feeds get submitted to Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast, and others, and when you hit play, you're usually streaming directly from an independent hosting company. The PSP is collaborating with the Podcasting 2.0 community to build on that foundation. This podcast is where they'll share what that work looks like.
Questions? Reach out at podstandards.org/contact.
Creators and Guests
What is Podcast Standards Project?
Podcasting was built on RSS: an open, decentralized protocol not owned by any big company. The Podcast Standards Project exists to keep it that way, and to make it better. We're a coalition of podcast apps and hosting companies collaborating to adopt new features that benefit both listeners and creators. This podcast is where we share what we're working on.
Welcome to the podcast for the Podcast Standards Project. I'm Justin Jackson. I'm one of the founding members of the project, which is a grassroots coalition of podcasting apps and hosting companies who have formed this collaborative cooperative group that's dedicated to adopting new features that improve the open podcasting ecosystem for both listeners and creators. Essentially, we're committed to innovating on top of RSS, which is the way that podcasts have been distributed from the beginning. It's a open decentralized protocol, not owned by any of the big companies.
Justin Jackson:And it's still the primary way that podcasts are distributed today. Hosting companies basically update these RSS feeds for every podcast. And those RSS feeds get submitted to Apple and Spotify and Pocket Casts and Overcast and even YouTube. And then whenever a creator publishes a new episode, the RSS feed gets updated and all of the other apps pull from that RSS feed, and then update the consumer saying, hey, there's a new episode. And when you click play inside your podcast player, in most cases, that's still streaming from an independent podcast hosting company.
Justin Jackson:So we wanted to get together and say, how can we improve and innovate on top of this beautiful open source project, which is RSS. And we've been collaborating with the folks over at Podcasting two point zero to do that. And this is the podcast where we'll be talking about what that means. So you can follow along. And if you have questions, always feel free to reach out to us at pod standards dot org slash contact.
Justin Jackson:Thanks.