Episode 266: Research Velocity

Podcasting 2.0 July 24th 2026 Episode 266 - "Research Velocity"

Show Notes

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📌 FROM PREP.md — Adam's PC20 items

Pod News — podcast app revenue (source for 'cut the apps into the money')

Pod News — the ad-skipping player

Board Q (Adam): "If you go to another chapter, is that a new play?" — for the AMP play=30s definition.

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00 - DAVE'S WORLD: THE ALTERNATE ENCLOSURE FINALLY GETS PICKED UP + HLS-IN-RSS SURGE

<b>Take the lap:</b> Podbean and Buzzsprout are now testing/supporting the <b>alternate enclosure</b> &mdash; letting other apps (Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, iHeart, TrueFans) reach the video/alt versions instead of everything vanishing into the Apple-only void. Lead the boardroom with the namespace win.

<b>HLS video in RSS is accelerating:</b> @js &mdash; "the rate of podcast hosts publishing high-quality video in podcast feeds using HLS has gone up quite a bit, thanks mostly to Transistor and Flightcast." The open path is winning adoption; watch it live.

<b>Namespace repo status:</b> attribution bylines merged for the <i>block</i> and <i>alternate enclosure</i> tags (PRs #772/#773). Quiet week on commits &mdash; the plumbing is holding.