AAA 488: All These Flipping Phones!

[Leo]

Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…

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What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!

[JoShmo]

Good episode overall. Seemed like a busy week for news, rumors, updates. The odd thing was an add for online sports betting at 1:00:00 into the show. When it first started running I thought my player had skipped to another podcast or a pop-up ad in a browser had hijacked the audio feed. I don’t remember the last time I heard an ad in a TWiT show that wasn’t read or recorded by the host/staff.

[big_D]

@Leo announced this a while back, so far TWiG was the main recipient. When they can’t sell all the advertising space, the CDN/podcast streaming service they use is adding external adverts, I think it is currently limited to North America.

[PHolder]

@JoShmo

The odd thing was an add for online sports betting at 1:00:00 into the show.

This has been mentioned/discussed in other places, here’s one:

TWIG using megaphone.fm

I’m sorry to say, it’s possible. Megaphone is a service that provides direct insertion of ads after the show’s release. We’re testing it on TWiG because we have so few advertisers on the show. But advertisers are demanding DI and we may have to extend it to other shows if it works. I will address the file name and date changes with the team, however. That might be something we can fix. @PDelahanty can you address this with Megaphone?

here’s another:

PocketCasts inserting adds into podcasts

There’s a previous discussion here: https://www.twit.community/t/podcast-inserting-local-commercials In short: To be clear, Pocketcasts isn’t doing it. It’s not the podcatcher, it’s the show itself. We host it on megaphone, when megaphone sees your ip it builds a show with geo-targeted advertising on the fly. We are not adding ad positions. It’s the same number of ads as always, but in shows that aren’t sold out (chronically TWiG) we might insert an ad in the unsold ad position. They still …

which additionally links here:

Podcast inserting local commercials?

I am using Pocket Cast to download and listen to podcasts. One of them is playing what I think are local ads (I’m in Arizona and hearing ads for Arizona services). This is normally at the beginning or end and it part of the download…I don’t think it is dynamically inserted while I am listening. Is this possible?

[JoShmo]

OK. That explains how it happened to be geo-tagged to my state, too. I just happened to be driving in town today and saw a billboard for the same ad. Totally makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!