I’ve had a lot of great conversations with people in podcasting this week about the news @ashleyrcarman broke @webby2001 and I have fast tracked a few ideas we were sitting on and will be writing about how as an industry we can solve for these issues This is a call to action

You all @SoundsProfNews were who I first thought of after I read that piece.

It is incredibly hard not to just write a twitter thread or release a podcast episode as an immediate reaction to what happened, but we gotta do this right and choose every word. This isn’t a bubble bursting, it’s a bad actor and something we can prevent going forward.

Exactly, I am hoping the "podcast community" can keep our own street clean on this type of issue. Looking forward to your thoughtful response!

It’s a bad actor (this one got caught), but it is also a metric that is so easily scammed. We need to come up with something that is better. A lot of smart people in this space, we can do it. #to

The issue here isn’t juicing downloads, it’s the potential for unaccountable ad fraud down the line. Putting stock in incomplete download rankers is something I feel we’ve moved far past in the last few years.

Contacts @dexter_toolz on Instagram he helps scammed victims to recover their restricted PayPal account and other cryptocurrencies just give me a message for more information. Sorry about your lost funds.quickly Dm or contact @dexter_toolz on Instagram

So sad I thought I was the only one with the same issue. How did it happen?

Contacts @dexter_toolz on Instagram he helps scammed victims to recover their restricted PayPal account and other cryptocurrencies just give me a message for more information. Sorry about your lost funds.quickly Dm or contact @dexter_toolz on Instagram

Ad marketplaces typically spend a lot of money on tech for fraud prevention. Podcast industry is weird cause publishers have become the marketplace. It’s a huge conflict of interest. The inevitable result is this download arbitrage we’re seeing here…since attribution is opaque.

I don’t agree. We follow very similarly with other industries outside of a few key things. A big change we can make is improving the acceptable connections between Players and Hosts, along with minimum reporting requirements for buyers.

Well, we agree on more reporting, if you’re referring to more data on attribution & conversion. This data is uniquely hard to triangulate with podcasts…so we probably disagree on how similar we are with more mature industries like display. Look forward your writeup though!