Introducing podDB: Podcasting’s One-Stop Data Shop

Steph Garrett
Aug 23, 2017 · 3 min read

I’m Stephanie Garrett founder of podDB, is a centralized solution to find, submit, and integrate podcast credits.

I believe podDB can help the entire podcast industry by enabling people and apps to search, integrate, and present high quality podcast data on their sites, tools, and articles.

I’m excited to attend @PodcastMovement (#PM17) to learn more about how podcasters, developers, journalists, listeners, and entrepreneurs can leverage a robust and trustyworthy dataset.

Below are more details on podDB! And while I appreciate you reading the above and listening to the audio below: I’d rather tap me on the shoulder or send me message to discuss how podDB can help your podcasting related pursuits.

Inaccessible Podcast Data Hinders, the Listening, Discovery and Presentation of Podcasting….

So much so that, when building their sites, developers, podcasters, and entrepreneurs are forced to start from scratch and scrape together podcast data from either the ITunes API, the Google Play site, or directly from RSS files. And the information available to them, is at best: Limited in its scope and at times inaccurate.

Data itself, does not emerge into the world complete. It requires collection, cleaning, and review.

Our Solution to Limited Podcast Data

This is why podDB offers a complete, centralized solution to empower podcast-related services. You see, I think quality information about people in podcast and episodes can be beneficial for all of us, including

  • All the Recommendations Engines and Podcast Players, helping Discovery and Social Listening
  • Any Podcaster or Network focused on monetizing and promoting content
  • And all Listeners, Journalists and Reviewers commenting on the breadth & impact of podcasting

I want all of you to focus moving podcasting forward.

And want you to do it, WITHOUT THE HASSLE OF overseeing a costly data management program or maintaining unwieldy spreadsheets.

Instead, I hope to see, podDB serve as a complete database in a box, for presenting. host, episode, and guest information across the podcasting industry.

The Road to Trustworthy Podcast Data

We go about creating official records, or Podography records, by deploying hundreds of pre-developed scripts across podcast resources on an hourly basis, we do this, to automatically extract data into the records.

Then, every day, podDB’s human editors, check and curate the data in our repository.

Lastly, we engage with the community of hosts, guests, and producers to have them claim their records listed in the database.

This is how podcasting can leverage a more robust and trustworthy data about podcasting.

What’s in a Podography

In each Podography, we collect and present:

  • Available social handles and contact information

AND

  • The listing of Shows & Episodes associated with a Person or Network. Including their role.

Just think if there was a current dataset of:

  • Tim Ferris’s social handles, email info & a complete listing of his nearly 300 credits as either a: podcast host, podcast producer or a podcast guest.

Now think if someone was capturing that information for every person and episode that appears across podcasting.

That is how you should think of podDB.

Benefits & Features

In November 2017, our first offering will be a well-designed API that enables you to query the ever growing database and retrieve data, you want to see and use.

Customers who subscribe to the API, enjoy 3 main features:

Benefits of podDB

Purchase Model

  • The API, is available via monthly subscription
  • In addition, there is a one time initial access fee

You can contact me, Steph Garrett, founder of PodDB, for access and pricing details.

Whether you are developing a recommendation engine, a seamless podcast player, or dynamic ad-insertion platform, you can leverage the podDB one stop data shop, to build out your podcast-related pursuits.

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Steph Garrett

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Podcast Listener; Founder of https://www.poddb.me

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