![]() Along with 19 other abortion seekers, she’s shepherded across stateliness from Texas to New Mexico to access the abortion pill when Texas restricts abortion access. In its first episode, Crossing the Line follows the journey of an 18-year-old Latina mother who wants to provide a stable future for her toddler. ![]() “It speaks to both the dedication of the production team and the value of highlighting these personal stories about an individual’s right to choose, during these tumultuous times.” Content for PMC and creator of the series. “It’s incredibly gratifying to receive this type of achievement so early on in the life of this independent podcast series done on a small budget amidst such strong competition on the Apple and Amazon platforms,” said Lisa Caruso, Head of U.S. Now downloaded more than 15,000 times, with several episodes in the top 10% of podcasts downloaded in the first seven days, the immersive audio docu-series follows women and individuals seeking abortion care in the United States and the volunteers and medical professionals helping along the way. ![]() So the rankings in Apple Podcasts in those top 200 lists are all based on new subscribers.Population Media Center’s (PMC) inaugural original podcast, Crossing the Line, earned early recognition from both Apple Podcasts and Amazon Podcasts just a few episodes out the gate.įeatured in Apple Podcasts’ “New & Noteworthy” section on its homepage and selected for a promotional spot by Amazon, Crossing the Line, is making marked progress in the crowded podcast space by highlighting stories from the frontlines in the fight for reproductive freedom. “Each main category has a top 200 list and to get in the ranking of the top 200 categories and in the subcategories, that’s all based on how many new subscribers you have in the last seven days. The truth about how to rank in podcast categories and subcategories And when you launch with 10 with no listener feedback, you've trained this audience not to be invested emotionally in your show.” You have to have good content, but your audience is the one that’s going to tell people about it. Be involved.’Īnd in podcasting, it’s your audience that grows your show. Whereas, the show that launches with one right away goes from day one saying, ‘Hey, give us some feedback. So you’ve made your show very cold and antiseptic. People that launch with 10, they get 10 shows out the door and there's no listener feedback. “The other bad piece of advice people say is ‘launch with 10 shows.’ If you look at the shows that launch with one three, five, and 10, and you look six months out, the shows that launch with 10 do the worst. The truth on how many episodes podcasters should launch with New and noteworthy has no bearing unless you get on that front page, where, again, Apple is doing the hand-curating.” ![]() So yeah, don't worry about New and Noteworthy. The front page of Apple Podcasts/iTunes, that's where it actually matters and that's 100% hand-curated. We looked at shows that got featured by trying to game it, and it didn't help them at all. And New and Noteworthy sections are gone in the subcategories, so you can't even game it anymore for the subcategories.Īnd even when you could game it for the subcategories, it had absolutely no bearing on lifting your show up. “Ask for your refund from that webinar because you spent money on something that has just been BS from day one. ![]()
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