Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

This is Robbie Martin. Hi, everybody. Hello. So something bad happened with our SoundCloud. We were trying to expand the

platforms that Media Roots Radio is broadcasted on. And unfortunately, we registered with something

called Player FM. Robbie, is that what it was called? It's called Anchor FM. Oh, Anchor FM.

Which is supposed to be, it seems like it's a good service for people who are just starting

out a podcast who want to take the lazy route and it's supposed to act as a front end

to distribute your podcast to a bunch of other platforms.

But what ended up happening was I stupidly signed up for it without realizing that it wanted

to become the main RSS feed.

And basically what happened is it split all of our stats, our listener stats, into two places.

So you would only be able to see our listens on SoundCloud as being half of what they were before.

And then you see the other half on this anchor FM front end.

So we freaked out and we were like,

what the fuck? Like basically it appeared to set us back literally from the goal that we had, which

is to expand our audience and onto more platform. So appreciate all the recommendations we've gotten

for how to do that from different listeners, but I have a side eye for whoever

recommended Anchor FM to us because it kind of fucked us up. And I don't recommend using it if

you already have an established podcast. There's really no reason to use it. Even SoundCloud itself

allows you to see all the back end stats if you're signed in with all these other services.

So from SoundCloud, you can actually see how many people are downloading and listening

through iTunes and downloading listening through Stitcher. So SoundCloud already pretty much does

all the things Anchor FM does. It just does it in a slightly less neat package. It's a little harder to navigate.

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