Podchaser, an “IMDb for podcasts,” is building a big tags-based database to help people discover shows

PodDaily » Podchaser, an “IMDb for podcasts,” is building a big tags-based database to help people discover shows

One of the most common gripes about Apple among podcasters, particularly those with smaller audiences, is that the company hasn’t done enough to solve the industry’s discovery problem. While podcast listening continues to climb, it does so unevenly: Apple’s top podcasts charts are perpetually dominated by a shuffling, but largely identical, list of shows, all from established media brands: This American Life, Planet Money, How Stuff Works, Serial, etc. For smaller shows, it’s hard to break through.

The “podcast discovery is broken” maxim, now frustratingly familiar, has spawned no shortage of efforts looking to solve it. A new podcast database and discovery site, Podchaser, which is billing itself as the “IMDb of podcasts,” is also taking a swing at the issue with what it says is a new spin: a focus on podcast episodes rather than entire shows, as well user-generated tagging and episode-level reviews.

Podchaser, which is still somewhat barebones in its beta stage…

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