Channels vs Categories

  • Resolved DexDeadly

    (@dexdeadly)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m reading conflicting reports and I am a bit confused. I currently am working on building a media network. Were looking to have a few different podcasts on the site with accompanying YouTube channels for some. The video part is not an issue. What I’m confused about is, if I have a site with different podcasts that are all different in nature. We have a paranormal show, a tv and movie review show, a nerd show, etc. Originally I thought Podcast Channels was the way to go. I went ahead and set up a show as a channel and then submitted to iTunes, stitcher and google play music. However, now I’m reading that Categories should be how to do different shows? Which to me then it seems like every single show would be under the default feed/podcast then which is not really what I would want. I would think then Google when it crawls would think that feed is what I want out there when it’s not. With category, each show would then be cinescape.media/category/feed/showname. To me, the logical thing would be to have cinescape.media/feed/show for every show which would be done by having podcast channels.

    I appreciate any insight into making sure I set these up correctly.

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  • Plugin Support Mike Dell

    (@benzoid)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Channels work just fine for different feeds from the same site.

    The feed addresses will be https://yourdomain.com/feed/slug/ Whatever slug you pick for the extra channels. The default channsl is /feed/podcast/ That also is normal. Nobody really sees the feed address anyway anymore so it’s not super important in most cases.

    If you need more detal or want me to check it out for me, use the blubrry contact form here: blubrry.com/contact/ and we can take a look at your setup.

    -Mike
    Blubrry Support

    Plugin Contributor Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @dexdeadly,

    There are many ways to organize your podcasts. Here is the official reason to use each:

    Podcast Channels – Re-use the same title/blog post content to syndicate various formats. e.g. a video podcast feed, audio podcast feed, pdf transscripts podcast feed.

    Podcast Categories – organize podcasts into various categories You will still have one master podcast with all of the episodes together you can submit to apple, but the categories help you organize the episodes.

    Podcast Categories with strict category podcasting – 1:1 podcast categories optimized to allow you to have multiple shows each by their category. You will not have an episode in one category found in another category with strict category podcasting, which prevents duplicate episodes appearing on Apple podcast directory, which they frown down upon.

    Post Type podcasting – Unless you know what post types are, I would avoid this. If you do know what post types are, this is another way to organize podcasts.

    You can organize shows separately using Podcast Channels to achieve the feed URL you want, but I would not let permalinks and how they look be the reason you decide this. Once you submit these podcasts to podcast directories, no one is going to see the feed URL, its only the first step in the transaciton. The more important thing is to pick the format that is easiest to manage for your situation. I would not use Podcast Channels to organize 5+ separate mp3 formatted podcasts, this is really a job for Category podcasting.

    Thanks,
    Angelo

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