They Just Changed What a ‘Play’ Means In Podcasting. Did You Notice?

Podcast: Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators · The Podmaster (Neal Veglio)

Opublikowano: 2026-06-16

Somebody just moved the goalposts on podcast metrics. And most podcasters didn’t even notice. The Alliance for Measurement in Podcasting — AMP — has defined a new cross-platform standard for what counts as a ‘play.’ Spotify has already adopted it. In this episode, Neal breaks down what this actually means for indie podcasters — why your dashboard numbers are about to look fairly different, why that doesn’t mean your show is doing better, and why optimising for any play-count threshold is optimising for the wrong thing. You’ll hear: — What AMP is and why they’re trying to standardise this — What is ‘int...