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March 25, 2024
- Enhanced: Your preference for “hourly,” “daily average,” or “weekly average” on ranking history graphs will now remember your last choice.
- Enhanced: If you happen to be using Podgagement when we deploy an update, you will now be prompted to refresh the browser so you get the latest version.
- Fixed: Searching for a podcast to add would sometimes blink through multiple search results, especially on slow connections.
March 20, 2024
- Enhanced: New sidebar design to organize Podgagement features better and allow for more space to support upcoming features.
March 17, 2025
- Added: Two new widgets added to the Dashboard and Rankings Overview pages: “Top current rankings” to show your top 10 rankings within the last hour, and “Best rankings achieved” to show your top 10 rankings your show has reached and when.
- Fixed: Retired Apple Podcasts genres were sometimes showing in the Charts & Rankings Overview as duplicates of other charts.
March 3, 2025
- Enhanced: The Rankings Overview page now loads significantly faster!
January 3, 2025
- Added: Embeddable widgets for individual reviews, selected reviews, or a smart dynamic list of reviews
- Added: Additional email recipients for engagement notifications
- Fixed: Some podcasts were failing to be added or updated because the RSS feed contained a bad image URL. We built in a smart fallback.
December 19, 2024
- Fixed: Newly added podcasts weren't finalizing processing.
December 13, 2024
- Enhanced: Restructured “Analytics” sidebar menu section to give “Charts & Rankings” and “Widgets” their own sections.
- Fixed: Some reviews kept being resent as if they were new.
December 5, 2024
- Enhanced: Massive speed improvements on Incoming and Outgoing Networking pages!
November 27, 2024
- Added: All-new charts and rankings feature! Track your podcast's ranking in up to 34,000 charts across all countries and genres in Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
- Added: Watch real-time updates of the top-podcasts charts from any genre in any country from Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
July 25, 2024
- Fixed: Not all episode ratings and reviews from Goodpods were being collected and you may have even seen a drop in ratings
- Enhanced: Improved app performance during the times Podgagement refreshes all podcasts (every six hours from midnight, US Eastern timed)
April 15, 2024
- Fixed: Some podcasts set to weekly notifications weren't receiving notifications when expected.
April 12, 2024
April 6, 2024
- Fixed: Update from March 28 was causing some deactivated podcasts to show and count against your limits.
April 4, 2024
- Removed Google Podcasts. 😢 Google had a good thing going, but they cheated on it and murdered it. RIP, Google Podcasts.
April 2, 2024
- Fixed: Goodpods ratings weren't being properly counted.
March 28, 2024
- Added: Show off your social proof with your global average rating and total number of ratings on both your Love and Follow pages (each with their own customizable options).
- Added: Set a minimum threshold of ratings you must have before they will show on your Love and Follow pages (separate option for each).
- Enhanced: Settings pages have been redesigned and guiding tips are now always visible.
- Enhanced: Significantly improved performance for several sections.
- Enhanced: Shareable URL slugs will now accept only allowed characters (letters, numbers, periods, underscores, and hyphens), and it will alert you if you try to use an invalid character.
- Enhanced: Auto-detected branding colors have been moved into the color palette, and we now suggest only dark colors.
March 25, 2024
- Fixed: Highly popular podcasts were hitting a backend limit on the Incoming Networking page that would cause an error.
March 22, 2024
- Added: Easily copy all of a review or feedback message with only 2 clicks! Copy as one-line plain text, multi-line plain text, multi-line markdown, or multi-line HTML! This will even include the transcript of your voicemail feedback!
March 12, 2024
- Added: CSV exporting has returned to reviews! Constellation members can also export their feedback to a CSV file.
March 9, 2024
- Added: You can now enter your affiliate URL/slug/ID into the new Account Settings page. This will make the “Powered by Podgagement” badge on your shareable pages use your affiliate link! (Join the affiliate program here if you're not already a member!)
March 6, 2024
- Added: Shareable pages for each feedback you receive
- Fixed: Some feedback was not getting the country attributed
March 4, 2024
- Added: Adjust the maximum recording limit for voicemails, 1–5 minutes
- Added: Customize the thank-you message displayed after your audience sends a message through your CastFeedback.com page
February 29, 2024
- Added: We now automatically transcribe voicemails through your CastFeedback.com page
- Added: Download voicemail in high-quality MP3
February 27, 2024
- Fixed: 4 podcasts were having trouble refreshing. We got them fixed!
February 26, 2024
- Fixed: Some characters were showing in their encoded form, like
& #39;instead of the characters they were meant to be. There's your free life lesson for the day!
February 6, 2024
- Added: Goodpods ratings and reviews for podcasts and episodes
- Added: Collect direct reviews from your audience through your LovethePodcast.com page
January 19, 2024
- Improved: Re-activating your subscription will now immediately queue your podcasts for a high-priority refresh.
January 18, 2024
- Improved auto-updating podcast information: title, artist, description, cover art, website URL, and description
January 11, 2024
- Potentially fixed: Some new users would receive error messages on adding a new podcast, and then be able to add the same podcast again, resulting in duplicates.
- Some performance improvements.
January 3, 2024
- Fixed: Email addresses with any uppercase letters would prevent logging in
December 22, 2023
- Added: automatically detect potential brand colors and suggest them in Brand Settings
- Added: upload a social image (recommended 1,200 × 628 px.) to go in your OpenGraph and Twitter tags to embed when posting your shareable pages on social networks
December 19, 2023
- Enhanced: add slug preview in Branding Settings
- Fixed: new accounts weren't activating immediately
December 15, 2023
- Enhanced: redirect very old
/personal_reviewURLs to new single-review URLs—where are these old requests even coming from? My Podcast Reviews stopped using/personal_reviewyears ago!
December 14, 2023
- Backend fixes and improvements
December 13, 2023
- Enhanced: started this public changelog so you can follow along with Podgagement's developments and see what's new
- Enhanced: old numerical IDs and non-customized slugs now redirect to the correct pages instead of loading from the same URL
- Fixed: old XML feeds now redirect to API v1 replacements and they should be without structural or GUID changes
December 12, 2023
- Enhanced: old, non-customized slugs for LovethePodcast.com and FollowthePodcast.com are working again (not relevant if you customized your slug)
- Enhanced: old individual-review page URLs are working again and redirecting, too
- Fixed: some podcasts weren't refreshing because of incomplete platform data
- Backend fixes and improvements
December 11, 2023
- Enhanced: place podcasts in a suspended status when they appear to no longer exist in podcast apps
- Backend fixes and improvements
December 9, 2023
- Added: launched status.podgagement.com page for checking uptime
December 7, 2023
- Fixed: XML feeds were trying to authenticate
- Backend fixes and improvements
December 6, 2023
- Fixed: LovethePodcast.com and FollowthePodcast.com slugs were case-sensitive
- Added: error page so you'll know when Podgagement is in temporary planned maintenance mode
- Backend fixes and improvements
December 2, 2023
- Added: programmatically guess origin country for CastFeedback.com feedback submissions
- Enhanced: hide deactivated podcasts from My Podcasts page and prevent them from using available podcast slots
- Backend fixes and improvements
December 1, 2023
- Enhanced: make podcast-switched dropdown scrollable for big accounts
- Backend fixes and improvements
November 30, 2023
- Officially launched Podgagement! EVERYTHING IS NEW!
- Renamed previous My Podcast Reviews plans to reflect the feature tier and number of supported podcasts.
- New feature tiers: Astro carries over the features from My Podcast Reviews, Constellation includes everything from Astro adds all-new features for more ways to engage your audience
- Added: new historical engagement graph, showing your ratings and reviews over time
- Added: new dashboard for a quick glance at your global engagement stats
- Added: filter your reviews with a text search, which searches the title, main content, and author
- Added: review author images when available
- Added: tag reviews for quick lookup or use
- Added: HTML iframe embed code for each review
- Enhanced: paginated review pages
- Added: include a custom welcome message and welcome video to your LovethePodcast.com and FollowthePodcast.com pages
- Added: light and dark modes for in-app pages and your LovethePodcast.com and FollowthePodcast.com pages
- Enhanced: preview your branding color selection in realtime in both light and dark modes
- Added: auto-update button to connect to new platforms
- Added: JSON REST API! (Okay, maybe only developers will get excited about this right now, but it's the foundation for future native integrations, like a WordPress plugin, Zapier, Slack, and more!)
- Added: CastFeedback.com page for collecting written and recorded feedback (Constellation tier)
- Added: feedback inbox with sorting and filtering (Constellation tier)
- Added: incoming and outgoing networking, tracking the podcasts recommended on your podcast, and the other podcasts that recommend yours on their listings
- Enhanced: redesigned shareable review pages, also supporting light and dark modes with your branding color
