Here's something about AntennaPod that I've been wondering for a while. Sometimes I'm listening to podcasts from another country, but they have ads in a kiwi accent, about NZ businesses. How does this happen?
Is AntennaPod inserting these ads on-the-fly?
Are they being inserted just before it downloads?
Do the publishers of these podcasts have CDNs in different countries, each with local ads in their versions of podcasts? If so, how do they know which country I'm in?
@strypey almost all of the podcasts which I listen to on Antenna Pod have no ads in them. Which I would take as evidence that Antenna Pod isn't involved in the ads.
I have version 3.11.0
@ensslen
> AntennaPod isn't involved in the ads
The #AntennaPod devs aren't inserting ads as a business model for the app no.
My question was about the mechanism by which the ads I hear in some offshore podcasts are all local, so clearly not part of the original podcast episode. A less ambiguous way to ask the question might be;
Is the APod app inserting these ads on-the-fly based on an ad source in the RSS feed?
But on reflection it can't be that, it still happens when I listen offline.
@strypey this is standard. I was close to the team who built this in 2005 or so. You have an ad break and you dynamically insert the ad when the download is requested by the RSS client, based on whatever info you have.
@ensslen
> I was close to the team who built this in 2005 or so
Built AntennaPod or built the Dynamic Ad Insertion system?
> You have an ad break and you dynamically insert the ad when the download is requested
Thanks, mystery solved.
@strypey
Sorry I wasn't clear. I know people who think they invented dynamic ad insertion in podcasts. Negatives are difficult to prove, but for a few years all of the dynamic ads i knew of were theirs.
