Hey all…I’m going to go on a rant and adult words will be used ….
This will be on my Podcast page on Facebook and on my website and twitter, so if yo see this twice, I apologize in advance…
It really takes a lot to piss me off. I’m probably one of the most laid back human beings walking the face of the earth, maybe even too laid back to a fault, where things that should get under my skin, don’t…today was different.
The company that I use to host the podcasts is a company called Mevio. They used to be called Podshow, way back when I first started doing this in 2006. They were owned by Adam Curry, the VJ from MTV in the 80’s. There have been a lot of changes with Mevio in the last few years. Not a lot of them good, but I never had a problem with my shows, so I didn’t really pay much attention to them, but always kept an eye on the Mevio Producers Newsgroup, just to see what problems other people were having. Now just so you know, the Mevio service is free, they did not charge for the hosting, which is why I’m sure they had a huge amount of podcasters. Over the weekend different Podcasters were complaining that the feeds for their podcasts had just disappeared. Then more people started complaining, that besides their podcast feeds were gone, that the page for their shows at Mevio were gone. And no one from Mevio returned any E-mails. Not a good sign. So i went to check my feeds and pages at Mevio. The Dark Ambient and the Deep Energy VIDEO shows were both gone. I’ve had the Dark Ambient podcast for over 5 years and without warning they just shut it down. I am stunned and so fucking pissed, you cannot believe it. There were no emails, no notice, not a blessed f’in thing to let us know. My guess is that they got rid of all of the podcasts with low download numbers, since the Deep Energy AUDIO podcast is still alive. As of this evening, you can still go into iTunes and download all of the old shows, which I would suggest you do. It is probably going to be cost prohibitive for me move all of the old shows to a new hosting service ( if i moved all of the old shows to Libsyn it would cost me around .05 mb so probably around 500.00 give or take). They have probably shut off close to 90% of their shows…
So what does it all mean. To go to a new hosting company will cost money, so I’m checking out my options to make sure I pick the best one. It will probably be the people who made my app Libsyn. I was really happy when I wasn’t hawking ads on the podcasts, (I always thought asking people to pay for say Audible.com AND buy my downloads was a bit much, but that was part of Mevio platform for awhile).
If you own the app, I don’t know what is going to happen. I have some questions into Libsyn, but my heart and head tells me that the old episodes are eventually just going to be lost and I’ll have to start form scratch. I am so fucking mad…that is not how you run a business…
Here is a link from Techcrunch on what is sort of going on…Pivot my ass..!!
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/pro-tip-dont-pivot-your-way-into-irrelevancy/
I will keep everyone updated..and sorry about rambling ….
