The Football Pubcast: Now powered by Audioboo!
Last week was a challenging one for the Pubcasters but, as the gaffer Simon Head explains, it finished off with the lads celebrating getting a fantastic new home for the show.
It wasn’t a great week for me to be honest. We’d effectively been served notice by our hosting providers, who informed us that our show had effectively outgrown the hosting account, giving us just five days to remedy the situation. The fact that I only saw the message with three days to go didn’t really help, either!
By the time it got to Friday, things were getting twitchy. With many other sites that I manage set to be adversely affected if we didn’t find a new home for the Pubcast, I’d spent countless hours in the evenings trying to work out the best way to take the show forward. The website could remain where it was, but the podcast files themselves needed to be rehoused elsewhere. But with time running out and the possibility of having to take the Pubcast offline temporarily becoming ever more likely, we got the breakthrough we needed on Friday afternoon.
Thankfully, and brilliantly, the mobile and web platform, Audioboo, who I’d approached earlier in the week, agreed to partner with the show and from that moment all our technical issues were history.
As a result, we are now proudly “Powered by Audioboo” and I couldn’t be happier. Myself and Jim had a good few beers on Friday night to celebrate, let me tell you!
Saturday was spent switching the show across to Audioboo and giving the site a bit of a facelift in the process to reflect Audioboo’s involvement. If you already subscribe to the show, don’t worry, everything should remain exactly the same on iTunes so you can still continue to get the shows as usual. Nothing should change on that front. But what will change is the sort of stuff we’ll be able to do on the show going forward.
We are now on board with one of the most exciting new media companies in the UK, whose product is revolutionising how people use the spoken word on the internet. I have used the platform for a couple of years now, for both work and play, and absolutely love it. Now we have the exciting opportunity to see how well we can utilise their service for our show.
We’re now looking at various ways of harnessing the full power of Audioboo to improve the Pubcast and make it more interactive, while keeping it “grassroots”. The ideas are already flowing and there’s much to consider in the weeks to come.
It should be a fun season.
Check out Audioboo at: http://audioboo.fm