podcast-namespace/podcasting2.0.md

# Podcasting 2.0


## What is it?

Podcasting 2.0 is a combination of ideas, and the technologies to support those ideas.  It's a vision for what the podcast user experience can and should
be.  That experience has stagnated for over a decade, with almost all of the improvements coming in isolated sections of the ecosystem.  One app may figure
out a way to improve upon a single idea.  Then, perhaps a hosting company makes a deal with a certain app to make headway with another challenge.  In this
way we've ended up with fragments of innovation across the podcasting landscape with no central driving goal in mind.  Podcasting 2.0 is the expression of
that goal.

Stated eloquently, the goal is this:

  > "I think our focus should be 100% on improving the podcasting experience in an open-standard way that allows every player to innovate faster
  > and better than any one company could do on their own. This is our best bet at avoiding one company emerging as the monopoly of podcasting."
  >
  > --Tom Rossi [Tom Rossi](https://podcastindex.social/@tomrossi7/105839063781381384)


Closed ecosystems can not innovate any better or faster than open systems.  We should know this by now.  The open world of RSS based podcasting can not only
keep pace with closed systems, it can exceed them easily.  Podcasting 2.0 is simply the technological expression of this idea.  We can make a better podcasting
experience for users than they can get behind any walls - no matter how high or expensive those walls are.

There are three parts to Podcasting 2.0:

1. The "podcast" namespace
2. Web app friendliness
3. Value for Value


## Step 1. Declare the "podcast" namespace in your feed

To be a Podcasting 2.0 compliant podcast you need to first declare the "podcast"
[namespace](https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md) in your feed if you self-host your podcast.  If you
use a hosting company for your podcast, check [here](https://podcastindex.org/apps) for a list of hosts that now support the new namespace.

The namespace gives you (and your listeners) access to many new features:

 - Transcripts: You can deliver a text transcript along with your episode to make your content more accessible to those with hearing challenges, or for those
                learning your language.
 - Funding: This points listeners back to a donation or membership page that they can click on to join or donate money to your show.
 - Chapters: MP3 files have had the ability to embed chapters for many years.  But, now you can create a "chapters file" that gets delivered along with your
             episode to allow rich content like images, embedded web pages, titles and silent markers.  This chapters file lives on the web, so it can be
             changed later after publishing without uploading a new audio file or changing your episode.
 - Soundbites: Specify short bits of your episode to serve as an intro or a teaser for your show.
 - Persons: You can give multiple bio's in each episode that have short "about" descriptions of the people on that episode (like hosts, guests, etc.).  Did you
            interview someone cool?  Point to their head shot image and link to their Wikipedia page or their blog.  It makes searching for people within podcasts
            easy and enjoyable.
 - Location: Is your podcast about a specific place?  Tag it's location right in the episode or podcast feed to let people know.  It makes your show more
             discoverable on the web.
 - Named Seasons: Seasons have been around for a while, but now you can name them.  This way you can avoid the hassle of trying to cram everything in your show title.


## Step 2. Make sure you're web app friendly

Next, you need to confirm that your feed does not use "mixed content".  That means that all of the parts of your podcast (the feed, images, audio files)


## Step 3. Value for Value

The final step is monetizing your content with cryptocurrency.