To: iTunes Podcast Dept, iTunes
iTunes : Please Separate Celebrity Podcasts from Independant Podcasts
iTunes please separate the Celebrities from the Independent Podcasts. Being ranked is difficult enough within the Independent podcast community. Having to compete with established Celebrities makes it nearly impossible.
Why is this important?
Being a podcaster is a culmination of producing, engineering audio, editing audio, marketing, research, and social media. Most podcasters will tell you we do it for the love of the "art" and making significant money is unlikely and, quite honestly, unattainable. Our reward comes in the form of downloads and listener interaction. Competing for rankings with well established celebrities and well known personalities makes it extremely difficult to grow a listenership that ,quite frankly, we sacrifice so much time and money to gain.