Podcast analytics by the network that serves the audio
Know your audience. Own your feed.
Syndigence counts every download from BBS Radio's own servers, watches Apple's charts, reviews and search, keeps your feed safe and in your hands, and explains all of it in plain English.
Included with every show BBS Radio produces. Invite-only while BBS hosts come aboard.
Which episode did best with new listeners?The 13 September episode: 1,204 downloads in its first week, 31% above your median. The guest episode effect again.
Why not just watch public data
Numbers only the network can see
Chart trackers can only read what anyone can fetch. BBS produces the show, carries it, serves the audio and owns the logs. That gives Syndigence five inputs no viewer of public data can have.
Verified downloads
Counted from bbsradio.com's own access logs under IAB-style rules, for every show, with no setup, no prefix and no plugin. Per episode, per day, by country, app and OS.
Network benchmarks
Where your show sits against the BBS median for its category and air slot. Only a network can show you this.
Transcript intelligence
Keyword suggestions, topic trends and show notes come from what was actually said, not from a blank form.
Guest lift
The network knows who was on. Which guests move the numbers becomes a query, not a guess.
Sponsor kits a sponsor can audit
First-party downloads, geography and listening apps, with chart history, in a PDF you can hand over.
Web plays, kept honest
Plays on bbsradio.com's own player are shown beside downloads and never mixed into them.
Four pillars, one place
Unify. Amplify. Optimize. Insight.
Unify
Your feed, in your hands
- One page per show: title, artwork, categories, episode order.
- Every change validated against Apple's requirements, previewed, versioned, one click to roll back.
- The feed URL never moves; nothing is re-submitted.
- Locked and verified, change alerts with the diff, clone watch across directories.
Amplify
Reach you can prove
- Downloads per episode, day, country, app and OS.
- The first-seven-day curve for every episode.
- Which platforms carry the feed and when each last fetched it.
- Stations, affiliates and spillover, counted separately.
Optimize
Charts, reviews, keywords
- Apple charts every hour, by country and genre, with movement alerts.
- A reviews inbox with sentiment and a drafted reply.
- Keyword positions, with suggestions from your own transcripts.
- Competitor overlap, YouTube performance, and a feed audit with a fix per field.
Insight
The AI layer
- Show notes, chapters, pull quotes and two alternative titles per episode.
- Review replies in your voice.
- "What happened to your show this week", in plain English, every Monday.
- Ask your numbers: a question box that answers with the chart it used and never invents a figure.
How it works
Three steps, no passwords
Sign in
An e-mail link the first time, a passkey after that. There is no password to lose.
BBS links your shows
Staff attach the network's records to your account: downloads, transcripts, feed control, benchmarks. Outside shows add a feed URL and start with public data.
Read Monday's e-mail
Downloads, chart moves, reviews and what changed, explained. The dashboard is there for the rest.
Built to be trusted
Your feed never moves. Nothing publishes itself.
Feed safety first
A broken feed drops a show from Apple within hours, so every edit is validated, previewed and reversible, and the two fields hijackers go for need a second approval.
Drafts, not autopilot
Every AI output is a draft you accept or edit. Ask-your-numbers is read-only by construction.
A methodology you can read
How downloads are counted is published in full, the way serious measurement should be. Listener addresses never leave the pipeline; only aggregates are kept.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is Syndigence?
Podcast and archive analytics, feed control, feed security and an AI layer for every show BBS Radio produces, built on the one thing only the network has: the servers that deliver the audio and the logs they write.
Who is it for?
BBS Radio hosts first: it is included with every produced show. Outside podcasters can join the waitlist; they start with public data such as charts, reviews and keyword positions, and can move their feed to Syndigence later for first-party numbers.
Why do my downloads differ from Apple Podcasts Connect?
They measure different things. Apple counts what its own app plays; Syndigence counts every podcast app's fetches of your feed under IAB-style rules, from the server itself. Web plays on bbsradio.com are shown separately and never summed with downloads.
What does it cost?
Nothing extra for BBS Radio hosts: it comes with production. Pricing for outside shows arrives with the public launch.
Can it change my feed without me?
No. Feed edits happen only from your own show page, are validated against Apple's requirements, previewed and versioned, and can be rolled back with one click. Owner e-mail and redirect changes need a second approval from BBS staff.
Outside shows
Join the waitlist
Syndigence is invite-only while BBS hosts come aboard. Leave your address and we'll write when it opens.
BBS Radio host? You don't need the waitlist: log in, or ask BBS for your invitation.