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Monthly Update For February 2018

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Monthly Update For February 2018

Wenbin Fang
Mar 1, 2018
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Monthly Update For February 2018

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Hi there!

February is the 5th full month that I work on Listen Notes full-time. It was a short month that has only 28 days, but it was a very good month!

First, the website traffic increased a lot. I've got 180k page views this month, which is ~25% more than that in January.

Second, Listen Notes joined the latest batch of a startup accelerator -- Boost VC.

Third, I've got some ad revenue. 

Product updates

1. Further improvement of Listen Later. Added some privacy settings there.




2. Added Hot Podcasts. It's a daily top chart based on user activities, i.e., clicks, listens, listen later, clips, social sharing... Hopefully this can help surface great episodes & podcasts that are NOT from the top 20 publishers.




3. Allowed podcasts to advertise on Listen Notes. I've got 2 paid advertisers now :)

4. Added three more individual Twitter accounts & Facebook pages with curated podcasts.

  • Listen Crime: Facebook / Twitter

  • Listen NBA: Facebook / Twitter

  • Listen Crypto: Facebook / Twitter

5. Again, I spent a lot of my engineering time improving the infrastructure, which is extremely critical to this search engine project but is less tangible to end users :(

6. Automatically tagged & transcribed episodes. See this example. It's not 100% accurate -- maybe 50%? But it's better than nothing. 



7. Started to work on a new thing to help promote independent podcasts. Stay tuned!

Company updates

I spent a lot of time dealing with 2017 corp tax. Fortunately, I got it done and survived this tax season! I spent more money on accounting / legal services than what I made last year :(

And Listen Notes has been accepted into the new batch of a startup accelerator called Boost VC. This means, I've got some funding to survive through this year. So, Listen Notes is here to stay. 

I'll tell the story how I was connected to Boost VC in the future :) 

Some numbers

  • Database: 451k podcasts; 27 million episodes

    • Just want to remind us: Google indexed "only" 25 million web pages in early 1998.

  • Website:

    • Page views: 180k

    • Unique visitors: 44,818

Blog posts

I wrote one blog post in February:

  • Where to find podcasts that are not from BIG publishers?

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