Yesterday I got an email from iTunes indicating that they had revised the categories for their podcast directory.
Here are the important points from the email:
- Most of the old categories and subcategories will be mapped to new ones
- Three categories have been removed and do not have a replacement:
- International
- Talk Radio
- Public Radio
Considering that iTunes is by far the widest used directory and podcatcher, it’s important to take note of this and update the categories in your feed.
For the most part, the changes seem to make sense. It’s only natural that something like this will have to evolve as podcasting moves forward. The one change that baffles me is the combination of the Business:Management and Business:Marketing categories.
If you use FeedBurner to insert iTunes tags into your feed, they should be updating their service to accomodate the news categories in the next few days.
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