Aug/090
DJ, your own iPhone iPod app with mobile podcast included for €99/$139 only
Podcast is nice, and a real good way for DJ, but only technophile people actually subscribe. iPhone and iPod apps are the new way to reach a larger audience, as they can not only include a podcast without needing the user to understand what’s RSS and how to subscribe in any software and you can provide your complete activity: twitter account, blog, dates from your MySpace, photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube channel, boards… etc. And you can do it internationally !
For a maximum number of DJs to benefit from an iPhone app, we are launching a €99 offer (until 30.9, it will be €149 thereafter ) which is including a podcast (hosted for free on NeoPodcast for 1 year) and one feed among Twitter, blog or MySpace dates. Those who want to add many of these modules (or those above), can directly add them or in a future update.
If you want to know which audience can have this kind of application, please see below downloads statistics for DJ Hedonist app in 3 days, with no other promo than Twitter or Facebook status. In July, app still is downloaded between 40 and 50 times a day. We’ve also developped Joachim Garraud app (which doesn’t include podcast in its first version but was downloaded more than 1000 times in less than 3 days) just to get metrics
Beware, if development time is short (depending on demand when you order), approval delays may be very long (around 3 weeks right now).
Important question: can we use a podcast which is not hosted on NeoPodcast ?
Yes, you can do that, but you have to follow Apple guidelines (which wants bandwidth used to be low) when app is submitted, which means either a few DJ sets only, or using a mobile codec (HE-AAC or AACplus v1 48 Kbps for example) which offers good quality. What you can also do, is a dedicated mobile podcast on NeoPodcasts. Once approved by Apple, you can add as many sets as you want. DJ Hedonist app was submitted with only one DJ set at 48 kbps and get new DJ sets since.