This is nothing new for those of you who read and listen to my items about podcasting. Let me tell you a quick story.
A bully once sunk his teeth into my brother when he was a small child. He had been picking on my brother off and on for some time. My Mom had had enough, and went out into the front yard and sunk her teeth into his arm. It was an eye for an eye moment, and the kid left my brother alone from that point forward.
With this in mind, I hate that I regularly meet people online who use Blog Talk Radio, they want to leave, and they have to go through a painful process to move. Consequently, I don't mind being “the guy who hates blog talk radio” because I do. They hurt my my clients. They thrive on new potential podcasters operating in the dark about podcasting. I recently found out something that I just couldn't believe, but it's true.
When you use blog talk radio, you no longer own your own content. See this post in their support forum.
It reads, “Yes. You can visit all of the features with Premium and Premium plus here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/premium.aspx Pro Account Profiles include all of the Premium and Premium Plus features, as well as ownership to your content, control of your Advertising Revenue, and allow you to monetize your show.
The premium account is $249 a month.
I will add this to my list of things I hate about Blog Talk Radio
Hi, i think that i noticed you visited my website so i came to return the prefer?.I am trying to to find things to
enhance my site!I guess its adequate to make use of some of your ideas!!
Fairly area of written content Good Childs Gifts. I just now became aware of your web site and in accession investment capital to get i always attain in fact appreciated bank account your current web site posts. Any way I am opt-in to your rss feeds and perhaps We completion you have perfect regarding having access to regularly promptly.
For most up-to-date news you have to pay a visit web and
on the web I found this web page as a finest web site
for most recent updates.
Hi Dave, this is Andy Toh, BTR’s Chief Architect / GM.
To clarify, hosts on blogtalkradio have ALWAYS owned their content created/posted on the platform. Regardless of whether you are free, or paying $249 per month. They just grant us rights (as is standard on all sites hosting content uploaded by users) to display the content and syndicate the content on their behalf.
The wording in the TOU isn’t the best, and I can see how that point is opaque. Really need to get all the opaque legalese converted into English.
Mentioned this in our interview, but thought it’s helpful for you to have this in writing.
Regards,
Andy
UPDATE: We’ve since further clarified the ownership issue in our terms of use. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/page/termsofuse Please see section 6.