I think the video explains it all, but just in case I will try and cover all the areas I may have forgotten.
Carpool will be back, probably late September but don't hold me to that.
The new series will still be available on the same feeds on iTunes and YouTube, but it will hopefully look a little bit better, it won't have any sound synch problems on YouTube, and there will be audio only versions available.
I'm always happy to receive suggestions of who you'd like to see on the show.
I've got some cracking passengers already lined up and a lot more in the pipeline.
Hope you keep watching when it comes back in the autumn.
It’s not surprising there is some confusion about Carpool, where it is, when it’s on, if it’s on, what it’s on, even why it’s on.
This is partly due to the way it came about, and partly because of the complex relationship between traditional broadcasting (what I called proper telly) and internet distribution. We are all using nascent technologies which are evolving and changing all the time, keeping track of one podcast is not that easy.
Unless you use iTunes of course then it’s very easy, but there are clearly a lot of people who don’t like using it and that’s fair enough.
Back in January 2009 I started putting them out exclusively on iTunes because I use that system, I understood it and the thinking was it was a premier media distribution tool.
More importantly, there was no time restriction, the podcast could be as long as you wanted.
Unlike YouTube which at the time had a 10 minute limit. If you had a directors account (which I now do) no such restrictions applied and I wanted carpool to be longer than 10 minutes.
So iTunes it was and it worked. After 18 months the series had been downloaded close to 3 million times. I had managed to post a weekly episode for 18 months entirely on my own, believe me, that took some work. I loved it but it was exhausting keeping the flow going.
In early 2010 I got a directors account on YouTube and started putting them up there too. I now wish I had been able to do that from the start as I now put big hefty HD versions of the show on YouTube and more people are slowly finding it and using that.
Then in the summer of 2010 we started to record the TV versions for Dave, I knew I couldn’t keep up the regular weekly releases so I had to let it stop.
The most important lesson I have learned about online media is making sure you have a new show every week. It makes a huge difference. The word spreads quickly, people subscribe to the feed either through iTunes or an RSS feed and the numbers of downloads each week constantly increases.
Now my plan is to mix and match, some full length episodes from the Dave series, some newly recorded episodes, or ‘old school’ carpool.
New shows are released every Friday.
Here are some of the people coming up, not in any order
Tim Minchin
Jeremy Hardy
Craig Charles
Bob Burnquist (skate board champion, amazing bloke)
This is something I've been meaning to do for ages. Here are the simple facts.
Last year UKTV (better known as Dave) commissioned 10 new episodes of the carpool podcast I've been running for the past 2 years on www.llewtube.com.
Each new 30 minute episode features two people, but we recorded much more than the 10 to 12 minutes we could use for the broadcast version.
The full length versions will all be released on www.llewtube.com and iTunes and non iTunes RSS feeds and YouTube.com/carpooluk starting on Friday 7th Jan 2011. If you subscribe to either iTunes or the RSS feed you will get them automatically.
They will all be free and available anywhere on the surface of the planet which has an internet connection
www.llewtube.com has all the links to the various feeds.
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 7:47PM 