Al otro lado del micrófono · Jorge Marín Nieto

Feedback marzo 2026: comentarios y reflexiones del mes

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A listener explains why leaving podcast feedback is harder than commenting on YouTube videos.

1. Al otro lado del micrófono, Jorge Marín's daily metapodcast from EOB Productora, publishes its only episode of the week on April 1, 2026, dedicated to reviewing March 2026 listener feedback. 2. Jorge Marín hosts alone, recording with a cold contracted at the La Pódcast Madrid event on Saturday, March 28, where he had also broadcast live and attended a dinner discussion about podcasting. 3. The episode's core function is to read, contextualize and respond to listener comments received across dozens of episodes during February and March 2026. 4. Jorge opens by thanking monthly coffee supporters by name, including Alan from Chiquiátrico, José from Frente El Cliente, Ayo Friqui from Los Viejos Friquis Nunca Mueren, and about fifteen others. 5. Listener Víctor Manuel Palomares posted on iVoox praising podcasts that read listener comments aloud, listing ten shows by name including Popaina, Ukelele Trombón and Radio Morgue. 6. Listener José from Frente El Cliente sent an audio memo arguing that podcast feedback is rare because listening happens in apps like Podcast Addict that require switching to Telegram or email to reply, unlike YouTube where the viewer and the comment box are in the same session. 7. José also notes that most podcast listening happens during driving — he uses Android Auto — or cooking or walking, contexts where writing a comment is physically inconvenient, unlike passive seated YouTube viewing. 8. Jorge agrees with José, noting he had received only four to ten comments per month before systematically reading feedback on-air, and now receives thirty to fifty comments per episode cycle. 9. On the topic of podcast ad conversion, Jorge reveals that his 175-listener episode average has generated approximately 20 monthly coffee subscribers, which he estimates as roughly 10% conversion — far above the 1% benchmark marketing experts cite for digital formats. 10. Kitsune on Blue Sky asked what percentage of podcast listeners actually buy advertised products after hearing a host-read ad, and Jorge responds that host-read podcast conversions are estimated at five to ten times higher than the 1% standard. 11. Listener Vicente Ortiz on iVoox complained that radio stations upload programs to podcast platforms without removing informational bulletins and ads, making it harder to skip than a native podcast insertion. 12. Kitsune commented on the clip debate episode that the only podcast clips she encounters at scale are from shows with large marketing budgets doing sustained campaigns on short-form video platforms. 13. Malena Mangas on LinkedIn said she discovered many podcasts she now listens to through TikTok clips, prompting Jorge to ask listeners how they discover new podcasts if not through clips. 14. San Saez on Twitter criticized auto-generated subtitles on video podcasts that are never corrected, comparing them to banner ads that viewers learn to ignore. 15. Vicente Ortiz on Telegram linked the vanity and ego culture in social media to the 2014 Oscar selfie by Ellen DeGeneres featuring Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — the moment front-facing smartphone cameras became the default for recording. 16. Jorge expands on this: the Oscar selfie went viral, popularized the selfie format among influencers, and gradually shifted the frame of video from what people were experiencing to themselves experiencing it, which vertical video platform algorithms later amplified. 17. David Marzal on Mastodon called OP3, the open podcast statistics prefix, a 'cotton test for hosting trust': if a hosting service blocks users from adding OP3, its download statistics should not be trusted. 18. Jorge reports that Spotify for Podcasters does not support OP3 prefixes, but Megaphone, Spotify's paid hosting tier, does offer this option. 19. Multiple listeners commented on an episode about a bad sponsor experience, with Vicente Ortiz on Blue Sky writing 'burn those bastards' and Kitsune saying 'it pisses me off yes' about brands that demand exposure then refuse to pay. 20. Jorge closes by noting he has had to stop recording multiple times during the episode due to his cold, and invites April listeners to leave comments on the project website at alotroladodelmicrófono.com.

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