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I spoke to one podcast promoter on the phone and this is how he does the promotion: There seems to be two methods of doing this. I interviewed a half dozen podcast promoters in Bangladesh and asked them to explain step by step how it’s done. But what they’re doing is considered blackhat marketing. This skill is being passed around between friends and family members because there seems to be a growing market in podcasting. Podcast promotions has been a skill that’s being passed around in Bangladesh now.

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It’s likely a podcaster who understand the ranking algorithm, taught a freelancer in Bangladesh how to do this, and it was then passed around.

A lot of tech savvy people there under 25 are learning how to make money online by doing any work they know how to do. According to Upwork, a popular freelance site, Bangladesh is now the third largest source-country for IT freelance workers. IT freelancing is exploding in Bangladesh. While speaking with promoters from Bangladesh I got a few to send me photos of the office they work out of. None of them seem to understand why it’s popular only in Bangladesh, but they had a few clues that explain why. Why are there so many people in Bangladesh doing this? I chatted with a dozen of them, and even called 6 of them on the phone to try to learn more about this.

If you search for “iTunes podcast top rank” at you will see lots of “podcast promoters” from Bangladesh. I decided to get to the bottom of this by learning who’s behind this, how they do it, and if this is legitimate or not. There’s no doubt that people are paying their way onto the top charts now. In February, Discover Pods asked if it’s possible to game the Apple Podcast charts. This year has had a lot of rumors of chart manipulation within the tp podcasts on Apple Podcasts.