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    Distribution debt

    The accumulated set of distribution opportunities (platforms, formats, derivative content) that should ship per episode but don't.

    Modeled after engineering's 'technical debt' but for release operations. Each episode that ships without a transcript published to your web property is a deposit of debt — the SEO surface that could exist doesn't. Each episode without vertical clips is more debt. Distribution debt compounds: the back catalog gets less searchable, the social presence gets thinner, the upstream traffic to new episodes erodes. Healthy studios actively pay down distribution debt by re-rendering back catalog.

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    Platform coverage

    The percentage of distribution platforms that receive a fully-rendered, native-format release pack per episode.

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    Backfill

    Retroactively producing missing artifacts (transcripts, chapters, social cuts) for previously-published episodes.

    This term is part of the EpisodeOps Operations Reference — a vocabulary for podcast operators (production managers, agency owners, network ops leads). For the broader picture, read the podcast-operations manifesto.

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