Platform coverage
The percentage of distribution platforms that receive a fully-rendered, native-format release pack per episode.
Apple Podcasts wants chapter markers via PSC tags. Spotify wants its own metadata format. YouTube wants a video render. Substack wants the newsletter formatted right. A studio achieves 100% platform coverage when every episode ships fully-rendered to every supported platform; in practice most studios run 60–80% coverage because the marginal artifact (vertical clips, newsletter) doesn't get built on busy weeks.
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Workflow
Release pack
The full set of artifacts produced per episode (transcript, chapters, show notes, social cuts, etc.) bundled as one release object.
Distribution
Distribution debt
The accumulated set of distribution opportunities (platforms, formats, derivative content) that should ship per episode but don't.
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.
Podcast operations