Apple Podcasts
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Apple Podcasts is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012. The app was later pre-installed with iOS beginning October 2014. The Apple Podcasts directory features more than two million shows. Apple Podcasts is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, CarPlay, Microsoft Windows operating systems, and on Amazon Alexa devices. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
Owned by: Apple
Latest news
- May 14: Acquired was #1 in Apple Podcasts yesterday. The Transistor-hosted show was featured in the Wall Street Journal, and gets over 500,000 downloads an episode according to the story, which discusses how much they charge for sponsorship and how much the back catalogue is responsible for downloads.
- May 13: Choosing the Best Fiction Podcast App: A Guide for New Listeners has just been published by Evo Terra’s The End. Apple Podcasts is the best app for fiction podcast listening, he suggests.
- May 9:
Mumbler, a podcast hosting and monetisation platform, has launched full support of transcripts. The transcripts, in 85 languages, are visible in apps like Apple Podcasts and PodcastAddict, and uses the Podcasting2.0
podcast:transcript
standard. - May 8: In brief: Libsyn reports that Apple Podcasts has dipped below 50% for the first time for shows it hosts ... Global has partnered with Lucky 17; Global will co-produce and market the production studio’s shows ... Blue Wire has added a number of athlete-led shows to its slate ... and, Elon Musk listens to podcasts “about the fall of civilizations“ to fall asleep.
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