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, visionOS, Microsoft Windows operating systems, web browsers, and on Amazon Alexa devices. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
Owned by: Apple
Latest news
- Nov 19: Apple Podcasts released a set of rankings for the most popular shows in each country - showing the “top shows” (based on listenership), “top new shows” that first published in 2025, “most followed shows”, “most shared shows”, and “top channels”. You can see your country’s chart here.
- Nov 14: Want a peek at ours? For the Podnews Weekly Review, you can see a significant jump in new audience when we had Jeanine Wright from Inception Point AI on (Sep 26), and we’re seeing more new audience on Apple Podcasts recently. Apple Podcasts listeners are more loyal, too; but Spotify’s slowly creeping up. And here’s our overview.
- Nov 12: Using Android? Wondered what Apple Podcasts is showing for your transcript, and what timed links it’s picked out for your show? It turns out that Apple Podcasts Connect can now show you, like this. To find this view, log into Apple Podcasts Connect, choose “Episodes” for your show, click into the episode, and finally click the bit marked “Audio and transcripts”.
- Nov 10: Paid, ad-free, podcast episodes on the Apple Podcasts app don’t get separate chapters, notes Inc’s Jason Aten, which “literally makes the paid version of a show worse”.
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