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
- Oct 10: Blubrry published its stats report for August. The share of Apple Podcasts downloads on the platform dropped to a new low, from 56% in January to 47.3%. Buzzsprout also reported a three-year Apple low for September, and Libsyn has similarly reported an all-time low for Apple Podcasts in August’s numbers.
- Oct 9: Another month, another new low for Apple Podcasts, according to September numbers from Libsyn: the app is now delivering 45.9% of all downloads. This time last year, it was 66%.
- Oct 4: There’s a bug in Apple Podcasts in iOS 18, which is marking shows as “played” when the user hasn’t, actually, played them.
- Oct 3: Apple Podcasts has expanded its transcripts to now include a further eight languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch. Apple Podcasts can now also detect when more than one language is spoken in an episode. The company says that more than 80 million episodes have transcripts. Creators who prefer to provide their own transcripts can do so through RSS using a supporting podcast host.
- Oct 2: Series shows make up the majority of the most-shared and top new shows each year, says Apple Podcasts, which has launched a new chart, for Series. The chart is available “with iOS 18” in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, and United Kingdom. (It also shows up on Mac OS 15.0). The company’s advice if you want to appear in this chart is to, among other things, mark your show as Serial, use Episode and Season tags, submit Full Page Show Art, and include a trailer. The company is also to “celebrate one series each month” in a feature called Series Essentials. - the first is Ghost Story, which was first released in October 2023.
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