Pocket Casts
Address: 
60 29th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Website: pocketcasts.com
Owned by: Automattic
Latest news
- Jun 20: Pocket Casts has added transcripts to its web player. “Some podcasts include their own transcripts which are available to all users. And if they don’t, as a Plus or Patron subscriber, you have access to auto-generated transcripts!” Here is an example from our daily update, showing named voices.
- Jun 17:
As Pocket Casts moves to support “podroll”, creator-led podcast recommendations, joining podcast hosting companies like Buzzsprout, Blubrry, Transistor and RSS
.com, we thought we’d take a look at who, so far, are the most recommended podcasts by creators. - Jun 10: Apple Podcasts will add a new “enhance dialogue” feature in playback, just like independent apps like Overcast and Pocket Casts have had for some time. The description is “Amplify just the voices in an episode for clearer listening”.
- May 30: In the week that Pocket Casts added support for creator recommendations through open RSS using
podcast:podroll, Spotify has launched its own proprietary creator recommendation tool, which they call “linked content”.
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