Apple to make its own exclusive podcasts

Apple to make its own exclusive podcasts

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  • Apple plans to make its own exclusive podcasts. Bloomberg reports that Apple has “reached out to media companies to discuss buying exclusive rights to podcasts”. It’s initially unclear what this means for the iTunes API that many other podcast apps use, or, indeed, for Android users.

    • For an indication as to how important podcasting is for competitor Spotify’s investors, their stock price fell by 3% following the news.

    • This link is no longer available, as at Aug 15 2023
  • The folks behind Single File have released their podcast as… a cassette. In the comments, we learn many others have been released as a “USB tape”, a USB key that looks like a cassette.


    Aug 15 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • US sports network ESPN is to launch a morning podcast; it’s to start in early October. The company have also said that their podcast users have grown 10% year-on-year.

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