Pocket Casts
Address: 60 29th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Website: pocketcasts.com
Owned by: Automattic
Latest news
- Apr 17: What new podcast features are creators using? Our sister publication the Podcast Business Journal now has updated numbers from Podcast Index. Over 30,000 podcasts have “super-chapters”, the more detailed chapter format that Pocket Casts has just rolled out support for.
- Apr 15: Does anyone pay for podcast apps? How many subscribers has podcast app Pocket Casts got? The answer, they tell us: over 50,000.
- Apr 10: Pocket Casts appears to be looking at supporting websub, according to John Spurlock. We’ve written about websub, which is used to indicate to podcast directories that an RSS feed has just been updated (and its Podcasting 2.0 cousin, podping).
- Apr 5: New feature: if your podcast app understands an OPML feed, this is for you. Every page with a list of podcasts, like The Ambies winners or Edison Podcast Metrics top 25 for the UK for example, now comes with an OPML feed so you can import all those shows straight into your podcast player. Find the OPML feed linked at the bottom of the page: they work with Pocket Casts, AntennaPod, Overcast, Podbean, Castro, GoodPods and more.
- Apr 2: Pocket Casts is readying support for Podcasting 2.0’s JSON chapters - which let you edit chapters independently of the audio file. The Android app’s latest release candidate has the new feature enabled.
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