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
- Sep 8:
Exclusive: Apple Podcasts is getting ready to support the Podcasting 2.0 JSON chapters feature. The company quietly added documentation for
podcast:chaptersto its RSS specification page, but appears to have removed it again over the weekend, once it was noticed on social media. Here’s what it looked like. The tool, dubbed “super chapters” by some, includes “time-synced images and links”, as well as allowing podcasters to change and add to chapters without changing the audio file. - Sep 4: Is your podcast available in China? We help you understand how Apple Podcasts, and other podcast apps, work in the country.
- Sep 3: If you combine advertising on both podcasts and streaming audio, you can reach 85% of all US listeners, according to Podscribe’s Q2/25 Performance Benchmark Report. The data also says that iPhone users convert 30% better than Android users - with Apple Podcasts being the leading app for visitor and conversion rates.
- Sep 2: Buzzsprout’s network stats for August show a drop for Spotify year-on-year of 3.1%. However, those figures don’t include video played on Spotify. Apple Podcasts continues to lead in terms of downloads, at 37.1%.
- Aug 29: Just a few weeks until the new Apple Podcasts app is released alongside iOS 26. MacRumours has helpfully done our job for us to explain what’s new. The new “enhance dialogue” feature is worth exploring.
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