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. In 2024 does not support opus. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
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Latest news
- Jun 12:
If you host your podcast with Spotify for Creators, Spotify now supports publishing those transcripts using open RSS standards - using the Podcasting 2.0
podcast:transcripttag, which is compatible with Apple Podcasts, Pocketcasts, and other apps. Creators will have to opt-in to make them available. It’s the first time that Spotify has supported a new, open, RSS feature like this. So - we thought we’d publish a special show on Spotify for Creators as a test, and while the RSS feed includes the new podcast namespace, sadly transcripts haven’t yet been enabled for our show. But let’s wait and see. - 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”.
- Jun 5: Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, which was removed from Spotify after he called for Dr Anthony Fauci’s beheading, is back on the platform after an almost five year ban. The show had remained on Apple Podcasts and the Podcast Index. It self-hosts. (Apple is now able to remove specific episodes from its directory; it wasn’t in 2020).
- Jun 4: Apple Podcasts released a new set of pages explaining how to produce their in-app artwork for your show, which can make your shows shine in the Apple Podcasts app. There’s now a template library, and a partnership with Canva to make it simple. There’s also details about host and guest images for the app. Many of these enhancements were only available for the big shows.
- Jun 2: Data from Transistor matched this trend, with an increase for Spotify and a decrease for Apple Podcasts.
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