Apple Podcasts
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Apple Podcasts is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple 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
About Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts is the world’s premier destination for podcast discovery and listening. It provides the best experience for listeners to explore millions of shows on every imaginable topic and to directly support the creators behind them. For fans looking to deepen their connection with their favorite podcasts, Apple Podcasts also offers thousands of premium subscriptions with benefits like exclusive content and ad-free listening. The entire library is available for free, and is seamlessly integrated across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay, and on the web at https://podcasts.apple.com.
Latest news
- Mar 16:
More video is coming. At Podcast Movement Evolutions at SXSW, Stacey Goers and Jake Shapiro from Apple Podcasts announced a number of new podcast hosting partners for the upcoming Apple Podcasts HLS video feature. Transistor, Audiomeans, PodBean, Captivate, RSS
.com and Podigee are all soon to support HLS video on Apple Podcasts. The companies join Acast, Omny Studio, ART19 and Simplecast. - Mar 12: Bryan Barletta writes a piece about Apple Podcasts’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for Sounds Profitable. It goes into the technical specifics of delivering advertising for episodes using video in Apple Podcasts (which always plays even if the listener has chosen audio-only).
- Mar 11: "Apple Podcasts will launch a new experience for video that is redefining the podcast industry, and we are looking to hire an audience-minded and innovative expert with genuine video expertise to help inform and editorialize our new video podcast offering.” - a job at Apple in California
- Mar 10: Got an Android phone, but curious what your show looks like in Apple Podcasts? You can install Apple Podcasts on Android. Here’s how.
- Mar 9: Apple Podcasts was launched as an app on iPhone in June 2012. It wasn’t the first podcast app - and there was one that was launched three years earlier: with some features that we take for granted today. That app was Google Listen, the first podcast app experiment by Google. In a new article today as part of our history collection, we unveil the v2 design that was never launched, its inevitable pivot to video, and the astonishing engagement figures that the app got - even if that didn’t save it from the Google graveyard.
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