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, Microsoft Windows operating systems, web browsers, and on Amazon Alexa devices. In 2024 does not support opus. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
Owned by: Apple
Latest news
- Feb 21: After last year’s Podnews Report Card highlighted the difficulty of submitting a show to Apple Podcasts, Apple has fixed things - rolling out a new, streamlined, process to automatically submit a show for creators using selected podcast hosts. It removes the requirement to open an Apple account first. The launch podcast hosts are: Audioboom, Audiomeans, Ausha, Blubrry, Buzzsprout, Captivate, Castos, Hubhopper, Libsyn, Pinecast, Podbean, Podspace and Transistor.
- Feb 20: Apple Podcasts Connect is having scheduled maintenance on March 1 for up to eight hours from 6am PST. You’ll not be able to use Apple Podcasts Connect during that time.
- Feb 12: You’re probably not in Apple Podcasts in China. Here’s more help on what is available, and what isn’t.
- Feb 10: Apple Podcasts has “made a pretty huge change”, says Neal Veglio: and it’s never been more important to choose the right category for your podcast.
- Feb 3: Could Apple Podcasts regain the top spot, over Spotify? Buzzsprout’s data for January shows Apple Podcasts on its highest download numbers for ten months, and less than a million away from Spotify. Here’s a historical graph.
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