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
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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
- Oct 9: Ted Hossman from Apple Podcasts talked HLS at the IETF HLS day - particularly around interstitial advertising. "We don't allow for skip restrictions in the ads", he clarifies, and shows a neat way to stop listeners hearing "we'll take a break" if there aren't any sold ads in that break. He also announced HLS for Apple Podcasts documentation has been added to the Apple developer website. He is also the owner of the clickiest button for his slides that we've ever heard.
- Oct 8:
May we have your help? While Apple Podcasts ratings and reviews don't affect the charts, they do affect traffic estimates from other companies. Could we have a decent rating or review for our daily and/or weekly shows in Apple Podcasts? (Our weekly show is even in video now!) We'd be very grateful. Thank you._
- Oct 7: Apple Podcasts has published its 2026 edition of Creators We Love in Australia. The list is made to celebrate and spotlight the trailblazing Australian voices who bring Apple Podcasts to life. Apple Podcasts describe this year’s cohort as delivering "endless entertainment, mind-expanding education and deep community for their audiences". Shows are the ABC's All In The Mind, Mamamia's Mamamia Out Loud, Dyl & Friends from Clubby Sports, Steph and Laura from Shameless, and the indie show Pop Culture Parenting.
- Oct 5: After we revealed that Apple Podcasts has dropped country-specific editorial in favour of an algorithmic selection, today we carry one example that shows the difference: it was National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada last week. Unlike in March 2025, when Apple Podcasts ran a "Made in Canada" initiative, last week only one indigenous-made podcast was promoted by Apple Podcasts in Canada: from the not-entirely-unknown CBC.
- Oct 2: Apple Podcasts has always had an impressive set of region-specific editorial content, ensuring that locally-made shows, among other relevant podcasts, have been promoted to audiences. Until now. Podnews has learnt from multiple sources - amid increasing industry frustration - that Apple Podcasts is no longer showing a country-based editorially-curated view to users in the "Home" and "New" sections in the Apple Podcasts app. Instead, Apple is showing an algorithmic view for each user, designed to follow what the company calls user types: and no longer containing content that has been targeted by country.
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