Castro
Website: castro.fm
Owned by: Tiny Capital
Latest news
- Apr 8: Podcast app Castro has released an update, including a set of bugfixes. The app is under new ownership.
- Apr 5: New feature: if your podcast app understands an OPML feed, this is for you. Every page with a list of podcasts, like The Ambies winners or Edison Podcast Metrics top 25 for the UK for example, now comes with an OPML feed so you can import all those shows straight into your podcast player. Find the OPML feed linked at the bottom of the page: they work with Pocket Casts, AntennaPod, Overcast, Podbean, Castro, GoodPods and more.
- Mar 1: The new owner of Castro is making welcome changes: every podcast with a listener is now being updated much more frequently. Under its previous owner, you might have had to wait up to 45 days (!!) for new episodes to show; every show is now being updated at least once every two hours.
- Jan 31: Exclusive: Popular iOS podcast app Castro has a new owner: Bluck Apps is an independent app studio and consulting agency based in Brooklyn NY. The company owns an Android podcast app called Aurelian, which will be “moved under the Castro umbrella”. In a blog post to be published on the Castro website today, owner Dustin Bluck says that Castro serves people who really love podcasts - those who have over 100 podcast subscriptions. The company is also responding to all support emails sent over the past few months. “Bluck Apps is very committed to the open podcasting ecosystem and taking over such a well-designed independent app is very cool for us.”
- Jan 9: Four hours after we published yesterday, the podcast app Castro finally acknowledged that its app had been down, before, a further nine hours later, announcing a fix had been put in place.
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