Pocket Casts
Address: 
60 29th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Website: pocketcasts.com
Owned by: Automattic
Latest news
- Mar 20: Just over a year ago, Pocket Casts partnered with Slumber Studios for a free first year’s subscription to their service. Some users on Reddit have been taken by surprise by a renewal payment being taken. Pocket Casts has told Podnews that users gave payment details directly to Slumber Studios when claiming the offer, and it was clear that users would be charged after the first year; an email was recently sent by Supercast, the operator of Slumber Studios premium subscription, with details of the upcoming fee; and Pocket Casts has also added help on how to cancel.
- Mar 18:
Pocket Casts appears to be considering generating its own transcripts for its app. Part of the release notes for the forthcoming v7.85 of the app adds a “remote feature flag for generated transcripts”, allowing that feature to be turned on later. The app currently supports creator-made transcripts, using the
podcast:transcripttag. - Mar 12: Pocket Casts has opened its web player to everyone. You don’t need an account to listen - here’s our daily podcast to try it out. You can also download Mac and Windows desktop apps, too - and if you sign in, you can rate shows and store your favourites, and keep tabs of what you’ve listened-to (which syncs to the app, too). Until now, it was behind a paywall, and only available to Pocket Casts Plus users.
- Jan 20: Pocket Casts v7.8 adds support for podcast descriptions that contain HTML.
- Jan 13: Substack, which announced a partnership with Spotify in April last year, is now promoting its Spotify integration on the Substack dashboard. The service also has integrations with Apple, YouTube Music, “Youtube Podcasts”, Pocket Casts and Overcast; but this is the first time that our Podnews reader who spotted this has seen them actively promote it.
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