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November 6, 2023:
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Gareth Williams was a child prodigy - and a codebreaker for the British, working with GCHQ and MI6. But, in summer 2010, he was found dead - his naked body inside a bag, in his bath, in his apartment. No fingerprints were found; and 13 years on, it's still a mystery what happened. From BBC Wales, Death of a Codebreaker looks into the story; it's new today.
November 7, 2022:
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Breaker co-founder Leah Culver, who's recently been working on Twitter Spaces, is still at Twitter; though she's offering to help people hiring. Kimberly Le, the product designer of Twitter Spaces is, however, out. Or perhaps she might not be: Twitter is apparently asking people it laid off to please come back.
October 31, 2022:
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Twitter employee Leah Culver, the co-founder of the Breaker podcast app, has pictured herself holding the source code of part of Twitter Spaces, following an apparent order by Twitter's new owner Elon Musk to print out all the code for a code review with Musk himself. There are rumours that blue-ticked users will be forced to pay $20 per month to keep the verification tag.
June 1, 2022:
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More oldest podcast guest info: An honourable mention to Out of the Box from FBi Radio, which in 2014, interviewed Eileen Kramer (aged 99 at the time). Now aged 107, Eileen is still with us, and has a book to sell, so if you wanted to be a record-breaker, you only have to get her onto your podcast...
April 21, 2022:
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From Acast: Anna Faris Is Unqualified promises "relationship advice from completely unqualified Hollywood types". David Duchovny was a recent guest, talking about the movie they recently finished together, being intimidated by raw talent, his love of music, the challenges of writing, dealbreakers, what defines a good kiss, words to live by and much more.
February 22, 2022:
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Maple Media's PlayerFM and Breaker suffered server issues. Meanwhile on Spotify, Joe Rogan's podcast has mysteriously disappeared twice; we suspect it's just a glitch.
February 1, 2022:
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Link to the Breaker podcast app on your website? Check they still work. The app was acquired by Maple Media a year ago; as of today, no Breaker links to podcasts work on the service, and the Breaker website forwards to Player FM. The app's still listed in the app stores, though; it now appears to be a blue-skinned version of the Player FM app.
November 16, 2021:
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The latest episode of Bletchley Park, a look into the World War II codebreaking unit many credit for winning the war, focuses on the codebreaking unit that read Italian naval messages. The grandmother of Podnews's Editor was one of those codebreakers.
April 27, 2021:
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Oooh, you're in trouble is back for a new season later this week: a podcast for 9-13 year-olds, it says that sometimes it's okay to break the rules, with true stories of rebels and rule-breakers.
February 15, 2021:
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Here's a good post about how Breaker skips silences in their iOS app.
January 27, 2021:
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dotLA looks at LA startups trying to fix podcasting's discovery problem, including GoodPods and Maple Media's Breaker.
January 12, 2021:
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Social podcast app Breaker is not to close after all. The app has been acquired by Maple Media, an LA-based publisher, which already owns Player FM and Podkicker. The Breaker team will still be joining Twitter.
January 11, 2021:
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Feedback comes in saying: "You mentioned Stitch Please, so one day you’ll mention the Aussie sewing podcast Sew Organised Style created by one woman for 3 established sewing communities!" So we will.
January 5, 2021:
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The Breaker team is to join Twitter. CTO Leah Culver, Designer Emma Lundin and CEO Erik Berlin are "joining Twitter because we believe in the future of audio communication and are inspired by the ways Twitter is facilitating public conversations for people around the world".
November 16, 2020:
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Podcast host Fireside has added support to get podcasts into Amazon Music, and has added an option for a Breaker listen badge, too.
August 31, 2020:
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The next version of Overcast, the world's third biggest podcast app, will remove one way for podcasters to earn revenue, and highlight another as a concern. A new "privacy screen" in the app's latest beta release adds a brightly-coloured warning alert for any podcast that may earn revenue from dynamic advertising and geolocation. And for smaller podcasters, the "donate" button, launched in August 2018 by the app's developer, Marco Arment, will be removed "because nobody used it and it’s not worth today’s app-review risk", he writes - referring to Apple's notoriously strict app approval process. The donate button is also in apps from Breaker, RadioPublic, PodcastAddict, Castro, and our own podcast pages. (From Sounds Profitable, here's more about how geolocation works in podcasting).
June 19, 2020:
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The Apple Podcasts app is to get personalised recommendations, according to a leak. Also apparently coming: "the option for podcast creators to offer bonus content" and "new user profiles may allow you to follow friends and see what podcasts they’re listening to," a feature similar to Breaker or Swoot.
March 11, 2020:
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Social podcasting app Breaker has launched on Android, with a way of adding comments and reactions, Google signin, and a new look.
February 7, 2020:
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Posta, the "number one podcast producer in Argentina", has done a deal with airline LATAM to get its podcasts into their in-flight entertainment systems. LATAM is now 20% owned by Delta Airways, who have also added podcasts to their seatbacks.
January 21, 2020:
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Social podcast app Breaker launches a redesign on iOS today, called Breaker 1.0. The new app (previous versions of Breaker made it to 0.9.21) features a simplified navigation, episode discovery, and a way of using it without an account.
December 13, 2019:
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Breaker has published a top 100 episodes list for 2019: compiled by listens, likes and comments on the Breaker platform. Joe Rogan is #1 for his interview with Naval Ravikant. (Podnews is on Breaker).
September 19, 2019:
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Breaker, a social podcast app, is now available for Android users in beta. It will import your subscriptions from other podcast apps, and is free. Here it is on Android, and on iOS. Listen to Podnews in Breaker.
August 2, 2019:
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Social podcast app Breaker is beta-testing on Android. AndroidPolice get a sneak preview. (Thought: with Swoot, Breaker, and at least one other 'social' podcast app we're aware of in the works, any chance of a shared social graph between them?)
July 19, 2019:
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Tweaks for apps and services include podcast app Breaker, which is adding integration with Bullet to produce shareable audio clips for social media; the Pocket Casts app is advertising in WNYC Studios podcasts (thanks, Kristofor!); podcast host Spreaker's trim and crop tool has been improved; remote recording service Squadcast suggests that it will soon be supported on iOS and iPadOS; and Dropbox now has integrations with transcription services.
July 16, 2019:
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Code Story looks at how a startup goes from an idea on the back of a napkin to a product. The latest episode features Leah Culver from Breaker, a popular podcast app.
May 16, 2019:
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Breaker, a podcast app, has added custom playlists.
December 20, 2018:
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Podcast app Breaker has produced a list of the top podcast episodes of 2018, "ranked by the number of likes by Breaker users". How I Built This appears six times.
October 29, 2018:
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Meanwhile, podcast app Breaker has added a dark mode, "just in time for Halloween".
October 17, 2018:
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Chartable focus on how spammers are targeting the Apple Podcast Charts, including a useful guide on how to spot a fake:
September 28, 2018:
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Breaker now supports chapter marks.
September 13, 2018:
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In an open letter to all podcast apps, in early August, Jerod Santo notes that Overcast gives the total subscriber count every time it checks your RSS feed: and asks for other podcast apps to do the same. Many apps have already started to do this. (We're seeing Feedbin, Breaker, Overcast and Newsblur in our logs). Seems like a nice idea.
August 17, 2018:
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Anchor's Listener Support (Aug 10) is now natively supported in podcast apps, the company has just announced. "Support on Anchor" buttons are now visible in versions of Breaker and RadioPublic, with support from Castro and Podcast Addict promised shortly. Podnews also already supports Anchor's Listener Support links - here's an example. Anchor is also marking up these links using the
rel="payment" pattern so they'll be visible in a future release of Overcast.
August 7, 2018:
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iOS podcast app Breaker launches Breaker Upstream, "the first open marketplace for podcasters to sell their premium content directly to listeners". The new feature allows podcasters to offer premium podcasts and episodes for purchase inside the Breaker app alongside their existing free content.
June 13, 2018:
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Podcast app Breaker highlights how their machine-learning algorithm works to recommend you new podcasts.
April 30, 2018:
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Podcast app Breaker blogs about its app redesign; while podcast search engine Listen Notes shares a postmortem on a short outage.
April 11, 2018:
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The Verge think Spotify is to unveil a car music player in an event later this month.
March 12, 2018:
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Our podcast play pages (highlighted here with a play icon) now also have a link to subscribe within iOS app Breaker the social podcast app. If you have an app which lets you subscribe with a URL scheme, we'd love to add you; let us know how the scheme works, and also give us a square icon in SVG format.
August 22, 2017:
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The Google Home smart speaker is apparently going to have a little sister, like the Amazon Echo Dot. Also, Google released a new version of Android today, 8.0, though you can only get it on Pixel devices for now. (Upgrades are staged, but you can apparently force it by enrolling for beta, which actually gets you the final public build. We did that and it works). No additional podcasting functionality, but apparently much better Bluetooth.