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April 2, 2024:
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Pocket Casts is readying support for Podcasting 2.0’s JSON chapters - which let you edit chapters independently of the audio file. The Android app’s latest release candidate has the new feature enabled.
March 1, 2024:
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The owner of Pocket Casts, Automattic, is to sell data from posts on Wordpress and Tumblr to train AI tools, 404 Media has reported. Sites will need to opt out.
December 13, 2023:
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Popular podcast app Pocket Casts has added a bookmarks feature, letting premium users mark those parts of podcasts they want to come back to later. You can add bookmarks from the app or directly through your headphones. The Android app is also to display episode artwork in more places.
November 27, 2023:
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Apostrophes shouldn't matter for podcast search. Pocket Casts appears to need an apostrophe typed in exactly, otherwise it won't find a show. We've reported it as a bug; but the name of the show is a good edge-case for testing.
December 5, 2022:
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Pocket Casts released v7.27 last week, which appears to contain the AVURLAssetHTTPUserAgentKey fix, so it no longer calls itself AppleCoreMedia. We've confirmed (by listening to PodClock's S1E1 episode) that it now correctly calls itself Pocket Casts when playing on-demand shows.
November 7, 2022:
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Will Pocket Casts beat Apple Podcasts in adding a correct useragent for all podcast requests? Now it's open source, John Spurlock submitted a pull request adding the correct useragent code, which has been accepted and will be in Pocket Casts later this month. Disappointingly, Apple Podcasts itself has yet to implement the company's own code, introduced for iOS 16.
April 29, 2022:
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Want more people to know about your podcast? Pocket Casts sends out a regular newsletter to podcast creators, highlighting how to get featured in the popular podcast app. Here's the latest edition, and here's where to sign up for it. The company was bought by Automattic last year, and say they are "working on a rather large update at the moment".
July 19, 2021:
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Podcast app (and website) Pocket Casts has been bought by Automattic, the owners of Wordpress and Tumblr. No terms were given; co-founders Russell Ivanovic and Philip Simpson, based in Adelaide SA, Australia, will continue to lead Pocket Casts as part of Automattic; WordPress says "we will explore building deep integrations with WordPress.com and Pocket Casts", which might mean they have aspirations as a podcast hosting company. (They understand RSS after all).
July 5, 2021:
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Podcast host Castos has raised $756,000 in funding from investors including Automattic, the owners of Wordpress.
May 16, 2019:
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Distributed is a new podcast from Matt Mullenweg, the cofounder of Wordpress and CEO of Automattic. About the future of work, the podcast explores ideas of going beyond the traditional office environment.
August 22, 2018:
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Wordpress are the latest investor in RadioPublic, through Wordpress's parent company, Automattic.