This means they can enjoy your podcast on the go and at any time. Listeners can now save individual podcast episodes to their personal library for offline playback. This means your listeners will enjoy your podcast exactly as you intended. With the smart play button, episodic shows will play automatically from the latest episode, whereas serials will start from the beginning. This means listeners can find your podcast in no time. Recent updates have optimized the Apple Podcast search tab giving quick access to the Top Charts and Categories. All of them can be subscribed to inside of Apple Podcasts.Recent changes to Apple Podcasts and what they mean for podcastersĪpple Podcasts has recently seen a number of exciting updates and additions which all aim to optimize the creator and listener experience. Spotify is one company aimed to growing its podcast market share at the expense of Apple Podcasts, so it remains to be seen what (if anything) Apple will do going forward.ĩto5Mac hosts an hour long weekly Apple news podcast called 9to5Mac Happy Hour, a short updates podcast with episodes released throughout the week called 9to5Mac Daily, and a weekly tech news podcast from the perspective of developers called Stacktrace. From a technical side, the directory in Apple Podcasts is just a collection of RSS feeds. Despite having control of the market, Apple hasn’t done much to try to profit from it. Despite it not offering all the features of third party apps, it is reported to have the high market share of any podcast app.
Over the years, the app has taken on many designs as it mimicked the overall iOS design trends. It wasn’t until 2012 that they launched the Apple Podcasts app for iPhone. Apple first introduced the world to podcasts back in 2005 by adding a podcast directory into iTunes 4.9.
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