Original 7/16: Australian-based Pocket Casts was purchased by top podcast producers NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life in May 2018 to “ public radio’s leading role as an innovator in audio discovery and distribution, while ensuring the continued support and growth of one of the most popular listening platforms on the market.” However, it emerged that NPR, which owns just over a third of the service, reported that its share lost $812,129 in 2020. More details and answers will be made available “over the coming weeks.”
This is a bright new chapter for us where we can focus on what we do best, bringing you the best possible podcasting experience we can. Update 7/17: In an email to users, the Pocket Casts team says it doesn’t “expect you to notice any immediate changes to the way Pocket Casts works.” They tout this “exciting transition” as making possible a “bigger and better” app. Automattic, which is known for and bought Tumblr from Verizon in 2019, announced that its now acquiring Pocket Casts. There are loads of CarPlay related tickets already so maybe it’ll get fixed as those get mopped up.Back in January, it emerged that Pocket Casts was up for sale by its public radio consortium owners. I don’t know anything really except that vague description. I don’t know how to tell them to reproduce it.
I need to relaunch it and then scrub to where I was because it will have forgotten.īut… that’s a crappy bug report. I know that if I hear this, the app will crash within another minute or so. Once in a while, I hear a little hiccup of sound, where after about one minute of listening it’ll rewind like 2 seconds. I use Pocket Casts with CarPlay every day of my life. No small job to ready to a codebase for untold public eyeballs. Took them just over a year, which feels about right to me. Friggin wildcard acquisition right? Although Matt has said:Īutomattic is structured a bit like a holding company. I like to think of us as like Berkshire Hathaway with a common digital platform, is definitely what we aspire to.Īutomattic is all about open source, so it was cool to see Pocket Casts go open source. It was July 2021 when Automattic bought it. I’ve used Pocket Casts as my preferred podcast app for… I dunno a long time I don’t really remember using anything else.
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