The new app allows you to play podcasts without subscribing, so you can sample episodes without having to commit to a series.
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The app also includes episode search that lets you search within any series to find specific episodes, and it has filters to organize podcasts and fit them into playlists. The company is introducing new podcast curation, both by humans and algorithm. Podcast listening isn’t time-sensitive, so you can easily afford waiting a day to listen to a new episode. On Wednesday, Pocket Casts said that the new app integrates Siri shortcuts, so you can ask Apple's digital assistant to launch the show of your choice. Another thing to remember is that Pocket Casts allows you to manually add podcasts to a specific playlist, so you can create a tailored playlist with only a few episodes from different subscriptions. Combined, the new owners are responsible for more than 210 million podcast downloads every month. A really, really good audio player - the skip-silence and the voice-boost is light-years ahead of anything that anyone else has produced (with the possible exception of Overcast, but I don't use it enough to know) 2. Pocket Casts was bought this year by public-radio heavyweights NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ and This American Life, and they put Grover, a vet of iHeartRadio, in charge. To me, it has two unbeatable features: 1. deserve a listening experience that's easy to use, powerful and flexible," he said in a statement. Pocket Casts CEO Owen Grover argues that one of podcasting's liabilities has been the hurdles you have to jump to find programs you like if you aren't already a podcast superfan. But podcasting defenders describe those setbacks as aberrations, noting that other companies are betting on the durability of podcasts, including Spotify, iHeartRadio and Pandora. In a string of gut punches, BuzzFeed laid off its in-house audio team in September, podcast network Panoply eliminated its editorial division and Amazon-owned audiobook company Audible slashed its podcastlike original programming unit. In recent months, podcasting as a format has seemed like a bubble that may have popped.
It's a coming-out party for the podcast app taken over by a group of public radio giants earlier this year. Podcast app Pocket Casts relaunched Wednesday with an overhauled app and a mission to make podcasts less awful to discover.
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