![]() take hours before Pocketcast gets it for downloading. Automattic, owner of Tumblr and, buys podcast app Pocket Casts - The Verge. NPR, This American Life, WNYC Studios and WBEZ Chicago have teamed up to buy Pocket Casts, a cross-platform podcast app. This is the place to discuss Pocket Casts. The public radio outlets hope to improve the podcast discovery experience, help creators find new audiences and improve insights for producers. Pocket Casts' discover section currently highlights featured, trending and popular shows. The app also includes an Up Next function, which can automatically build a podcast queue for you.ĭeveloper Shifty Jelly said in a blog post while it had received previous offers from other suitors, it had turned them all down. It accepted the group's offer because "everything from their not-for-profit mission focus, to their unwavering belief that open and collaborative wins over closed walled gardens resonated deeply with us." The developer hammered home the point that nothing is immediately changing in the app. Instead, it's using its new resources to improve Pocket Casts. Pocket Casts initially went up for sale in January after its board of public media members voted to do so. Shifty Jelly's team will continue working on the app, with former iHeartRadio and Clear Channel vice president Owen Grover joining as Pocket Casts CEO. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. There's no real indication that the NPR group will use Pocket Casts as their exclusive podcast home - they are in public radio, after all, and Pocket Casts is a paid app. The app was previously owned by NPR, but was known to be losing money. It’s been well-received, particularly from sites like The Verge, because it’s. NPR has its own app, NPR One, and still distributes its podcasts through other apps and platforms. Popular podcast listening app Pocket Casts has been bought by Automattic, the company behind and Tumblr. Pocket Casts launched in 2010 and sold to NPR and a group of other public media groups eight years later. ![]() Shifty Jelly hinted at some future plans for Pocket Casts. It may be the case that some of NPR One's features are rolled in, such as letting the app know when you like a story on its personalized stream and skipping the ones you're less interested in. ![]()
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