James Cridland, editor of podcast newsletter PodNews: Podcast app Pocket Casts is looking for a buyer. NPR, which owns 34.6% of the company, reports their share of the company’s loss was $812,000: which could put the company’s net loss at more than $2m, though the company denies this.
I’ve used Pocket Casts for a long time. To me, it has two unbeatable features:
1. 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. The full Apple Podcasts catalogue (since BBC content is blocked from Google Podcasts). This isn’t unique to PocketCasts, but is one reason why I came back to it.
Sadly, those two selling points haven’t helped it in recent years. Purchased by a set of US public media companies in May 2018, and subsequently also invested-in by BBC Studios Americas, Pocket Casts has seen its market share shrink.
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