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For many years, Apple iTunes was the reigning king of the podcast platforms. Apple made some attempt to center podcasts again when it cut podcasting out of iTunes and launched Apple Podcasts in 2012.
A podcast client, podcatcher, or podcast app, is a computer program or mobile app used to stream or download podcasts, via an RSS or XML feed. [1] [2] [3]While podcast clients are best known for streaming and downloading audio podcasts, many can also download video podcasts, newsfeeds, text, and pictures.
Apple Podcasts (known as simply Podcasts in Apple operating systems) is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012.
The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback. Multi-media players designed for video ...
Stitcher. Stitcher was a media company that specialized in the creation, distribution, and monetization of podcasts. [ 1] Stitcher created original shows through networks such as Earwolf and Witness Docs. Stitcher provided ad sales and distribution services to 300+ shows. Stitcher was home to one of the largest podcast listening apps.
Arment was also the Chief Technology Officer of Tumblr and founder of Instapaper [3] before founding Overcast, and he had created his own podcasts before launching the app. [4] In March 2023, Arment told The Vergecast how he built and maintains Overcast by himself, and that he uses ad banners promoting podcasts to cover the costs of the free app. [5]
The following is a list of on-demand music streaming services. These services offer streaming of full-length content via the Internet as a part of their service, [1] without the listener necessarily having to purchase a file for download. [2] This type of service is somewhat similar to Internet radio. Many of these sites have advertising that ...
Castbox is an app that distributes free podcasts. By 2019, one million podcasts had been made available through Castbox, [ 4] including about fifty million podcast episodes. [ 1] Castbox also has a premium platform. [ 5] In June 2019, Castbox integrated with Waze, allowing playback controls to pause, skip, or restart episodes.