Once-dominant Apple Podcasts loses ground to 2 big competitors

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You replied to me but I think your comment was intended for @iPersuade but I appreciate the information nonetheless. :slightly_smiling_face:

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It was actually intended for both, but I felt weird quoting both of you so I figured I would suck you both in by replying to you and quoting him. :slight_smile:

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PocketCasts for me but also running Castro to support the new devs.

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Anecdotally, it seems like most people around my age I know (Iā€™m 26) just use Spotify for podcasts. A gaming podcast I really enjoy called Into the Aether recently released a 15 hour long podcast episode, and Spotify couldnā€™t handle the length even though Apple Podcasts, PocketCasts, and Overcast all didnā€™t have issues. Funny they spend so many millions getting exclusive podcasts but canā€™t even handle basic edge cases like long podcasts.

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Incidentally, I refuse to call anything on YouTube a ā€œpodcast.ā€ If I need to be sitting in front of a video screen of some sort to watch it, thatā€™s not a ā€œpodcastā€ in my book.

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15 hours is way beyond normal, Iā€™m not surprised something choked.

If I remember correctly, @ismh86 had problems uploading last yearā€™s podcastathon to YouTube because it was longer than 8 hours.

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Pocket Casts. The interface jives with how I organize things.

Also, I know itā€™s a small thing, but the Play/Pause animation is just great.