“The future of podcasting shouldn’t be locked behind walled gardens,” writes the team at Pocket Casts. To push that point forward, Pocket Casts, owned by the company behind WordPress, Automattic Inc., ...

The Automattic-owned service framed the move as standing up for open podcasting that's freely accessible to anyone, everywhere. "By making our Web Player available to everyone, we're reinforcing our ...

YouTube Premium recently got a trio of podcast features. I tried them for a week, and now I'm ditching my dedicated podcast ...

Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. In a campaign against Spotify and large tech, Pocket Casts - owned by the company behind WordPress - has made its podcast web player and desktop apps ...

Legacy paid users of the popular podcast app Pocket Casts are being shown ads and directed to pay a subscription of $40 a year in order to remove them. This violates an agreement which promised them ...