![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the Pocket Casts team will keep adding new features, fixing bugs, and expanding our Plus offering. The company said, “we want to encourage all developers to share the modifications they make to the code. To everyone who wants to use the podcast, Pocket Casts is available on both Apple iOS and Android under Mozilla Public License. We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, the parent company of. No terms were given co-founders Russell Ivanovic and Philip Simpson, based in Adelaide SA, Australia, will continue to lead Pocket Casts as part of Automattic WordPress says we will explore building deep integrations with. The app was previously owned by NPR, but was known to be losing money. “We’ve been eager to take this step since we joined Automattic last year - after all, the company’s creed includes the phrase “I know that open source is the most powerful idea of our generation.” We believe that podcasting can not and should not be controlled by Apple and Spotify, and instead, support a diverse ecosystem of third-party clients.” Podcast app (and website) Pocket Casts has been bought by Automattic, the owners of Wordpress and Tumblr. Popular podcast listening app Pocket Casts has been bought by Automattic, the company behind and Tumblr. The previous owners of Pocket Casts introduced a new revenue model for the service in 2019, in. It is unknown how Automattic plans to monetize the service in the future. Pocket Casts would turn a loss For example, NPR would have lost 800,000 on the service in 2020. A popular podcast app, Pocket Casts will be integrated with users to facilitate listening to audio files and other media streaming services. It become a standard in the podcasting industry due to its groundbreaking features for podcast listening, searching, and discovery as well as its streamlined design and customization options, the company stated. Current wrote in January that the board of the app had voted to sell the app. Automattic, the parent company of and Tumblr, has acquired Pocket Casts. ![]() Pocket Casts is not your average podcast app, it competes with the top three podcast platforms Spotify, Apple and Google. “We are overjoyed and proud to announce that the Pocket Casts mobile apps are now open source,” writes the company in a blog post. Automattic, WordPress’s parent company believes in the democratisation of information and making things simple and less complicated.Īfter they bought the popular podcast app, Pocket Casts, now Automattic is turning the much-loved and leading podcast platform into an open source for Tom, Rethabile and Thabang to make use of it for free. ![]()
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