For the first time, Spotify is now the most popular podcast platform by downloads, in line with Buzzsprout’s world obtain statistics. Spotify slipped in entrance of Apple Podcasts for the primary time, throughout Buzzsprout’s 124,000 energetic reveals in April.
However isn’t Spotify #1 anyway? Sure, however for listeners, not for downloads: till now, a minimum of. It’s a notable achievement for Spotify, since Apple Podcasts additionally auto-downloads by default; Spotify doesn’t. (Nevertheless, in contrast to Apple TV and Apple Music, Apple Podcasts just isn’t out there on Android.)
We’ve got a date: Google Podcasts is to shut, globally, on June 23 (in line with an email sent to a UK user). July 29 is the tip date for customers to export subscriptions.
The closure leaves the Android platform and not using a pure default podcast app (we advocate either Antennapod or Pocket Casts). Apple Podcasts isn’t out there on Android.
Apple Podcasts Join can be down for scheduled upkeep on Could 11, from 6.00am PT for as much as two hours.
We all know what we’d be hoping Apple is doing in that downtime (see above), however the real looking reply might be nothing extra fascinating than a person with a beard doing a database migration.
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With Airwave Media:CONFLICTED An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded on the coronary heart of conflicts within the Center East. Collectively Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of conflict, fundamentalism and their world implications by first-hand expertise.
The Spiritual Mixtape allows you to unwind with breathworks and meditations. And, the place higher to unwind and discover calm than on a British Airways flight? Yesterday, the present was added to the inflight leisure system there, so you possibly can stay as chilled as that cup of white wine from the trolley. The present is from This Is Distorted.
