Recall when pundits were saying podcasting is dying?
Not so.
Apple Podcasts currently hosts north of 550,000 active shows, a bump from the 525,000 the company reported back in April — that’s a considerable jump from the 3,000 programs it hosted when the program launched back in 2005. …
I’ve been a daily listening fan since they started.
On The Media has been my favourite for perhaps the last decade.
Most people still get their audiocasts from iTunes. It’s not perfect. Nor is the Podcast app on IOS.
On the upside Apple is quite strict about who gets hosted. I never hear of any Nazi podcasts on the platform, for example.
