Pocket Casts

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Pocket Casts is a cross-platform, open source [1] podcast application.

History

• 2008: Philip Simpson and Russell Ivanovic formed Shifty Jelly (the company that developed Pocket Casts)
• 2018-05: Pocket Casts has been acquired by a collective group that includes NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life. Shifty Jelly founders indicated that they sold to the group because:

They want what’s best for the podcasting space, they want to build open systems that everyone can use.

• 2020-03-02: BBC Studios and Pocket Casts are announcing today that the British company is investing in the American podcast player.
• 2021-07-16 Eli Budelli: Popular Podcast App Pocket Casts Joins Automattic (archived)
• 2022-10-19 Yael Rubinstein: Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source (archived)

See Also

• podcatcher
• podcast