![]() ![]() NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life are responsible for more than 170 million downloads per month thanks to some of the most popular, industry-shaping podcasts, including: This American Life, 2 Dope Queens, Making Obama, Making Oprah, Planet Money, Radiolab, Serial, and Up First. Pocket Casts has been recognized as “The podcast app every iPhone user needs” ( WIRED) as well as “The best podcast app for Android” ( The Verge). To ensure development aligns with the mission-driven ethos of public radio, the board will be comprised of representatives of the public media leaders.Ĭreated in 2010 by Australian mobile app developer Shifty Jelly, Pocket Casts is one of the highest-rated mobile apps for podcast listening by users on Android, iOS, the web, Sonos, and other platforms. ![]() Pocket Casts will operate as a joint venture, with founders Philip Simpson and Russell Ivanovic in leadership roles and the existing staff and developer team remaining in place. Grover previously served as Executive Vice President and General Manager at iHeartRadio, and before that as Vice President of Programming and Marketing at Clear Channel Music & Radio. This unprecedented collaboration furthers public radio’s leading role as an innovator in audio discovery and distribution, while ensuring the continued support and growth of one of the most popular listening platforms on the market.Īudio veteran Owen Grover will serve as CEO of Pocket Casts. ( NEW YORK – May 3, 2018) – Today, four of the top podcast producers – NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life – announced the acquisition of Pocket Casts, a leading podcast app. Improve Podcast Discovery Experience for Listeners and to Connect Producers with New Audiencesįormer iHeartRadio General Manager Owen Grover NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life Acquire Podcast App Pocket Castsįour of the Top Podcast Producers Unite to Own and Operate a Platform to Integration with an organization that can put the app into a tech stack which includes the world’s dominant blogging platform makes a lot of sense. In our view Pocket Casts has sharply defined and useful features, but any indie podcast listening app faces gale-force competitive headwinds in a field dominated by Apple, Spotify, and Google. ![]() Then-CEO Owen Grover (ex-iHeartMedia and a RAIN Summit speaker) departed in March of last year. A steady drumbeat of new features followed. (RAIN coverage HERE.) NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This American Life were principles in that acquisition. Pocket Casts was acquired by a public radio group in May, 2018. Pocket Casts co-founders Russell Ivanovic and Philip Simpson will continue to lead Pocket Casts as part of Automattic. The company previously established a partnership with Spotify-owned Anchor, enabling blog posts to become podcast episodes through text-to-speech features. This is Automattic/WordPress’s second headline dive into podcasting. “We will explore building deep integrations with and Pocket Casts, making it easier to distribute and listen to podcasts.” –Automattic announcement. The company plans to create integrations with its blogging platform WordPress, according to its public announcement: Automattic, parent company of WordPress has acquired podcast listening app Pocket Casts from NPR and a consortium of public stations.
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