How do you listen to podcasts on the go? Here’s what everyone else is doing.
The Podnews podcast reports on how people are listening to programs on mobile devices. Here’s what they found for the month of October 2019.
- Apple Podcasts: 58%
- Spotify: 13%
- Overcast: 2.4%
- Stitcher: 2.4%
- CastBox: 2.15%
- Google Podcasts: 1.9%
- Podcast Addict: 1.7%
- Pocket Casts: 1.3%
Glad Pocketcasts makes the list at least. I’m a massive fan.I think they lost a lot of users through some recent design changes, but I think it’s been net-positive.
A lot of players have features that speed up podcasts without affecting the pitch. Pocketcasts seems to have a unique one that also deletes silences. I also love that it syncs my progress and queue between my phone and desktop computers, home & work.
One of the modern updates removed the ability to play “offline” podcasts (mp3s saved to your device), but they recently made a change that lets you upload your episodes not on an RSS feed which is fantastic when I’m catching up on podcast archives.