Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3
Apple server faces outage as users get message that platform 'can't connect' Mastodon: Matt Birchler / @matt@isfeeling.social : You know, if you could let users download your app from your own site th...
How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : X: @kantrowitz X: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Lots of top podcasts pay for followers via mobile game incentives. This is bullshit chart gaming that adds disinterested ...
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck says all Glenn Beck Program episodes were removed from Apple Podcasts, and then restored, “with no explanation”
Meduza, an outlet covering Russian news, says Apple Podcasts removed its flagship podcast and then restored the show two days later without providing reasons
Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show
Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform.
As Spotify and YouTube's rivalry heats up, some worry the podcasting industry's pivot to video could risk ruining what makes the audio format so satisfying
Video podcasts are booming, giving creators access to new audiences. But does this risk ruining what made the audio format so satisfying? Tweets: @mignano , @stephenwilson , @thejakewarren , and @mrb...
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars as Apple began prompting users to rate the app, confusing some into rating individual podcasts
Apple Podcasts rises above bad reviews, but at what cost? — You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they're leaving angry reviews.
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
- Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars. Source: Apple Podcasts .
A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find
The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium. Tweets: @uugwuu , @dabeard , @uugwuu , @repteddeutch , @jessesingal , @waltmo...
Podcasts are being review-bombed in coordinated campaigns aimed at putting thousands of one-star reviews on their Apple Podcasts pages; hosts have no recourse
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