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New podcast app Fathom, designed for better podcast discovery, has been launched on iOS and in-browser. It promises you can “ask any question and hear answers from your favourite podcasters and their guests.”
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ShowNotes
Breaking: Apple Podcasts has published details of how search in its app works. The post includes clarification that ratings and reviews aren’t factored into search results; and that the search function searches the show name, channel name, and episode title.
In July last year, Podnews published data showing what metadata different podcast apps use: noting that Apple Podcasts does not search podcast (or episode) descriptions.
During Pride Month, Google Podcasts is blocking and hiding some podcast episodes apparently because they use the word 'lesbian’.
Transistor’s Justin Jackson has reported Acast to Canadian law enforcement after the company targeted Transistor customers.
Acast recently targeted customers from Podbean, Captivate, Blubrry and others, using competitor’s logos, and sending multiple follow-up
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