![]() Many of the shows in this collective are already doing dynamic ad insertions based on their best guess of your location based on your IP address. I hope this works out great, but I would wager money that this is about user-tracking (for user-profile-based dynamic ad insertion) and embedding crap like listener surveys right in the player. They want what’s best for the podcasting space, they want to build Opportunity is the mission driven nature of these organizations. “We turned them down because the unique thing about this “We have hadĪcquisition offers in the past,” Ivanovic told The Verge by email. What the buyers paid, but because of who they are. Pocket Casts are insistent they chose this path not because of The acquisition price isn’t being disclosed. ![]() Owen Grover, a veteran of iHeartRadio / ClearĬhannel, has been named as Pocket Cast’s CEO. Unspecified “leadership roles.” The existing staff and development Philip Simpson and Russell Ivanovic, whoįormed Shifty Jelly (Pocket Cast’s developer) in 2008, will have Moving forward, Pocket Casts will operate as a joint ventureīetween the new owners. Group that includes NPR, WNYC Studios, WBEZ Chicago, and This Pocket Casts, widely considered to be one of the best mobile appsįor podcast listening, has been acquired by a collective (Of course, now that I say it's solved, it'll probably start happening again.Pocket Casts Acquired by NPR, Other Public Radio Stations, and This American Life (Not to mention I haven't seen anyone else mention this issue in relation to the other v7 complaints.)Įdit: After wiping cache + app data + reinstalling the app, this hasn't happened again. So, has anyone had any issues like this? It happened a couple times right before v7 hit, but is regular now. Honestly now I'm just using the webplayer in chrome on my tablet instead, but it's not exactly an optimal solution. I'm pretty sure that it's not something podcast-network dependent, because I'm very sure the podcasts that crossover are not hosted by the same sites, and it's not an issue when using the web player, (PC or android.) only through the android app. (I have a couple other podcasts cut in, but I can't recognize the voices in them, as they might be from some of the podcasts I've subscribed to, but haven't gotten around to listening to yet, since I'm working through a huge backlog thanks to Critical Role ) And then the next day when I resume, suddenly my tablet's been hijacked by the McElroys again. I'll play some podcast while falling asleep, turn it off. And sometimes it'll happen when the tablet leaves sleep as well. So I stopped downloading them, in case that was the issue.īut it happens when streaming podcasts as well. (Tablet is mostly used for podcast listening before I go to bed, otherwise I'm usually doing it on pc.) And especially when I have to do it nearly daily. But that's a tedious process, especially now. Stopping the stream, deleting the episode (if downloaded.) and redownloading it sometimes fixes it. ) (It'll still think it's streaming the correct data, it still thinks it's streaming the normal episode. Suddenly, mid-episode it'll just start streaming in audio from other podcasts entirely (Ones I'm subscribed to, the McElroy brothers have suddenly barged into my podcast listening unexpectedly a couple times now. So, this started happening maybe a week or so ago on my android tablet.
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