Apple's podcast platform launched in 2005, when the iPod had become the king of the portable devices for playing music. The Podcast category was included in iTunes in that same year and since then, it has become the largest platform of its kind in the world.
To this day, it has more than 800.000 episodes available, although Spotify is gradually getting dangerously close to that figure. Apple's podcast platform at the moment was only available on Apple's HomePod, but like Apple Music, it has just landed on Amazon's smart devices, that is, only in the United States at the moment.
If the default podcast platform on our Amazon Echo is Apple, we just have to ask Alexa toplay the latest podcast Actualidad iPhone, go to the next podcast, go ahead 2 minutes ... If we want to continue playing on our iPhone, iPad or Mac we can do it through the official application since synchronize position at all times.
If we have multiple podcast services, we must specify that it plays the latest podcast from News on Apple Podcast. In 2012, Apple launched its own application to play podcasts on iOS. Until the release of macOS Catalina, the only option to play our favorite podcast was to use iTunes. Now it is possible to do it with the specific application for this type of audio.
Apple has abandoned podcasts
Despite this movement, which is quite interesting when it comes to further popularizing this ecosystem, content creators who have been on this platform for many years continue to demand a monetization method, method they were working on a couple of years ago, Cue said, but there is no news yet.
This lack of news is forcing podcast creators to look for chestnuts on other platforms that do offer monetization, a move that will ultimately be detrimental to Apple's podcast platform.
In Spain, the only platform that allows you to monetize podcasts on iVoox, a platform that allows creators to exclusively offer their content in exchange for monetization and that also includes different subscription options for these content creators.
