What Podcast Made You Fall in Love With Podcasts?
In 2022, I spent 97 days and 20 hours listening to podcasts on Pocket Casts alone. (Add in time I listened on Spotify and other platforms and the total grows…
Make a ‘Personal Podcast’ When You Study
Memory is a tricky thing. Scientists have figured out how many units of information you can store in your short-term memory (around seven, though there are great workarounds for remembering…
12 Podcasts That Changed Podcasting
Image: Podcast logo Welcome to Night Vale, which debuted in 2012, is a fiction podcast presented in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale,…
12 Incredibly Niche Podcasts
Image: Podcast logo Malls have a pretty bad reputation, but on Mall Talk, indie comics Paige Weldon and Emily Faye remind us why they were once secular sacred spaces for…
8 Short Podcasts to Start Your Day Off Right
Image: Happier With Gretchen Rubin podcast logo Starting your day off by reading the news (or opening your Twitter feed) can be rough on your mood. Why not greet the…
6 Companion Podcasts for the ‘Succession’-Obsessed
Are you keeping up with the Roy family drama? If so, are you also struggling with the need for pre-binging patience while we wait for weekly Succession episodes to drop?…
10 Ways to Make the Apple Podcasts App Suck Less
Screenshot: Jake Peterson By default, Podcasts sets the skip back button to 15 seconds, and the skip forward button to 30 seconds. If that isn’t your ideal setup, you can…
The Best Podcast Apps for Your iPhone and iPad (2021)
Apple Podcasts is the standard podcast app for many iOS users, but recent iOS 14 updates have made it an unbearable mess. Users have dealt with bugs, lost subscriptions, delayed…
How to Make Sense of What Apple Has Done to the Podcasts App
Photo: SDX 15 (Shutterstock) In April, Apple made some long-overdue changes to its Podcasts app, part of an overhaul of the company’s general approach to the podcasting market that will…
Check Out These Podcasts for Kids, Curated by Apple and Common Sense Media
Photo: II.studio (Shutterstock) Stumbling upon a new favorite podcast is like striking gold; it has to be the right combination of content that interests you, ads that aren’t too intrusive,…