Here, I just hit my limit.The public broadcasters who own Pocket Casts are selling the podcast platform, less than a year after it was declared public media’s “ answer to Spotify.”Ī board made up of representatives of Pocket Casts’ owners - NPR, New York Public Radio, Chicago Public Media and BBC Studios Americas - agreed in December to sell the platform, according to NPR’s latest audited financial report. I do the same thing with my subscriptions. If you can use some Netflix analogy or accounting trick to make this feel good to you, more power to you. If this seems like a great value to you, I’m happy for you. And that’s the problem… they don’t even have a feature to justify this increase. So what’s left? Just a company asking for more money to (maybe later) think of something to do that no one is asking for. They’ll never add local files because then they couldn’t sell us unnecessary cloud support. The search is fine and I could do without it. It seems absurd to imply they’re thinking up some feature that will justify this price increase. To me Pocket Casts has been more or less feature complete. It makes me feel gross and as though the money I’ve given them over the years wasn’t enough. So yeah, when a company that isn’t offering me anything of substance for a $10 payment tells me I’m going to need to increase that by 50% without any explanation, I feel exploited. This took that gesture of goodwill and treated it like I’m paying for a service. My subscription was a gesture of goodwill on my part to pay the developers something. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what my subscription was to me. I never agreed with the idea of hiding basic features behind a pay wall. I was happy paying $10 a year as a sort of tip jar. The email seemed so disingenuous and seemed to ignore why most of us have been happy to support them until now. I felt pretty good about supporting them at $10, at $15 I feel exploited. Pocket Casts is just putting basic features behind a paywall in order to justify an ongoing subscription that simply isn’t worth it in my opinion. There hasn’t been any meaningful innovation in podcast apps in years. I was happy to pay $10 a year to support the developers, but this increase has me setting up Overcasts. I can’t manage my own feeds, I have to route everything through Pocket Casts servers which has caused me needless hassle more than a few times and doesn’t even factor in the privacy issues. I don’t want or need cloud storage, but Pocket Casts made it the only way to listen to my own files. Pocket Casts has taken years to catch up and has managed to turn those basic features into a subscription. The app I used before had folders, allowed access to local files, had smart playlists, playback speed, skipped silence… these were rather basic features in an app I gladly paid for. This is more like if your TV/Roku/Apple TV/Chromecast started charging you to access the Netflix app.įrankly, I’m not sure I need them to improve anything. For any questions, please reply to this email or visit our support site. If you wish to cancel your subscription, visit this support article for instructions. If you would like to keep your current plan, no further action is required. These change will allow us to deliver even more value to your subscription, with better search capabilities, meticulously curated content, and more features that are guaranteed to improve and enhance your experience. The subscription will automatically renew at the new price on your first billing date on or after January 5. ![]() Effective January 5, 2023, your subscription price will change from $9.99 USD to $14.99 USD. ![]() We are updating our pricing so we can continue providing you with hours and hours of entertainment. The team behind Pocket Casts is always hard at work developing, maintaining, and refining the app you love. Thank you for being a Pocket Casts subscriber. Price changes to your Pocket Casts subscription
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