Podcasters complain of Apple Podcasts platform pain points

Apple earlier in 2021 launched a subscription mechanism and revamped backend for its Apple Podcasts service, but the platform suffered a bumpy rollout and lingering problems still plague both podcasters and listeners.

A number of podcasters outlined a wide spectrum of issues with Apple Podcasts in a report published by The Verge on Wednesday, highlighting problems from an error prone content management system to a serious bug that significantly impacted downloads in July.The incident last month, for example, prevented automatic downloads of new episodes from completing in the background, an issue that caused a reported 31% drop in downloads, Podtrac reported in August.

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