


But NPR, which owns a third of podcast media, stated that its share lost $812,129 in the past year. The supposed sale of Pocket Casts may not be all that surprising even though no official reason has been stated. They did have the Pocket Casts Plus offering where users paid $9.99 per year to get things like access to the desktop version, Apple Watch support, more themes and icons, and more importantly, cloud storage for those who wanted to upload their own content. Later that year, the app became free when previously you had to pay $3.99 to be able to download and use it. Last March 2019, the Material Theme revamp rolled out to the stable version but was met with a lot of criticism as there were some “conceptual changes” that affected how the app basically functioned. Since then, there have been two major changes, according to 9 to 5 Google. The acquisition of Pocket Casts was first completed back in May 2018.
