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BBC blocks its podcasts on Google
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThe author may not know Google Podcasts doesn't work the way any other podcast app does. Most apps like iTunes just are feed aggregators which facilitate downloading from a server of your choice. No terms are attached to being available in a given podcast app. Except for Google Podcasts, which requires you give Google an irrevocable worldwide license to your content and lets them host it themselves. Unlike almost every other podcast app, users can't add RSS feeds to Google Podcasts themselves, it's not the BBC which has broken well understood conventions and open standards of podcasting. My guess is BBC has an issue with Google Podcasts' terms.