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We thought about that and actually decided against a dedicated feature doing exactly this. The reason being that we do not want to hurt podcaster's ability to m

We thought about that and actually decided against a dedicated feature doing exactly this. The reason being that we do not want to hurt podcaster's ability to monetize their content. That being said, with the automatically generated chapters in our app, you do already get a good sense of where the ads are. I personally am hoping that some of the podcasting 2.0 features will make it easy for listeners to tip podcasters directly. Once we have that, we could implement an ad-skipping feature which is then only activated for listeners who have tipped the podcast creator.

jfengel 5y ago
I had not heard about that, but I'm glad for it. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I try to throw money at them, in a somewhat haphazard way. I'd do it a lot more consistently if I could just push a button in the app. Being able to skip the ads would be a nice bonus, though I'll admit that I use the existing features to skip ad breaks extensively. (I still end up hearing enough that I'm familiar with the products, and even try to patronize them. In fact, I need some new socks...)
- KevinBenSmith 5y ago
  Haha, I know what you mean. I think almost everyone skips the ads to a certain extent. But you still end up hearing about them at some point. Some of my favorite podcasts are Lex Fridman, Tim Ferris and Andrew Huberman. So there is no way around hearing some "Athletic Greens" ads. And after a while, I actually bought some :D Great to hear your feedback regarding tipping. Maybe we should prioritize this feature.
  - jfengel 5y ago
    I'll admit, I'm very fond of PocketCasts, so it'll take rather a lot to get me to switch. But tipping is a feature I'd consider it for.
    - KevinBenSmith 5y ago
      Ok, I added a vote to this feature for you in our internal feature request tracking ;) What do you love about PocketCasts the most?
      - jfengel 5y ago
        I think my favorite feature is its good toolkit for speeding things up. I listen to most podcasts at about 1.4x, and there's a button for removing silences. I have no idea how they do it, but it doesn't sound unnatural. It just peps up the pace and makes people sound more lively. I've used other apps and their speedup algorithms aren't as good. All told with its various speedup features, I download about 30 hours of podcasts a week, but I probably spend half of that actually listening. (At least some of that is ditching episodes I find dull, but not many.) Other than that I really am just used to my "workflow". New stuff gets downloaded and added to a queue. I imagine most podcast apps have something like that, but this one has a nice feature set for managing it all. Thanks for asking. Good luck on your project!

jfengel 5y ago

I had not heard about that, but I'm glad for it. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I try to throw money at them, in a somewhat haphazard way. I'd do it a lot more consistently if I could just push a button in the app. Being able to skip the ads would be a nice bonus, though I'll admit that I use the existing features to skip ad breaks extensively. (I still end up hearing enough that I'm familiar with the products, and even try to patronize them. In fact, I need some new socks...)

KevinBenSmith 5y ago
Haha, I know what you mean. I think almost everyone skips the ads to a certain extent. But you still end up hearing about them at some point. Some of my favorite podcasts are Lex Fridman, Tim Ferris and Andrew Huberman. So there is no way around hearing some "Athletic Greens" ads. And after a while, I actually bought some :D Great to hear your feedback regarding tipping. Maybe we should prioritize this feature.
- jfengel 5y ago
  I'll admit, I'm very fond of PocketCasts, so it'll take rather a lot to get me to switch. But tipping is a feature I'd consider it for.
  - KevinBenSmith 5y ago
    Ok, I added a vote to this feature for you in our internal feature request tracking ;) What do you love about PocketCasts the most?
    - jfengel 5y ago
      I think my favorite feature is its good toolkit for speeding things up. I listen to most podcasts at about 1.4x, and there's a button for removing silences. I have no idea how they do it, but it doesn't sound unnatural. It just peps up the pace and makes people sound more lively. I've used other apps and their speedup algorithms aren't as good. All told with its various speedup features, I download about 30 hours of podcasts a week, but I probably spend half of that actually listening. (At least some of that is ditching episodes I find dull, but not many.) Other than that I really am just used to my "workflow". New stuff gets downloaded and added to a queue. I imagine most podcast apps have something like that, but this one has a nice feature set for managing it all. Thanks for asking. Good luck on your project!