Most podcast apps rely on Apple's podcast index to power search. Yes, you can manually add a feed in most clients but that is not how most people use their podc

Most podcast apps rely on Apple's podcast index to power search. Yes, you can manually add a feed in most clients but that is not how most people use their podcast app. They search for podcasts in their app of choice. If a podcast doesn't appear there because it isn't included in Apple's directory very few people will know that they can manually add a feed URL. Or understand any of those words.