There’s liking podcasts, and then there’s Arielle Nissenblatt. As Head of Community and Content at Pinwheel by Audily and founder/CEO of the EarBuds Podcast Collective, Arielle has been working in, writing about, and podcasting about podcasts since 2017. As you can imagine, that requires a fair bit of actually listening to podcasts. (“Five-plus” hours a day, according to her.) And for that, she depends on Pocket Casts.
Arielle first discovered Pocket Casts by word of mouth—”everybody talks about Pocket Casts in the podcast industry,” she says—but she sticks with it because it checks two fundamental boxes. First, it’s easy to use; second, it has all the podcasts anyone could be looking for. Add in folders, smart playlists, cross-device sync, and a heap of other features, and you’re looking at a podcast listening app that’s as powerful as you need it to be while still being as simple as you want it to be.
“Since I really started listening to podcasts [in] 2014,” she says, “I feel like my mind has been opened to new people, new stories, new concepts that I never would have gotten to know about otherwise.” She’s dedicated her career to helping other people find, share, and create their favorite new podcast—and Pocket Casts is a crucial part of that recipe.
Check out Arielle’s weekly podcast picks on the EarBuds podcast.
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