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|Company=Automattic

|ProductLine=Pocket Casts

|ReleaseYear=~~2025~~

|ReleaseYear=2011

|InProduction=Yes

|ArticleType=Product

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|Website=https://pocketcasts.com/

|Description=Podcast player

~~}}Pocket Casts is a podcast player for Android, iOS, and Web[[https://pocketcasts.com/ 1]]. {{Ph-C-Int~~}}

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'''Pocket Casts''' is a podcast player for Android, iOS, and Web<ref>https://pocketcasts.com/</ref>.

==Consumer-impact summary==

~~{{Ph-C-CIS}}~~

*Business Model: Streaming service content, [[advertising overload]]

==Incidents==

~~{{Ph-C-Inc}}~~

===Showing advertisements to Champion/Lifetime users (''September 2025'')===

~~This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].~~

In September 2025, the parent company Automattic changed the app to display advertisements to users who had purchased a lifetime license for the Pocket Casts app<ref>https://www.theverge.com/news/784429/pocket-casts-ads-lifetime-memberships-complaints</ref>. Support staff responded to complaints justifying the change as necessary to provide ongoing support and development of the app<ref>https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/the-new-advertisements-seriously-suck/#post-10923</ref><ref>https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/ads-despite-being-a-paid-customer/#post-11055</ref>. Later, the CEO posted on Hacker News claiming that showing ads to users that had purchased a lifetime subscription was a bug<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354405</ref>.

===~~Example incident one~~ (''~~date~~'')===

~~{{Main|link~~ to the ~~main CR Wiki article}}~~

~~Short summary of~~ the ~~incident (could be the same~~ as the ~~summary preceding~~ the ~~article)~~.

~~===Example incident two (''date'')===~~

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==See also==

~~{{Ph-C-SA}}~~

*[[Netflix]]

*[[Samsung ads in refrigerators]]

==References==

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 |Company=Automattic
 |ProductLine=Pocket Casts
-|ReleaseYear=2025
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 |InProduction=Yes
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 |Website=https://pocketcasts.com/
 |Description=Podcast player
-}}Pocket Casts is a podcast player for Android, iOS, and Web[[https://pocketcasts.com/ 1]]. {{Ph-C-Int}}
+}}
+'''Pocket Casts''' is a podcast player for Android, iOS, and Web<ref>https://pocketcasts.com/</ref>.
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
-{{Ph-C-CIS}}
+*Business Model: Streaming service content, [[advertising overload]]
 ==Incidents==
-{{Ph-C-Inc}}
+===Showing advertisements to Champion/Lifetime users (''September 2025'')===
-This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
+In September 2025, the parent company Automattic changed the app to display advertisements to users who had purchased a lifetime license for the Pocket Casts app<ref>https://www.theverge.com/news/784429/pocket-casts-ads-lifetime-memberships-complaints</ref>. Support staff responded to complaints justifying the change as necessary to provide ongoing support and development of the app<ref>https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/the-new-advertisements-seriously-suck/#post-10923</ref><ref>https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/ads-despite-being-a-paid-customer/#post-11055</ref>. Later, the CEO posted on Hacker News claiming that showing ads to users that had purchased a lifetime subscription was a bug<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354405</ref>.
-===Example incident one (''date'')===
-{{Main|link to the main CR Wiki article}}
-Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
-===Example incident two (''date'')===
-...
 ==See also==
-{{Ph-C-SA}}
+*[[Netflix]]
+*[[Samsung ads in refrigerators]]
 ==References==