Apple Podcasts is the most-used podcast app in the United States. It is also one of the worst for ads. There's no built-in ad blocker, episode ads are dynamically inserted into nearly every major ...

Podcast ads in 2026 are longer, more numerous, and harder to skip than they were three years ago. This is the complete guide to blocking podcast ads — every path that actually works, every path that d...

There's news, and there's news podcasts. The first will give you the headlines. The second is for when you want context — why this story matters, what's behind it, who the players actually...

Most podcast listeners don't think about how the ad in the middle of an episode got there. They just hear it, skip it, and move on. But the way podcast ads are delivered has changed substantially ...

YouTube has become one of the biggest podcast platforms in the world. Lots of shows now publish a video version of every episode to YouTube as their primary distribution. That's good for the shows...

If you've felt like podcast ads have grown longer over the last twelve months, you're not imagining it. The average ad load on a typical commercial podcast has crept up across 2025 and into 20...

"Ad-free" can mean a few different things. Some shows run zero ads at all because they're funded by public-broadcasting underwriting or listener donations. Some run a few short ads on th...

Spotify Premium is famous for one thing: no ads. Spotify also has the biggest podcast catalogue of any music app. So it's easy to assume that paying for Premium means ad-free podcasts too. It does...

Podcast transcripts have gone from a niche feature to an expected part of the listening experience. Here's everything you need to know....

Whether you listen to one podcast a week or twenty, a few small changes to your setup can make a big difference. Here are our favourite tips....