March 7, 2017At the time, Nick Quah wrote in his Hot Pod newsletter that the additions put Anchor in competition with Bumpers, an audio creation app founded by Ian Ownbey and Jacob Thornton, formerly of Twitter: “If we can bring people over to the platform by offering them tools they can’t get anywhere else, than we feel we’ve done our jobs.” “For us, anything that removes friction or enables creators to make something is a win for both the creator and for us,” he said. While Anchor wants users to create audio and listen within the app, Mignano said the company was adding the ability to export audio as podcasts because it wants to encourage users to create longer stories that might be better suited to listen to as a podcast rather than in the app, which was designed for shorter audio. It’s an older piece of technology that we think most creators don’t need to even be aware of.”Įven though users will be able to upload podcasts through the app, they’ll still be subject to the requirements of each of the podcast platforms, and Mignano said podcasts created through Anchor should be available on the various podcast apps within a day or two of the initial upload. If we had it our way, the user would never even need to know what an RSS feed is. “Our hope is that we can remove all of the technical and difficult aspects of the process to the end user.
“They’ll be able to control everything about the podcast that they need to control from Anchor,” cofounder and CEO Michael Mignano told me. Users can initially set up the podcast through the app by choosing a name, art, and more, and then subsequent episodes will be automatically added to the feed.
The social audio app Anchor is on Thursday introducing a new feature that allows users to easily publish podcasts to major podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Google Play.
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