A few of your favourite podcasts are shedding their app

This spring, Amazon introduced that its Wondery podcast service, each the Wondery app and the Wondery+ premium subscription, can be shutting down someday this yr. The day’s lastly come: the Wondery app is not out there, although podcasts revealed by Wondery are nonetheless out there on different platforms.

Amazon quietly confirmed the app’s retirement in an replace to a earlier weblog put up as we speak. Wondery will nonetheless function as a podcast studio, Amazon says, persevering with to publish exhibits like Armchair Knowledgeable and New Heights.

Amazon gave customers a heads-up concerning the service’s shutdown in March, however didn’t specify precisely when modifications have been coming. The corporate’s nudging former Wondery+ subscribers to attempt a subscription on Audible; that service’s comparatively new Normal plan contains ad-free entry to Wondery podcasts for $9 per 30 days. Wondery’s exhibits are additionally extensively out there on platforms like Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

The shutdown comes after important cuts at Wondery final yr, when Amazon fired a reported 110 folks and spun the writer’s narrative podcasts off into Audible, rebranding them as Audible Originals. Amazon’s announcement as we speak says “Wondery continues as a podcast studio recognized for standard creator-led exhibits,” however given the studio’s rocky current historical past, the outlook won’t be nice for what’s left of Wondery.

Have been you a Wondery person or a Wondery+ subscriber? Are you going to maneuver to an Audible subscription, or will you take heed to Wondery’s exhibits on different platforms? Tell us within the feedback.