
If you ask, “Alexa, play the podcast Revisionist History,” she’ll summon the latest episode from the service. Listen without adding skills.īy default, Alexa serves podcasts via TuneIn.

Here’s everything you need to know about the current state of podcasts on Alexa, including a few listening options with varying degrees of playback control. We eagerly await the ability to sync with podcast apps like Pocket Cast, Stitcher and Downcast in order to manage subscriptions and keep tabs on what we have, and haven’t, heard. At the moment, you won’t find for podcast services the deep integration users enjoy with Spotify.

There’s plenty of room to improve the podcast experience on Alexa, however. Audio-centric, personal and uniquely intimate, Alexa and podcasts complement each other beautifully, and listening to podcasts is among Alexa’s most popular uses. As we adopt Alexa and other voice assistants at a phenomenal rate, we’re also listening to more podcasts, more often.
