Re:BBC podcasts on third-party apps
by frosted-flakes on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:16AM
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Google Podcasts serves podcasts directly from the original source, so it's not being "hosted" by them. At least, that's what I've read concerning the BBC podcasts.
Additionally, I do use bandwidth as my rough listener metric, so letting it be hosted by Google Podcasts would impact that significantly. Which is closer to the concern the BBC seems to have.