Player FM
Type of site
Podcasting and Music streaming
Headquarters
Los Angeles[1]
,
United States
OwnerAs of June 2020 Maple Media LLC, 1880 Century Park East, Suite 1108, Los Angeles, CA, 90067 [2]
Founder(s)Michael Mahemoff[3]
Key peopleMichael Mahemoff
IndustryPodcasting
URLplayer.fm
LaunchedNovember 2011; 12 years ago (2011-11)[4]

Player FM or PlayerFM is a podcast discovery and cataloguing service which lists podcasts hosted across different podcast publishing sites.[5][6][7][8][9] It was created by software designer[10] Michael Mahemoff in 2011.[4][9] The service was acquired by Maple Media, a mobile media company, in May 2020 for an undisclosed amount.[11]

References

  1. ^ FM, Player. "TERMS OF SERVICE". player.fm.
  2. ^ "Terms of Service".
  3. ^ "Die wichtigsten Podcast-Apps für iOS & Co.: Funktionsvergleich und Übersicht" [The most important podcast apps for iOS & Co .: function comparison and overview]. iPhone-Ticker.de (in German). 7 May 2013. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Player.fm WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". whois.domaintools.com. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. ^ Minter Dial (24 August 2014). "Interview with Michael Mahemoff, founder of PlayerFM, talking podcasting". Minter Dialogue (Podcast) (110 ed.). MinterDial.com. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  6. ^ Roettgers, Janko (17 May 2012). "Player FM makes podcasts look cool again". Gigaom. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Open or closed: Who will control the paid-podcast experience, podcasters or tech companies?". Nieman Lab. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  8. ^ Mahemoff, Michael (16 March 2013). "Why Google killed off Google Reader: It was self-defense". Gigaom. Archived from the original on 19 March 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  9. ^ a b Roettgers, Janko (23 June 2014). "Player FM relaunches with new UI and in-app indexing". gigaom.com. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  10. ^ Mahemoff, Michael (2006). Ajax Design Patterns: Creating Web 2.0 Sites with Programming and Usability Patterns. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51488-4. OCLC 71666100.
  11. ^ Chambers, Bradley (29 April 2020). "Maple Media purchases podcast app Player FM to expand podcast presence". 9to5Mac. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
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