Entertainment · Channel report
What people complain about in Podcasts
WaveSeek read 5,038 public posts about Podcasts over 30 days and found 79 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 13 October 2026 · 4 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-13. Peak 216 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved -11%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 5,038posts ingested about Podcasts30-day window
- 291read by the classifier6% of them
- 79were genuine complaints27% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on Podcasts is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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Excessive ad frequency
👎🏻 — Le doy un 3 porque tiene muchos anuncios 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
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2
Excessive ad interruptions
spotify review — love everything bout it except the ads gotta go🥀🥀
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3
Excessive ad load in free tier
SO MANY ADS — Too many
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4
Forced ads without subscription
A lot of songs — Spotify has a lot of music to choose from. Since I am not a member, I have limitations and…
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5
Expensive subscriptions and intrusive ads
tldr spotify is ok — only listen to music no podcasts but if i could only have one subscription for the res…
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6
Rising subscription price
Jew — No reason to raise ur price
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7
Insecure connected IoT devices vulnerable to cyberattacks
The “Internet of Things” has gone terribly wrong. A string of horrendous cyberattacks, most recently refrigeration units in grocery stores a…
Read it yourselfintuitivefuture.com ↗ -
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Slow or failed content loading
3.5 stars. could be better? — its good but sometimes it doesnt load for like 1hr..
Read it yourselfapps.apple.com ↗
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
4 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spotify: Music and Podcasts | 3.7★ | 200 | 61% |
| Overcast: Podcast App | 3.6★ | 7 | 57% |
| Pocket Casts: Podcast Player | 3★ | 2 | 50% |
| Snipd | AI Podcast Player | 2★ | 1 | 0% |
Search demand
205,058 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-08 for the keywords podcasts, podcasts app.
Searches peak in December and bottom out in June, a 56% swing across the year.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See Podcasts change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
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