It’s our last newsletter of the year, and what a year it’s been! Thank you for all the downloads, the clips, the tweets, the feedback, and everything else you’ve given Shuffle this year. As always, if you have any questions feel free to respond and if you haven’t given Shuffle a go, download it here:

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What’s new with Shuffle:

We’ve spent the last couple weeks of the year cleaning up lots and lots of bugs. Hopefully everyone is feeling the difference already (I know I am), but as always please report anything directly from within the app by shaking your phone! That said:

• The bugs: Way less crashes, less rendering difficulties, and less flickers on your feed!

• The features: new users will see a new log-in screen allowing them to pick some of their favorite podcast topics to help make their feed even more personalized.

Since it’s our last newsletter before 2021, we figured we’d send over a “What’s coming” as a teaser for some of the stuff that’s coming soon!

• Better feeds! We’re always working on making your feed as personalized as possible and have some very exciting projects in the works to make that happen.

• Totally new listening experiences. Not teasing too much, but this is going to be huge.

• Lots, lots more. Promise :)

Shuffle around the web:

• We really couldn’t be more proud that, Fast Company called us the TikTok of Podcasts. Read more here!

• Some of our favorite tweets from the last couple weeks:

  joshuaeilam @joshuaseilam

  Best product I’ve used in a while. So many features/ideas to add I thought of while using it... bravo 👏🏽 P.S You have to add the double tap for like 😄

  Ada Yeo @adayeoyh

  I've laughed, cried, and learnt a ton from podcasts, but it was always such a solitary experience Finally built the magical podcast product I wish I had when I started listening years ago https://t.co/jonxxZyAZT https://t.co/JR0rlJ1DVJ

  December 22nd 2020

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Josh Ye 葉嘉栩 @TheRealJoshYe

Tried this myself. It is quite addicting. It's like radio browsing in your car. Not sure if this is gonna shorten our attention span even more, but I think this makes a whole lot of sense since podcasts are so hard to find now given the large amount of content out there.

Ada Yeo @adayeoyh

I've laughed, cried, and learnt a ton from podcasts, but it was always such a solitary experience Finally built the magical podcast product I wish I had when I started listening years ago https://t.co/jonxxZyAZT https://t.co/JR0rlJ1DVJ

December 22nd 2020

1 Retweet7 Likes

Plus this great tweet and discussion, using an awesome clip:

Ric Burton 🇬🇧 ‣ 🇺🇸 @ricburton

Young people joining big tech companies are under the illusion that they are being hired to do a job. They are not. They are being hired to not join a startup. In this podcast, @chamath tells @AndrewYang why this is the “explicit strategy” of these huge monopolistic companies.

December 29th 2020

64 Retweets504 Likes

Thanks for sticking with us this year. We’re so excited for everything we’ve built this year and can’t wait to show you all everything that’s coming in 2021. Happy New Years!