Instead of spending the millions on an admittedly good podcast series, you need to spend some of that money on actually restoring some basic functionality back into the app. The glitches get worse with every update, and it just smacks of arrogance and having a monopoly. I initially thought it was just the free versions but the paid one has even more glitches. Ads are fine but make them make sense at least - as they often are not sized correctly, take forever to get through and are really not advertising their respective brands well, and just annoy the user more.

Be careful of taking your user for granted the way you are now, many famous brands have crashed and burned badly with this same attitude.