The BBC has also announced plans to make podcasts from third-party producers available within the BBC Sounds service. One example of this is the Beyond Today podcast, a daily online-only 17 minute podcast produced by the Today team, exploring an issue in-depth with a younger audience in mind. BBC Sounds differs from iPlayer Radio by acting as a place for original podcast material created by the BBC specifically for the app in addition to live and catch-up listening of its linear radio services. An Apple tvOS app is also in development. An app for Connected TVs (including Amazon Fire TV) was released in March 2020. Since 22 September 2020, BBC Sounds has been available to international users it replaced BBC iPlayer Radio for international audiences at the end of October 2020. An initial beta version of the BBC Sounds app was launched in June 2018, with both the new app and the iPlayer Radio app supported until September 2019, when the iPlayer Radio app was finally decommissioned in the UK.

The BBC Sounds website replaced the iPlayer Radio service for UK users in October 2018. The BBC Sounds logo used from 2018 until 2021.

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