[scrooched_moose]

It's possible it's just a count of how many podcasts are included in the "Discover" section. I don't know what the process for getting added to that is.

It covers almost all of the "big" podcasts, but there are a handful of local ones I've had to add manually.

[Y_Y]

You can submit podcasts to them to get added[0]. They added my tiny podcast without any hassle.

[0] http://www.pocketcasts.com/submit

[mey]

You can plug in a feed url to the add section for podcasts they don't know about.

[thedarkginger]

PocketCasts is interesting because arguably the Discover section is less central than other apps (I can't remember the last time I used except to do searches for new shows vs. other apps where the main page is loaded for recommendations of shows I don't care about).

I wonder if that changes.