There is a really cool and useful feature that I use in my current Podcast app, Downcast.
It is the ability to parameter, for each Podcast, the Episode Start Time (example: “start 30 sec in”) and Episode Finish Time (example:“finish 10 seconds from end”).
Note that I am not talking about a global setting, rather an individual setting per Podcast.
This is a great way to cut off some useless blabla (such as commercial) when listening to a Podcast.