In a blog post, the YouTube team announced the availability of podcasts on its YouTube Music app globally which is a step forward towards discontinuing Google Podcasts later in 2024.
Screenshot below shows podcasts in search results on YouTube Music for Android app version 6.20.51.
Earlier in April this year, YouTube Music started carrying podcasts in the US only which received mixed reactions from users as many popular podcasts were not available or were hard to find along with the inability to add RSS feeds [source].
The screenshot below shows the New episodes feed in the YouTube Music Library.
Google Podcasts has been around since June 2018 and is presently available on the Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS platforms alongside it's browser-accessible website. It is the 4th-most popular podcast platform after Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartRadio.
The screenshot below shows Google Podcasts version 1.0.0.5 running on Android.
Google Graveyard has added Google Podcasts as the 289th service that Google has killed.
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