Google Podcasts shutting down in 2024 in favor of YouTube Music

September 27, 2023 By Awanish Kumar

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Image credit : Google e-Reader Google announced today to bid goodbye to its Google Podcasts sometime in 2024 in favor of YouTube Music which will be Google’s one podcasting app. YouTube Music podcasts will go through a lot of updates with worldwide availability by the end of this year. This provision is currently limited to the United States, Canada, and Latin America. “As part of this process, we’ll be helping Google Podcasts users move over to Podcasts in YouTube Music,” the company’s blog post reads. “This matches what listeners and podcasters are already doing: according to Edison, about 23% of weekly podcast users in the US say YouTube is their most frequently used service, versus just 4% for Google Podcasts.” In its blog post, the US tech giant mentions it has seen the growing popularity of spoken audio format content. A lot of podcasters are using audio-only content for video versions of their YouTube podcast. [caption id="attachment_194348" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] YouTube Music logo

Image credit : YouTube[/caption] Apart from the audio-only content many podcasters are also using YouTube for video versions of their content. That’s why the company is contemplating to include podcasts in its music-oriented YouTube Music app. And when Google rolled out podcasts to YouTube Music, it ensured that it would do away with Podcasts in favor of YouTube Music. Google assures to make this adjustment as it will facilitate an easy tool that will let users switch their content to YouTube music. Users will get access to the new episodes by subscribing to podcasts via RSS feeds available in YouTube Music. Also read : Samsung accidently reveals its upcoming Fan Edition devices, including a phone, tablet and earbuds Google further added that it will allow the users to download an OPML file of their subscriptions, which will let them switch to another platform at a time, in case they don’t want to go to YouTube Music.

By Awanish Kumar

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