Why wouldn’t Podcasts do the same? Being in YouTube makes the most sense. Google Play Music was merged into YouTube, Google Play Movies and TV was merged into YouTube. But yeah, I stuck with Pocket Casts when Google Podcasts came out, and I don’t intend to switch. The article suggests they may be trying to make some sort of “YouTube Podcasts” experience, which I guess makes sense, since they already switched Google Play Music to YouTube Music, and a lot of video podcasts are already uploaded to YouTube anyway. It does make sense to some considering Spotify, one of YouTube Music’s competitors, already allows listening to podcasts straight from the app. This partly explains the divided opinion among YouTube Music users, which could be the likely destination for Podcasts if Google indeed kills the app. And Google Podcasts is one of the good ones, at least going by some comments from current users. While there’s no confirmation from Google, you can never rule out Google killing any of its good products. This also hinted at the potential sunsetting of the Google Podcasts app. But it was hint enough that we were staring at a possible future with podcasts integrated into YouTube. However, this feature never made it to everyone. As the name suggests, this was meant to integrate podcasts into the main YouTube platform as part of the ‘Explore’ page. Last August, Google started testing something known as YouTube Podcasts. This development rekindled a discussion regarding YouTube Podcasts or rather the integration of Google Podcasts into YouTube or YouTube Music for that matter. However, Podnews ( via 9to5Google) recently reported that this functionality is gone. Original story (published on January 20, 2023) follows:Ī few days ago, reports emerged that playable Google Podcasts episodes were no longer showing up in Google Search results.įor the uninitiated, ever since Google Podcasts launched, it’s been possible to start podcast episodes directly from Google Search results. New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

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