TECHNOLOGY

Google Podcasts is closing down in 2024

By Sanjana Shankar

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Google podcasts

Google will discontinue its Google Podcasts app in 2024, shifting focus to offering podcasts within YouTube Music.

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Youtube Music

Google plans to make YouTube Music the ultimate destination for podcast listeners with features centered on discovery, community, and seamless switching between audio and video.

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Rollout

Previously, Google revealed YouTube Music would start supporting podcasts in the US and expand globally by the end of the year.

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Migration tool

To ease the transition, Google will provide a migration tool and the option to add podcast RSS feeds to users' YouTube Music libraries.

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Popularity

Edison Research reveals that 23% of weekly podcast users in the US prefer YouTube compared to 4% for Google Podcasts.

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App

Google Podcasts app was first launched on Android in 2018 and was later brought to iOS in 2020.

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