Recently, there were reports that you could now listen to podcasts via music on YouTube. For the company, this was a great opportunity to enter the highly competitive podcast market. Contrary to our expectations, Google has announced that it will no longer integrate with YouTube Music Podcasts.
Since 2021, YouTube Music has been working hard to update the service as a podcasting platform. Kai Chak was brought in to lead the project. However, it took a while for everything to become clear. Another step towards this agenda is the launch of the Podcasts page where you can suggest popular podcasts along with recommendations based on your listening history.
I learned last week that a podcast was added to YouTube Music. Of course, this news did not come suddenly. It is the result of many years of hard work. Compared to Google Play Music, YouTube Music was its replacement, except for the fact that there was no option for listening to podcasts. People used to use the Google Podcasts app as an alternative introduced in 2018.
Google Podcasts and YouTube are not integrated
As a large technology company, Google sometimes runs multiple services of the same type at the same time. These very similar services are then integrated by the companies. But not now. According to information from 9to5Google, there will be no integration between Google Podcasts and YouTube Podcasts as announced by Google.
This concept can be very helpful for users struggling to decide between Google Play Music and YouTube Music. YouTube Music is getting more popular these days, but some users still prefer Google Play Music. Some features are not supported by YouTube Music.
Despite this situation, it’s a good idea to keep these two applications separate as they can cause the same problem for your users. Despite the fact that YouTube is owned by Google, it does things differently. Therefore, it is very important to have these two applications working separately.
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