Google: The technology giant Google has taken another sensational decision. It will discontinue its podcast app services. Google has announced that these services will not be available to users from June 23. From June 23, users who have a subscription to the podcast will have to turn to YouTube Music. Google has already sent messages to users through these emails.
Since last year, Google has started adding podcast and other features to the YouTube Music app. Google has announced that this work is almost complete. Very soon, users will be able to access music and podcasts in the YouTube Music app. Currently users in the US market have this option. Google says that soon it will be expanded to other markets.
Google says users will not be able to use this content after June 23. The Google Podcast app has over 500 million downloads on the Play Store. According to a survey conducted by a company called Edison, 23 percent of users prefer the YouTube Music app to use podcasts. Only four percent of the people prefer the Google Podcasts app. In the background of users going back to the YouTube Music app.. Google is trying to bring all the content related to music to a single platform.. It is adding more podcast features to the YouTube Music app to make the users experience more. It also has an rss feed and users can download their opml file. However, the company has announced that all users' information will be available in Google Take Out for one year.. Like Google, users have been given the opportunity to listen to background play and download podcasts in YouTube Music. In fact, Google has announced that it will close the podcast in April itself. Later it changed its decision.
