Great. I always wanted a truckload of ads dumped across the podcast I want to listen to 👍
Why you don’t use an adblocker for it? /s
YouTube Music Podcast is the worst name for a product I’ve heard in a long time.
I suppose for video podcasts it’ll be YouTube Music Podcast Video
What do apps like this have when there are open-source alternatives like AntennaPod? I saw the article mentions being able to play videos too?
Google is chasing the “ease of use aspect”. A mobile OS has to have a notes app, a mail app, a chat app (in Google’s case abundance of chat apps) and a podcast app. Google can track your personal podcast preferences, listening habits, etc.
Personally, I would not choose to use any default Google app. There are lots of better alternatives.
Probably exclusive content and proprietary tech so you use your favorite podcast player. 🤮
I guess most that will use YouTube music will see it as a convenience type thing. If I was in say android auto and my default search is on YouTube music being able to have it just play the podcast I was looking for would be very convenient.
Uh, was there something wrong with Google Podcast or whatever their previous thing was called?
I use podcasts to get away from youtube. No way in hell I’m downloading this.
Listening to podcasts on closed source, corporate media platforms like Spotify and YouTube are the worst things you can do for podcasting. Podcasting has always been an open ecosystem built on old school technologies and Spotify, iHeartMedia, and YouTube are trying to insert themselves in order to create an additional Chokepoint in the media ecosystem. Even worse, because podcasts are usually freely available it is a great way to get people who subscribe to streaming services to spend their time streaming something the service doesn’t have to pay per stream for, unlike music
will this take over Google podcasts then?
Not until they launch yet another product with even less functionality, and then they will put Google Podcasts into the graveyard.
