Official reason
Podcasts moving into YouTube Music.
Google · Media & Publishing
Google Podcasts
RIP
2018–2024 · 6 years in market
A straightforward podcast app retired in favor of YouTube Music.
Launched
Jun 19, 2018
Discontinued
Jun 1, 2024
Cause of death
Replaced by successor
What actually happened
Audio strategy consolidation. Another app Google did not want to maintain.
Lesson
If your podcast app is a wrapper around RSS, you are one reorg from being a tab.
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YouTube Music
Now the official podcast home.
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