Google Podcasts
This company is no longer trading under this name
Google Podcasts was a podcast application developed by Google and released on June 18, 2018, for Android devices, and released on iOS devices on March 24, 2020. Wikipedia
Website: podcasts.google.com
Owned by: Google
Latest news
- Nov 14: New US podcast consumption data from AnalyticsIQ suggests that YouTube is the most popular place for podcast listening, with 59% of people saying they’d listened to a podcast on it in the past three months. Comedy is the #1 podcast category; 23% say they’ve bought products because of a podcast ad. Not given in the report: the survey was undertaken in Q1/24 (which explains why 16% of listeners say they were using Google Podcasts, which closed in March).
- Sep 2: Both Spotify and Apple Podcasts saw increase in download share for Buzzsprout shows last month. (Pocket Casts has almost doubled year-on-year.) iOS has increased over Android: possibly a knock-on effect from the end of Google Podcasts.
- Jul 30: Google is helping users who haven’t yet migrated their podcast subscriptions out of Google Podcasts by giving them an extra month to do so.
- Jul 2: Buzzsprout’s download data for June shows a significant jump for “web browsers” in June. Google Podcasts posted a 1% share of downloads.
- Jul 1: Google Podcasts appears to have finally been turned off internationally, a week late. It’s still available to install on Google Play, though, which must be confusing for new podcast users, because the app doesn’t do anything any more. We hope they remove it from there soon.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia