Google Podcasts
Google Podcasts is a podcast application developed by Google and released on June 18, 2018, for Android devices, and released on iOS devices in March 2020. Wikipedia
Website: podcasts.google.com
Owned by: Google
Latest news
- Apr 23: Google appears to have set a date for Google Podcasts to be switched off in countries outside the US. A support document has been updated to say “Users outside of the United States will be able to use Google Podcasts until mid-to-late June 2024”, 9to5Google has spotted.
- Apr 16: Android Police share five things we will miss about Google Podcasts now that it’s dead. (The app is alive and well in every country outside the US until June 24).
- Apr 8: Here’s what Google Podcasts looks like now inside the US, where it has closed - even the web app. It still works everywhere else; and we have no date for its closure in other countries.
- Apr 3: Google Podcasts is now said to have closed in the US (it’s still available in every other country, with no closure date yet). David Pearce from The Verge writes an excoriating article criticising Google. “The podcast app is only the latest good Google thing to die. And if Google ever wants us to buy into its promises again, this has to stop.”
- Apr 1: Google Podcasts is scheduled to close tomorrow, but in the US only. We have not got a date from the company, yet, as to when it closes in other countries. Here’s what we’d recommend as a replacement.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia