Late last year, it was announced Google Podcasts would cease operations. We now have an official date that the division will shutter.
The app will officially end on Sunday, June 23rd. The company will allow publishers just over a month to move their current podcast libraries over to another platform before completely ending the service on Monday, July 29th.
Originally, the plan was to shutter Google Podcasts in March. That timeline, however, proved to be too quick for many content creators who published their on-demand audio with the platform.
The end of the service coincides with an increased usage of YouTube for podcast discovery. 19% of all weekly podcast listeners claim they find new podcast content on the digital video platform also owned by Google. That figure rises to 26% when segmented to just the Persons 18-34 demographic.
The company has implemented all podcast and on-demand audio into its popular YouTube Music app.
