Although they’ve been around for times now, podcasts are getting big again in the age of music streaming. Rivals Spotify and Apple are formerly gearing up for war, and indeed Amazon, which has its own Amazon Music subscription service, has jumped into the fray. It’s no surprise, also, to hear that YouTube may be setting its sights on the request since it also does music streaming. Unfortunately, Google is no foreigner to podcasts, and the confusion that might postdate could open up old injuries over the Google Play Music failure Reflecting its myriad messaging platforms, Google has a kindly confusing multifariousness of multimedia platforms and services that may be shut down at any given time. That’s what happed when Google retired Play Music in favor of YouTube Music, and it might do so in the future for Play Pictures & Television, which might be confused for YouTube itself or Google Television. It seems that the same confusing story will unfold yet again, this time over podcasts.
Bloomberg reveals that YouTube is looking to hire people with moxie in the podcasting assiduity, which is both a new direction for the Google company and a familiar home at the same time. Generators formerly host podcasts on YouTube in videotape form, frequently with just some cover art but occasionally with videotape feeds taped during the podcast recording. Expanding YouTube Music to include podcasts nearly sounds natural, except it might not be as far as Google is concerned Google formerly has a Podcasts app, and its treatment is actually veritably different from your typical podcasting experience. Google Podcasts is tied with Hunt, indeed showing playback controls in hunt results. Podcasts, also, is simply a accessible place to gather content listed from podcasting services and spots, analogous to how Google News functions.
It’s too beforehand in the game to see how YouTube’s interests in podcasts will ultimately affect Google Podcasts, but it’s enough clear at this point how the two differ in how they treat and handle the same type of multimedia content. Google could end up having two distinct podcasting apps again, which will ultimately be intermingled into one again eventually, important to the consternation of one or the other camp.