YouTube Music officially rolls out podcasts for listeners in the US

YouTube Music is officially adding podcasts to its platform in the US on Android, iOS and the online. The rollout comes just a few months after YouTube podcasting head Kai Chuk revealed that podcasts can be added to YouTube Music quickly.

The replace permits customers watching podcasts on the primary app to proceed listening to them on YouTube Music. The corporate notes that every one customers can take heed to podcasts on-demand, offline, within the background, and whereas casting and might seamlessly swap between audio-video variations on YouTube Music.

“This podcast listening expertise is totally different from our music listening expertise the place you want a Premium or Music Premium subscription to take pleasure in a few of these options,” the corporate wrote in a blog post. “This new podcast listening expertise enhances the podcast video expertise on YouTube.”

Podcasts in YouTube Music might be obtainable no matter whether or not you will have a YouTube Premium subscription. YouTube even notes that paying prospects could encounter host-read endorsements or sponsorship messages when listening to podcasts on YouTube Music.

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YouTube is rolling out the replace to all of its listeners in the US progressively, which implies not everybody might even see it but. The corporate stated it plans to deliver podcasts to YouTube Music to customers outdoors the US quickly however didn’t present any particular launch particulars.

The YouTube Music Residence tab now features a new “Podcasts” tab that takes you to a devoted feed, which can show your favourite podcasts and really useful episodes.

YouTube is advising creators that if their podcast is audio-only, they need to contemplate importing a video with a static picture or use audiograms or different dynamic video codecs. The corporate notes that it’s going to quickly supply creators the choice to straight add their audio podcasts by way of RSS feeds to each YouTube and YouTube Music.

In accordance with earlier reports, YouTube isn’t trying to signal unique offers with podcasters, which has been a key technique at Spotify. YouTube as an alternative appears to be targeted on melding the expertise of listening to podcasts on video and audio.