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Google Podcasts shuts down April 2


Building a podcast player into Google Search was always a weird plan.

The shutdown will clear the deck for Google's media consolidation under the YouTube brand with podcasting app No. The project grew out of the Google Search team's desire to index podcast content. Along with a glacially slow development pace, Google Podcasts feels like it should have never existed to begin with.

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