For customers in the USA, YouTube Music simply turned a complete lot extra helpful. Google has introduced podcasts to its music streaming app, including a complete new library of content material for customers, helpfully included in a single app. This brings the streaming app consistent with different streamers, like Spotify, which additionally characteristic podcasts inside the app.
As Spotify falters, it seems like extra streaming platforms are transferring in to supply what Spotify as soon as did, and even options it hopes so as to add sooner or later.
Extra content material on your library
Having podcasts within the app actually streamlines issues. Now, as a substitute of needing separate apps to get your podcast repair, you could find it in the identical place that you simply’d discover Olivia Rodrigo and Harry Kinds. YouTube Music already options some cool extras, similar to music from the YouTube video library, so this addition is a pleasant further.
The announcement comes from a press launch from Google itself (opens in new tab), which says of the information “All listeners can get pleasure from podcasts on-demand, offline, within the background, whereas casting and seamlessly switching between audio-video variations on YouTube Music.”
It is that final half that’s really essentially the most fascinating – in the event you’ve been listening to or watching a podcast on the YouTube video app, now you can keep on from the place you left off on the audio app. That is one thing that no-other streamer can boast.
It now seems like Spotify’s characteristic set has been totally plundered. Amazon Music and Apple Music each provide hi-res streaming choices, one thing Spotify has had deliberate for a while and now YouTube Music’s new podcast characteristic, Spotify seems prefer it’s received no distinctive promoting factors left. Past being inexperienced. Like Shrek.
Sadly, it is just for customers in the USA as of proper now, however hopefully, the replace will likely be coming to extra territories quickly. Maybe this may very well be another excuse to change from Spotify in your greatest iPhone.