Google Podcasts Is Gone, Here’s How to Transfer Your Subscriptions

Google’s Podcasts app is the latest addition to the company’s software graveyard

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YouTube Music is replacing it, and users have until July to migrate their shows.

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Podcast experiences can be improved for users in a way that I think Google Podcasts would never really be able to deliver.”

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After launching the app in 2018, the company wound down Google Podcasts on April 2.

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YouTube Music will serve as Google’s new home for podcast listening.

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McLendon is eyeing a future where algorithmic discovery and video podcast clips are more central to the user experience

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if you decide against YouTube Music and you want to leave Google’s podcast ecosystem entirely

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when you arrive at the YouTube Music export option, find the secondary option labeled Export for another app and press Download.

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The migration process from Google Podcasts to Pocket Casts is a little trickier but still doable

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Now five years later, he described making further long-term improvements, like being able to walk for consistent intervals.

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