Google Podcasts users, alert! The app is shutting down soon; Migrate to YouTube Music this way

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If you're a podcast lover and use Google Podcasts to enjoy the latest episodes of your favorite shows, then there is bad news for you. Google has announced that its app will soon be discontinued, and after mid-2024, you will not even be able to migrate your shows and episodes to another app. So, if you do not want to start over with a different app and manually add all your shows and episodes, then this is the time for you to be proactive and move your RSS feed to a different platform. The good thing here is that Google is allowing you to easily migrate to YouTube Music, in case you prefer that app. So, check out how to migrate Google Podcasts data to YouTube Music or a third-party app.

For now, this will affect only those users who are residing within the US. In September, Google announced that it would be discontinuing Google Podcasts. Citing the reason, the post said, “As part of this process, we'll be helping Google Podcasts users move over to Podcasts in YouTube Music. This matches what listeners and podcasters are already doing: according to Edison, about 23% of weekly podcast users in the US say YouTube is their most frequently used service, versus just 4% for Google Podcasts”.

Earlier in December, Google made another announcement formalizing the roadmap for discontinuing the podcast app. As per the new information, Google Podcasts will stop working in the US as early as April 2024. To be more precise, after April 2, 2024, the app will no longer play any new episodes.

However, the company has guaranteed that it will be functional as usual till March. Even those users who are not able to migrate by April 2, will get a grace period till July 2024 to switch to another app. Between April to July, the app will continue to