YouTube Music
A growing podcast destination riding on YouTube's video habits, increasingly important as more shows record video versions of episodes.
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YouTube Music has steadily built out podcast support, pulling in shows that already publish on YouTube and surfacing them as a podcast listening option, audio only or with video where available.
This matters most for shows recording video versions of episodes for YouTube anyway, since that content can double as their podcast presence here without extra production work.
For a purely audio show with no YouTube channel, setting this up adds another destination to manage without necessarily returning much distinct audience beyond overlap with existing podcast apps.
Given how much of Gen Z uses YouTube as a default podcast player already, ignoring this platform entirely means missing a chunk of younger listeners who never open a dedicated podcast app at all.
Sources for this review
- Official product website · Checked 2026-08-27
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