Google has finally launched a native podcasting app for Android. The app arrives years after Apple, which has had a native podcast app called ‘Apple Podcast’ on its iOS devices. The announcement has been met with a positive response by most Android users.
The app is not new, per se. The search giant had kept its podcast app buried within Google Assistant and Assistant-powered smart speakers for playback of flash news for sometime now. With the launch of Google Podcasts, the player built into Assistant has received a new lease of life in the form of a standalone application. Last week, the IAB shared that revenues for the podcast industry were up 86 percent from last year and Google can now pitch a serious distribution network to podcast creators.
For long, the most viable option for people to listen to podcasts on Android was to download the paid app known as Pocket Casts. While the app is legitimately…
