{"id":52709,"date":"2022-08-22T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtube%e2%80%a4com-podcasts-goes-live-as-explore-page\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:33:45","slug":"youtube%e2%80%a4com-podcasts-goes-live-as-explore-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtube%e2%80%a4com-podcasts-goes-live-as-explore-page\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2024com\/podcasts goes live as &#8216;Explore&#8217; page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>YouTube organically became a place for distributing and watching\/listening to podcasts, and the Google video service is widely expected to offer a more optimized experience.  This is starting with a YouTube \u201cExplore\u201d page for \u201cPodcasts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Back in March, a leaked presentation revealed YouTube&#8217;s plans for a \u201cpodcast destination page.\u201d  YouTube.com\/podcasts is now live and is linked to on the existing Explore page alongside: Trending, Music, Movies &#038; Shows, Live, Gaming, News, Sports, Learning, and Fashion &#038; Beauty.  It appears to have first gone live in late July, and is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamYouTube\/status\/1552766515191103489\" target=\"_blank\">slowly becoming more widely available<\/a> as it&#8217;s not showing up for all users we checked with today.<\/p>\n<p>Available on desktop web and mobile, it&#8217;s very rudimentary at this point.  There are carousels, which can be expanded via \u201cShow all,\u201d for \u201cPopular episodes,\u201d \u201cPopular podcast playlists,\u201d \u201cRecommended,\u201d and \u201cPopular podcast creators.\u201d  The rest of this page links to various categories: Comedy, True Crime, Sports, Music, and TV &#038; Film.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re just browsing through regular video thumbnails rather than anything more optimized.  Meanwhile, tapping one just opens the regular player on Android, and doesn&#8217;t even default to the \u201cListening controls\u201d available for YouTube Premium subscribers.  You get large buttons and shortcuts to like, save, and quickly adjust playback speed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:100.00000%\">\n<figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The podcast experience for end users will presumably get more optimized over time, while it remains to be seen what the UI in YouTube Music is going to be.  Hopefully, it&#8217;s out of the way for people that just want to use that application for songs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Google Podcasts will presumably be folded into this rather than existing as a separate app.  That&#8217;s a shame as that experience, which is part of Search, was quite simple and efficient.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-more-on-youtube\">More on YouTube:<\/h2>\n<p><em>Thanks Jon!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- youtube embed --><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Z Fold 4 hands-on: MINOR tweaks...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/epa-7QEDVRE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube organically became a place for distributing and watching\/listening to podcasts, and the Google video service is widely expected to offer a more optimized experience. This is starting with a YouTube \u201cExplore\u201d page for \u201cPodcasts.\u201d Back in March, a leaked presentation revealed YouTube&#8217;s plans for a \u201cpodcast destination page.\u201d YouTube.com\/podcasts is now live and is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtube%e2%80%a4com-podcasts-goes-live-as-explore-page\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTube\u2024com\/podcasts goes live as &#8216;Explore&#8217; page<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53781,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtube-launches-a-dedicated-podcasts-homepage-for-us-users-techcrunch\/","url_meta":{"origin":52709,"position":0},"title":"YouTube launches a dedicated podcasts homepage for US users \u2013 TechCrunch","date":"August 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this year, dedicated reports that YouTube would soon add a homepage \u2014 a serious signal the company was getting more about its investments in podcasts and the potential name revenue they could deliver. 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