Like lots of its contemporaries, YouTube Music will quickly be including podcasts to its library of audio and video content material. YouTube’s head of podcasting, Kai Chuk, confirmed to The Verge that the characteristic is arriving “within the close to future.”
Podcasts shall be out there to all customers, free or Premium, and free tiers will get the standard ad-supported playback with background audio help. Audio-first exhibits may even get a particular podcast badge to spotlight them.
“If somebody needs to look at a podcast, we’ve an answer,” Chuk stated. “If somebody needs to take heed to a podcast solely, we should always have an important expertise for that as effectively.”
YouTube at the moment is not including unique exhibits or licensed originals. As an alternative, it claims to concentrate on its creators and YouTube customers.
