Wasn't even aware there was a "YouTube Podcast" app. I thought they abandoned individual podcasts app and were just added it as a feature to YouTube Music, like how Spotify did to their Spotify app. YouTube Music has been relatively successful so I'm more hopeful that their podcast feature there has the best chance if they devout enough love to it. Was dead on arrival without support rss music feeds but now that they support that and you can add any podcast it has potential, but non technies will have a great amount of trouble discovering content then compared to Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And overall podcast features in YTM is very bare bones so don't see anyone switching from Apple Podcasts or Spotify ever for it, but rather just something that will help keep YTM customers with YTM.
There is not a podcast app. There is a podcast section on YouTube. And I just tried it. It ducks. I cannot miminize the player on my iPhone and let it play in the background without it shutting down.
If I wanted to play in the background, I would’ve to subscribe to YouTube and pay money.
