YouTube allows you to discover podcasts in a new section of the Explore tab

22 Aug. (Portaltic/EP) –

Youtube has integrated a new section called ‘Podcasts’ in the tab ‘Explore’a section of the Google video service in which the most popular content of the platform is available according to the theme, such as video games or sports.

The company showed its interest in the podcasting business a few months ago, when a document was leaked detailing the ideas and services it would offer in the future on the platform.

So, YouTube mentioned two concepts, Ingestion (‘Ingestion’), referring to podcast uploads, and Search and Discovery (‘Search and discover’), and also advanced the domain for the podcast sectionwhich was not operational at the time.

Now from 9to5Google they have anticipated that this (YouTube.com/podcasts) is already active for some users and, in turn, is linked to the ‘Explore’ page, a section in which they are already other sections such as ‘Trends’, ‘Fashion and beauty’, ‘Music’, ‘Movies’ or ‘Live’.

This portal has indicated that the domain can be opened both on the desktop and on the mobile and that it is presented in a carousel format, which offers options like ‘Show All’, ‘Popular Episodes’, ‘Popular Podcast Playlists’, ‘Recommended’ and ‘Popular Podcast Creators’.

At the moment, this section presents a poorly optimized interface, since when choosing one of these programs in ‘streaming’ the player opens on Android and they are not activated by default listening controlsas verified by 9to5Google.

It is also not known what the user interface of the podcast section will be like in YouTube Music and it is believed that this section will be integrated into the platforminstead of working as a stand-alone application.