Google Podcasts is one of the many free services offered by Google. It debuted as an Android application in June 2018. Nearly three years after its launch, the app has achieved a huge milestone that other podcast app developers could have ever dreamt of.
Back in November 2020, the Google Podcasts Android app became the first podcasts app to hit 50 million installs on the Play Store. Now, only about five months later, this number has doubled.
As a result, Google Podcasts has become the first-ever podcast app to reach over 100 million downloads on the Play Store. For comparison, most other popular podcast apps are only around 10 million+ to 1 milllion+ mark. It is worth noting that we are only talking about standalone dedicated podcast apps.
Almost a year after the release of the Google Podcasts Android app, a web version of the service was announced at Google I/O 2019. At the end of that year, the Android application was not only uplifted with the material theme but also got dark mode.
The Google Podcasts now even has an iOS app, which was released in March 2020. In other words, Google’s free-to-use podcast service is available on all the popular platforms.
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