YouTube is taking its subsequent steps into podcasting, with a brand new check of the capability to add and handle podcasts within the YouTube Studio app.

As per YouTube:

“To make it simpler for creators to distribute their podcasts on YouTube, we’re operating an experiment that permits you to create a podcast or set an current playlist as a podcast inside Studio.”

These within the experiment will be capable of add a podcast throughout the ‘Create’ factor of YouTube Studio. You’ll additionally be capable of view all your podcasts within the ‘Content material’ menu underneath a brand new Podcasts tab.

Along with this, YouTube’s additionally testing new podcast analytics, which can present podcast-specific efficiency insights, making it simpler to measure your podcast content material in separation out of your video uploads.

YouTube’s been progressively creating extra podcast instruments, because it strikes to align with rising audio utilization. YouTube Music now has greater than 77 million paying subscribers, and whereas visible parts stay central to the platform’s broader providing, there’s clearly vital curiosity in audio-only content material as properly.

Final August, some customers reported that they’d entry to a brand new podcast web page within the app.

With many fashionable YouTubers additionally now operating their very own podcasts, it is smart for YouTube to broaden its horizons on this route, and supply a extra complete media providing for its artistic expertise – which additionally now consists of each quick and long-form video.

It’s nonetheless transferring slowly on podcasts, however this new addition is one other step in that expanded route.