YouTube has added a new “Explore” page for podcasts to make it easier to find podcasts. Although the addition has not been officially announced, I noticed intense eyes And he drew attention to his new dedicated podcast section.
The new Explore page for podcasts may help increase your podcast’s visibility.
Explore the pages
Explore pages are higher level categories, such as MusicAnd sportsAnd comedy.
The audience-based menu navigation makes it easy to browse the type of content they’re interested in, and once there, they can browse through the different selections.
The menus for accessing the Explore pages are located at the top left of the page from the link labeled “Explore” and at the bottom along the left navigation bar in the “Explore” section.
Screenshot of links to the YouTube Explore pages
The Explore New Podcasts page cannot be accessed from the side menu.
Podcasts category page link can only be accessed through the main Explore category page.
One has to first click through to the main navigation page through the link which can be accessed in the top left corner.
Screenshot of a link to the YouTube Explore page
The main Explore page contains a text and icon menu that includes a link to the new Podcasts page, located in the lower-right corner of the menu section.
Screenshot of the navigation page menu with the podcast link highlighted
Clicking the icon takes the visitor to the new Podcasts page.
Screenshot of the new podcast page
The new Discover Podcasts page has nine podcast categories to explore:
- popular episodes
- Popular podcast playlists
- Recommended
Based on your subscriptions and history - Famous podcast creators
- comedy
- True crime
- sports
- Music
- Television and cinema
The only categories that have a page dedicated to exploring podcasts for the specific topic are:
- popular episodes
- Popular podcast playlists
- Famous podcast creators
Audiences can visit a full page of podcasts in the Popular Episodes category:
Screenshot from the popular episodes page
But they can’t do the same for the topics of comedy, true crime, sports, music, TV, and movies.
For those categories that lack a dedicated category page, podcast audiences have to use a side swipe to explore more podcasts within the topic.
Podcasts are popular on YouTube
according to 2022 study by Edison ResearchYouTube is the most popular platform for listening to podcasts, and Spotify comes in second.
It is worth noting in this statistic that YouTube reached this level of popularity without a dedicated category for podcasts.
The new Podcasts Explore page isn’t featured on the YouTube homepage, and there are no podcast categories dedicated to topics like sports, music, True Crime, or comedy.
Because of the seemingly incomplete navigation, there is a sense of work in progress.
Screenshots by the author
Featured image by Shutterstock / Andrey Sayfutdinov
