Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. But now YouTube — the world’s biggest video platform — might be the biggest platform for podcasts. According to the Google-owned video giant, YouTube now has more than 1 billion monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide.

YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. In an YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space,

More than 1 billion people a month are viewing podcast content on YouTube, the result of an investment push that has made the Alphabet Inc. platform the most popular service for podcasts in the US. “We’ve seen a lot of growth,

YouTube says podcasts now draw 1 billion monthly active viewers, a new sign of the Google-owned video giant’s scale and room for more growth as it embarks on its third decade. The figure is extrapolated from another statistic,

It is the biggest player in town. The streaming video platform on Wednesday disclosed that it now has one billion monthly active users watching podcast content, an astonishing number that makes it the biggest podcast platform in the world.