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Facebook is giving up on podcasts

That didn't take very long.
By Stan Schroeder  on 
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Facebook is shutting down its podcast platform.

According to Bloomberg(opens in a new tab), Facebook will remove podcasts from its service starting June 3. The company will shut down the ability for users to add podcasts as early as this week.

If the question you have right now is "wait, Facebook had podcasts?" we hear you, and that's probably why the service is shutting down. Facebook added podcasts to its site while the market was hot (perhaps too hot), in April last year. You may remember the news of Spotify paying a massive amount of money to Joe Rogan to switch to their podcast platform in May 2020, and Amazon acquiring podcast platform Wondery(opens in a new tab) in December 2020.

Facebook confirmed the news to Bloomberg, though it wouldn't say when, exactly, the podcasts were being shut down. As for Audio Rooms, which is a related feature that let users launch audio chats, it will be integrated into Facebook Live, which will simply display an option to go live with video and audio, or audio only.

Soundbites(opens in a new tab), which allows users to share short audio messages, is also being shut down.

Facebook and its parent company Meta seem much more interested in immersive experiences and video than audio formats right now. The company has recently launched Reels, a short video format previously available on Instagram, globally on Facebook(opens in a new tab), promoting it strongly inside the app.

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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.


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