BBC removes it’s podcasts from Google’s podcast app and Google assistant

Google has since begun to direct people who search for a BBC podcast into its own podcast service, rather than BBC Sounds or other third party services, which reduces people’s choice – an approach that the BBC is not comfortable with and has consistently expressed strong concerns about. Unfortunately, given the way the Google podcast service operates, we can’t do any of the above. We don’t like removing our content from services and certainly don’t do it lightly – but unfortunately until Google changes the way they look at this, for the good of listeners, our podcasts will not be available on some of their services.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk