Apple Video Podcasts Might Stop Me From Going to YouTube

It’s slightly old news, but Apple is making video podcasts more of a thing within the Apple Podcasts apps.

At least on mine, the homepage of the discovery tabs now shows video feeds in a very prominent position.

Now, I personally see this as being late to the party. Yes, video podcast RSS feeds have always been available to use within Apple Podcasts (I have a few, mostly from TWiT). But I’m old enough to remember Miro / Democracy Player and Odeo - where I first realised how much I could like a clean feed of video shows.

(I sometimes feel like I’m the only person weird enough to remember things like this - let me know if you are weird too!)

Apple’s push is welcome for me, as long as it doesn’t come as part of a strategy to put walls around the podcasting garden. Anything that stops me opening up YouTube for video is appreciated (I’ll just get lost for hours).