Facebook’s Podcast Service is Shutting Down! Just a Year After its Launch?

Facebook's podcast service is shutting down next month, roughly a year after it launched to its users in June 2021.

Facebook's Podcast Service

The social media giant is currently pulling out its podcast content as it plans to completely shut down the service starting June 3, as per a news story Engadget.

On top of that, Facebook is no longer accepting new podcast content starting this week as it gears up for the end of its podcasting business.

The giant social network is bowing down to other competing podcasting platforms, such as Apple Music and Spotify, which had taken a huge bulk of the market, according to a recent report by 9to5Mac.

The rodeo of the social media firm of tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg, launched last year when the giant streaming service, Spotify, was starting to get exclusive content creators.

In addition to that, the podcasting service of the iPhone maker also announced that it would be offering subscriptions to its existing content.

That said, Facebook dipped itself into the world of podcasting services, competing with massive names like Spotify and Apple Music, among other emerging platforms.

Facebook Podcast Bids Farewell

A year after the Zuckerberg social media tried entering the podcasting business, it is now pulling out of the race, as per the latest report by Bloomberg.

What's more, Facebook is also letting go of its short-form audio service that goes by the name Soundbites and its central audio hub.

The spokesperson of Meta said in a statement to Bloomberg that they are "constantly evaluating the features we offer so we can focus on the most meaningful experiences."

Although Facebook's podcasting service is already completely bidding goodbye on June 3, the social media giant has yet to provide the shutdown date of both Soundbites and the audio hub.

But the Zuckerberg firm said that it is letting go of the two in the "coming weeks."

Meanwhile, Facebook reportedly told its partners on the podcasting service that it would not notify its users that their podcasts are leaving the social media giant.

Instead, the parent firm of FB, Meta, told its partners that it is up to them if they would like to tell their listeners about the massive changes coming their way.

It should also give them the chance to tell their fans where they could continue listening to their content. Perhaps, these folks on Facebook Podcasts will most likely be heard on Spotify or Apple Music.

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Written by Teejay Boris