YouTube Music Adds 'Market Has Played' Feature For Podcasts

Google Launches Mark Has Played Feature (photo: dock. Google)

JAKARTA Launched in conjunction with the voice search feature to search for songs, YouTube Music also launched the ability to tag podcast episodes that haven't been played over a new button. This button is added to the overflow menu with the name Mark Has Played. When pressing this button, users will see a short message signaling that, "A marked episode has been played". Reporting from 9to5google, this feature has been introduced by Google since December last year when the company developed a migration tool from Google Podcast to YouTube Music. After seven months of development, the Mark Has Played feature was finally released. To view this new feature, users can open any podcast containing a row of episodes. Click the vertical three-dot icon next to the podcast episode title, after which click the Mark Has Been Played or Mark Hasn't Played.

This feature is already visible on the YouTube Music mobile app for Android and iOS devices. Users with premium plans can also find the Mark Has Played button on the YouTube Music website. If you don't find this new button in the YouTube Music app, you need to update the app first. Once updated, open the podcast that you usually hear and click the vertical three-dot icon next to the episode. Although Google continues to improve the podcast feature on YouTube Music to attract more users, Google hasn't added notifications for the latest podcast episodes. To date, users have to manually open episodes to view updates.