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Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
- If Spotify gains enough market share then it will effectively become the de facto gatekeeper of podcasts (similar to how Google Play is the de facto gatekeeper of Android apps despite side loading and alternative app stores). Once that happens many of the benefits of podcasts will be destroyed. Creators will no longer have full creative freedom as ... See more
from Spotify is trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish open podcasting by Kyle Piira
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- I can see a similar future for podcasts: Spotify, if they are successful, may end up being the biggest player, but that doesn’t mean new and different business models that directly link suppliers and consumers won’t emerge. It will, in other words, look like everything else touched by the Internet: very large winners on one end, and small niche win... See more
from Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play by Ben Thompson
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- Will podcasts go away?
In a world where every podcast includes video, every platform supports video, and video-first shows are more engaging for users (and therefore more valuable for creators), it’s fair to wonder if people will stop making “podcasts” as we know them today. Today a podcast is an episode of audio content featuring people talking. T... See morefrom All Podcast Roads Lead to Video by Michael Mignano