How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric Silver
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How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting
Eric Silver
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Eric Silver to discuss Spotify’s big plan to dominate podcasting, why it’s now pulling back from those efforts, and the difference between highly produced and more independent podcasts.
Guest
Eric Silver is a podcast producer and head of development at Multitude.
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Links
- Paris will be in Christchurch on February 4 (details here) and Wellington on February 8 (details here). He’s hoping to get an Auckland date organized and is open to going to Australia.
- Spotify pulled back on its podcasting ambitions last year, canceling big shows and laying off staff.
- After buying Gimlet and Parcast, it merged them into Spotify Originals last year.
- Ashley Carman posted a slide from a Spotify presentation presenting the RSS feed as “outdated tech” because it’s harder for them to harvest data from.