What is Spotify doing with podcasts, exactly? The company is entering the “next phase” of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes?
  • baconeaterEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just wish Spotify focused entirely on music. I have not, and will never listen to podcasts on it and yet they are continuously promoted on my feed.

    • TheMartianYachtClubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think podcasts, like music, should be separate from the hosting platforms. I do listen to podcasts but I’m not choosing my streaming service based on podcast. If it’s not on Spotify or YouTube, I’m not gonna listen to it. I wish companies could thrive without having to continuously grow/expand so they didn’t have to take these risks which end up harming user experience.

  • infomofoEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The spotify interface for podcasts is totally unintuitive- when I open my normal podcast app (like PocketCasts or Apple Podcasts) the first thing I want to see is a reverse chronological feed of the recent episodes from podcasts I’m subscribed to- this is kind of the basic functionality I expect from any podcast player. Spotify makes me have to hunt for which podcasts I’m subscribed to, and I can never find a consistent way to find this information.

    I imagine that my fumbling taps to find the information I want count as “engagement” and “active screen time” from the spotify app analysis so their product team registers my frustration as a win on their side, but it’s really one of the strangest interfaces I’ve ever had to deal with. I only use the spotify podcast interface for the exclusives on the platform, for others I am still using apple podcasts or PocketCasts.