Paid podcast works like a newsletter. There's a paywall on the web side, and you get an email. Is it leaky? Can people for the email? Yes. And so i guess this brings it nicely to why we left spotted five, right? Third, 30 minutes the conversation, but it all recaf of our previous podcasts were terrible. Whell yot. Because the issue is that we like so shceery, wanted to have a pay pocest,. You pay for sceeran, you could listen to a podcess. I gess its got itself explanatory.
Ben and James discuss the history of podcasts and why Spotify’s recent announcements are so compelling for creators.
Links
- Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Surprise — Stratechery
- Episode 185 — Open, Free, and Spotify — Exponent
- Ben Thompson: Podcasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Dithering and Open Versus Free — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Spotify Earnings, Podcasts and Lifetime Value, The Ringer Acquisition — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The European Super League, Apple Music’s Letter to Artists — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Podcast Subscriptions vs. the App Store — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Fearing Spotify?, Apple’s Earnings, Margins and Chips — Stratechery
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