Apple podcast is by far the most listened to er. Apple has shown no appetite to sort of move in this space, which is really surprising given their focus on services. Spotifi coming in and saying, well, there's an opportunity for centralization. But you have a field with lots of interesting and good stuff everywhere,. There's lots of problems to be it's not very easy to discover stuff. The more that we're doing all of it, the more we can get that swirl towards the centre happening.
Ben and James discuss Spotify’s move into podcasts and integration and modularity in value chains.
Links
- Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Lessons From Spotify — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Podcasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The Future of Podcasting — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The BuzzFeed Lesson — Stratechery
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