There's more concentration in the labels, which makes it harder for spotifying, apple music to get in an argument and cut it off. In what actually happened in the cable industry overtime was more and more consolidation on the sort of channel side. The reason is because they are a business that can't be dragged into this kicking and screaming by internet assumptions.
Ben and James discuss Spotify’s move into podcasts and integration and modularity in value chains.
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- 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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