The interesting quote from that first piece on Spotify - that many of the shows lost two thirds of their audience when they moved to Spotify - says it all. Spotify’s podcast experience is terrible. It loses your place in the episode a lot, and since there’s no separate tab for podcasts it’s annoying to switch between music and podcasts. I used to listen to Rogan’s podcast regularly - now it’s rare. And anyone else exclusive to Spotify essentially doesn’t exist for me. Acquired’s interview of Enk drove me nuts because they acted like his podcast play was genius when it was an abject failure.
The interesting quote from that first piece on Spotify - that many of the shows lost two thirds of their audience when they moved to Spotify - says it all. Spotify’s podcast experience is terrible. It loses your place in the episode a lot, and since there’s no separate tab for podcasts it’s annoying to switch between music and podcasts. I used to listen to Rogan’s podcast regularly - now it’s rare. And anyone else exclusive to Spotify essentially doesn’t exist for me. Acquired’s interview of Enk drove me nuts because they acted like his podcast play was genius when it was an abject failure.