How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom.
How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom.
In Latin America, “podcast” and “Spotify” became synonymous; now the audio industry is reckoning with the company’s retreat.
Spotify is hostile to making culture happen at home. I urge everyone to get off it
Canceled back when they offered Joe Rogan $Texas to make everyone stupider.
Any suggestions for alternatives? I switched to Apple Music a while back because it allows me play my own files on any of my devices, but for obvious reasons I’d prefer something else.
Use AntennaPod. Free, open source and allows you to subscribe to all free podcasts. It has a search over three podcast indices included, which gives you anything that is openly available on the web.
pocket cast has an ios version.
used the android app for many years.I've been enjoying Tidal after switching.
SoundCloud?
I don't see the issue here.
I detest what Spotify has been, and is doing, to artists, but this isn't that.
Spotify jump started a market by infusing it with cash, and then ran out of cash. It sounds similar to when a patron of the arts no longer has the funds available for patronage.
Yes, it sucks for those people who lost their funding, but podcasts are profitable all over without the infusion of cash from Spotify.
I realize that those with a large overhead, or those who are otherwise just unable to adapt, are in a shit situation, but I suspect the rest of them, and those that follow, will adopt the monetization strategies of other successful podcast markets.
Also, who the fuck wants to use the Spotify app for podcasts? Jesus I would never subject myself to that, they'll be better off for it in no time.
This seems a reach. Podcasting (MP3 files distributed by an RSS feed) is platform agnostic.
To me, claiming that any platform is "killing" any demographic's podcasting capability is screaming "I know absolutely nothing about podcasts".
YMMV. 🤷🏽♂️
The classic debate
"Any audio you put on your iPod that isn't music is a podcast."
Hadn't seen that before. Love it. 😄