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What is particularly irksome is that it imploded pretty directly as a result of the Spotify merger.
by jszymborski 3y ago
What is particularly irksome is that it imploded pretty directly as a result of the Spotify merger.
- legitster 3y agoYeah, what an embarrassing failure all around. It's hard to imagine what Spotify was even thinking with their strategy there. They paid all of this money for Reply All just to give it away for free, then made all of the tiny little shows exclusives? And started cancelling shows because they had no audience?
- jszymborski 3y agoI adored Heavyweight, but the moment they went Spotify exclusive, I stopped listening. I'm the sort of person who will donate to Maximum Fun, and I'd even pay for Heavyweight (e.g. Patreon or some other way that let's me have RSS feeds), but when you wall up your services is when I'll stop listening. I hope Jonathan Goldstein does some cool stuff for less shitty patrons.
- Kye 3y agoI think co-ops are the right model for podcasts. Maximum Fun got it right. There isn't enough money in podcasting for the quarterly earnings treadmill, but there is enough to keep a roster of niche shows running with the ad buying, fundraising, and cross-promotion power of a large network.