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Does Spotify automatically pull in podcasts wether or not the people that made it want to be on the platform or not? However I think the part missing (which ag

Does Spotify automatically pull in podcasts wether or not the people that made it want to be on the platform or not? However I think the part missing (which again I am trying to fully understand what is happening here, their website really glosses over what is happening) is if Spotify was pulling podcasts from a place that served their own ads to instead serve Spotify ads without compensating where they got it from. Which my understanding here, is what Musi is doing.

pentamassiv 2y ago
Yes, as far as I know they have their own podcast index and list "all" podcasts. There are some Spotify exclusive "podcasts" that are only available to Spotify users. Sure, as far as I know Spotify doesn't block the authors ads but they add ads to podcasts where there are none. The average user doesn't know that Spotify is responsible for that and might stop listening. Some podcasters intentionally publish the first episodes ad free to grow their listener base