• ikt
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    9 days ago

    Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this

    Most of my podcasts don’t but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don’t want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it’s a way of punishing us for not using their app

    Then again besides the ABC’s If you’re listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones…

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        9 days ago

        I don’t care for podcasts at all, it’s just because they’re adjacent to the app I use the most that I stumbled upon them, the ones I listen to don’t have ads except the abc’s if you’re listening and it’s what, 30 seconds for something I listen to maybe once a month?

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      18 days ago

      Did they stop just grabbing podcasts from the free web and playing them in Spotify? I remember from a few years ago that some podcasts were complaining and willing to sue Spotify for stealing their content.

      • ikt
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        28 days ago

        I can’t find anything on this at all

        • jeffep
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          18 days ago

          That was some discourse in the podcasts, in Germany at the time which has a pretty big community