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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by TylerE on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:16PM (#22286167)
Lots of podcasts already serve different afs to different listeners. That’s old tech.
Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by rocqua on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:23AM (#22288852)
Really? How does that work with RSS feeds?
Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by chungus_khan on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:47AM (#22289519)
Upon receiving the HTTP request from a podcast client, render a new version of the MP3 file with an up-to-date advert inserted. This version can be cached for a pre-specified period and then replaced later. You can't really get any tracking information to do dynamically targeted ads from the request, but for a podcast this doesn't matter much, as the hosts are typically aware enough of their listener demographic.
Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by zchrykng on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:39AM (#22290664)
Dynamic Ad Insertion. The file server guesses your location/demographic based on the user agent and ip address and then splices ads into the mp3 as it is sent to you.