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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by rchaud on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:16AM (#22289771)
> An audio program that doesn’t publish an RSS feed that I can subscribe to in my podcast player of choice isn’t a podcast.

I think the risk is that Spotify can throw a big bundle of money to a podcast that is currently listed on a feed, and bring them into a walled garden where the only way to hear them is on Spotify.

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by scarface74 on Monday February 10, 2020 @10:27AM (#22289885)
Have you seen Spotify’s financials? They are a public company now, they can’t get round after round of VC money and have make believe valuations.
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