Re:Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
by tootie on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:01AM
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Slight tangent but podcasting is an interesting counterpoint. Right now the business is pretty distributed. There's no youtube for podcasts although Apple is easily number one. There is now an absolute street fight between Apple and Spotify with Google, Amazon and some other wannabes fighting to own the walled garden. And crazy consolidation for creator tools and monetization. It'll be interesting to see if a "winner" emerges or if the space stays open.
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Re:Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
by wooger on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:39AM
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From my own point of view, I've entirely abandoned and forgotten about the existence of 3 podcasts that went Spotify only. The app on both iOS and windows is a terrible implementation of podcasts, appears broken and is lacking tons of features.
I have a podcast app (Overcast) which I use for everything, and nothing that I can't subscribe to in that will ever get my ears.
Re:Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
by xorcist on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:56AM
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All other podcast networks still use Apple for discovery, so the situation isn't that far from how Youtube still is essential for creators to be discovered.
Spotify is the first serious challenger, but so far the only ones to go Spotify exclusive as the really big ones that are paid handsomely to do it.