Episode 194 — Back on Spotify

Ben and James discuss the history of podcasts and why Spotify’s recent announcements are so compelling for creators.

Links

• Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Surprise — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/spotifys-surprise)

• Episode 185 — Open, Free, and Spotify — Exponent (exponent.fm/episode-185-open-free-and-spotify)

• Ben Thompson: Podcasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/podcasts-analytics-and-ce…)

• Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/spotifys-podcast-aggregat…)

• Ben Thompson: Dithering and Open Versus Free — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2020/dithering-and-the-open-web)

• Ben Thompson: Spotify Earnings, Podcasts and Lifetime Value, The Ringer Acquisition — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2020/spotifys-earnings-podcast…)

• Ben Thompson: The European Super League, Apple Music’s Letter to Artists — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/the-european-super-league…)

• Ben Thompson: Podcast Subscriptions vs. the App Store — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/podcast-subscriptions-vs-…)

• Ben Thompson: Fearing Spotify?, Apple’s Earnings, Margins and Chips — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2021/fearing-spotify-apples-ea…)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

Podcast Information

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• iTunes (itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/exponent/id826420969)

• SoundCloud (soundcloud.com/exponentfm)

• Twitter (twitter.com/exponentfm)

• Feedback (stratechery.com/exponent-feedback)