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An interview with Spotify’s Maya Prohovnik

Podcast |: Podnews Daily
Publisher |: Podnews LLC
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Business,; Business News,; Podcasting,; Podcasts,; Tech News,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: Daily News,; News,; Technology
Publication Date |: Oct 04, 2024
Episode Duration |: 00:04:32

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Exclusive: What’s the future of podcasting in Spotify? Is video necessary for every show? Why is Spotify so successful? And how important is open RSS to Spotify? We had questions for Spotify’s VP of Podcast Product, Maya Prohovnik; and she had answers.
- Her interview with us coincides with a new release of Spotify’s Fan Study, which focuses on video podcasts.
There’s a bug in Apple Podcasts in iOS 18, which is marking shows as “played” when the user hasn’t, actually, played them.
- Apple Podcasts tells Podnews that the company is aware of the issue; there’s a fix coming in iOS 18.1.
Axios has noticed the podcast capability in Google’s NotebookLM. It ends: “Anthropomorphic tech will always wow us — for a time, at least. But these tricks quickly become first mundane and eventually dull and passé.” The tool now works with YouTube videos.

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