Spotify helps new listeners discover podcasts

Spotify helps new listeners discover podcasts

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  • Getting people to listen to their first podcast is important: so it’s good to see that Spotify is adding a new feature for users who don’t yet listen to podcasts. “Get podcasts for you” is now appearing in the app, encouraging non-listeners to use a topic picker to find podcasts that will interest them most. This appears for Spotify Free users in the US, Germany, UK, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and New Zealand. (Podnews is on Spotify).


    Aug 19 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Google Podcasts is adding a “recommended” tab, containing personalised recommended episodes, according to AndroidPolice (note: episodes, not entire podcast feeds). It seems a test: we don’t see the feature yet. (Podnews is on Google Podcasts).

    • 18 months after the launch of Google Podcasts, Google Play Music Podcasts, an unconnected and competing Google-branded podcast player, is still available.
  • Birds. Graceful in flight, but really noisy. Spotted on Twitter (where else?), DeBird is standalone software that removes bird noises with a single click from your recordings. Sadly, it’s not very cheep.

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