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
  
• Episode 185 — Open, Free, and Spotify — Exponent
  
• Ben Thompson: Podcasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery
  
• Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
  
• Ben Thompson: Dithering and Open Versus Free — Stratechery
  
• Ben Thompson: Spotify Earnings, Podcasts and Lifetime Value, The Ringer Acquisition — Stratechery
  
• Ben Thompson: The European Super League, Apple Music’s Letter to Artists — Stratechery
  
• Ben Thompson: Podcast Subscriptions vs. the App Store — Stratechery
  
• Ben Thompson: Fearing Spotify?, Apple’s Earnings, Margins and Chips — Stratechery
  

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
  
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review
  

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