From Podcasts to Paidcasts? Emm… Spotify never fails to push the fucking envelope further. Thanks. Uninstalled. Bye.

www.theverge.com/platform/amp/21265005/spotify-joe-rogan-experience-podcast-deal-apple-gimlet-media-ringer?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true MUST-READ (5 min) The podcasting world is now Spotify versus everybody else (by Ashley Carman)

In what’s likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast, Spotify announced this week that Joe Rogan’s enormously successful show, The Joe Rogan Experience, will become a Spotify-exclusive. Combined with a blockbuster spree of other podcast acquisitions over the last year and a half, the company is now set up to become the biggest name in podcasting — and to possibly control podcasting in an unprecedented way. … ⇢ Read more