[bloogsy]

I think it could possibly ruin the 'big budget', glossy podcasts in the mould of Serial as they take more money to produce and I'd imagine they are more reliant on ad income.

It may also be more accurate to suggest that Spotify will ruin American podcasting - I can't see UK podcasts (particularly those that are BBC-funded) going spotify only, and iPhones (and probably by extension the podcasts app) are only a huge market share in the US.

Here's hoping that the independently funded and smaller podcasts will continue to exist outisde of Spotify.

[Traster]

Yeah the BBC podcasts aren't going to go exclusive, but instead they've launched their own podcast app and piss everyone off by going on about it constantly.

[boygobbo]

They might go exclusive to BBC Sounds. The BBC has already started pulling its services from those they perceive to be competitors, like TuneIn[1] and Google Podcast[2].

[1] https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/08/bbc-to-pull-all-radio-servi...

[2] https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/03/27/bbc-removes-podcasts...