[raverbashing]

"Don't call it a movie if it's only on Netflix?" I think the Academy (or was it some movie festival) tried to pull that one. Didn't work.

We can discuss the (de)merits of being Spotify only, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a podcast.

[tobr]

More something like, “don’t call it a Blu-ray movie if you can’t play it on a Blu-ray player”. Feel free to call it a “show” or whatever, but if you can’t play it in a podcast player, how is it meaningfully a podcast?

Edit: Probably a much better movie analogy would be “Don’t say you’re shooting film if you‘re using a digital camera”.

[foota]

I don't think the common usage of the term really refers to the particulars of the technology involved.

[ornornor]

I read parent’s “only” not as if to say “it’s not as good quality because it could only manage to be on Spotify” but rather that it’s inaccessible to anyone not using Spotify ie it’s exclusively on that platform.