[plorkyeran]

Spotify could require that content creators upload ad-free versions of their podcasts for premium users. This would probably require a significantly higher subscription fee to support much larger payments to the podcast creators.

[SecurityLagoon]

Podcasts are generally accessed as a syndication service. Except for ones actually contracted by Spotify, like Joe Rogan, they are just importing them from RSS like everyone else.

[plorkyeran]

Yes, this would have to be a new thing which they did.