Podcasting Trends to Watch: Could Spotify’s New Discovery Tool Get You More Listeners?

About this episode

The episode discusses Spotify's new AI-curated playlists and their potential impact on podcast discovery and listener growth.

Spotify has rolled out AI-curated playlists that claim to match listeners with shows like yours. Sounds like a win for podcast discovery... but is it? In this podcasting trends episode, I test podcasting tools like this one and give you the unfiltered breakdown of whether they’ll help you grow your show or not. You’ll see whether AI-curated playlists are here to stay and how Spotify decides who get recommended. If you want to know whether Spotify’s AI-curated playlists are worth your time (or...

People in this episode

Host: Courtney Elmer

Topics covered

• podcasting trends
• Spotify
• AI technology
• podcast discovery
• listener growth

Keywords

• podcasting
• Spotify
• AI playlists
• podcast growth
• listener engagement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spotify

Products: AI-curated playlists

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