Spotify add star ratings; buy another podcast host

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  • Spotify has added star ratings to its app for podcasts; rolling out in their apps from today. Anchor has more details on how to use it.

    • If listeners try to rate a show they haven’t listened-to (for at least thirty seconds), they’ll be told to listen first. You can rate a show on Apple Podcasts without listening at all.
    • Ratings are shown once a show has ten ratings or more. The number for Apple Podcasts is five.
    • Ratings are global; Apple Podcasts has separate ratings for each country. (Spotify hasn’t launched ratings in Russia or Turkey, however - both countries with tight media laws).
    • Could you please rate us?
  • Spotify has purchased another podcast hosting company: Australia’s Whooshkaa. The first non-US podcast host to achieve IAB certification, Whooshkaa also has technology that automatically makes podcasts from radio broadcasts. It will be integrated into Megaphone.

    • Podland co-host Sam Sethi uses Whooshkaa for River Radio. In the latest episode of Podland, our Editor, James Cridland, asks Sam how it works and what Spotify could see in it.
  • Data: Why would Spotify want to bring more radio shows to their platform by buying Whooshkaa? Some numbers: 92% of US adults listen to radio every week; 28% listen to podcasts. 46% of all US audio listening (by time) is to AM/FM/satellite radio; 6% is to podcasts. US AM/FM radio brings in $14.1bn of yearly ad revenue (in 2019); US podcasting is around $824m (2020).

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