Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 235, dated November 19, 2019.
Spotify launches a personalized podcast playlist feature. In a move that builds on its various adventures in playlisting, the aspiring all-consuming audio platform is rolling out a new podcast discovery feature that’s more or less Discover Weekly but for podcasts. It’s pretty much what you think it is: an algorithmically driven tool that analyzes a user’s podcast consumption and behavior — recent streams, follows, etc. — to generate a playlist of podcast episodes that may be of interest.
The feature, called Your Daily Podcasts, launches today, and it’s accessible by both free and premium Spotify users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, the U.S., and the U.K. Something to note: Users can only use the feature if they’ve listened to at least four podcasts within the past 90 days.
On one hand, I’m interested to see where this goes, speaking as…
