Opinion: Spotify Now Decides Which Bits Of Your Show Are Worth Hearing
Spotify has secretly built a button that tells your listener which bits of your episode aren't worth hearing. It's called Skip Ahead. It's in testing, they haven't announced it, and the excellent podcast industry journalist James Cridland broke it on Podnews. One tap and you're past the entire ad break — not fifteen…
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