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The Growing Battle Over How to Define a ‘Podcast’

As YouTube pushes deeper into podcasting and Spotify pursues video, once-distinct business lines are getting increasingly blurry

Photographer: Felix Gillette/Bloomberg
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Hello, hello. Welcome back to Soundbite. Today, we’ll dive into the conversation rankling the podcast industry — in a world where YouTube is seemingly the dominant platform, and Spotify is moving into video, what even is a podcast anymore? And why does that definition matter?

But first, here are some stories I’m reading: