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Ek: Over 150 million people listen to podcasts on Spotify
“And today there's over a hundred and fifty million people listening to podcast on Spotify.”
Ek: German labels hacking Spotify to upload audiobooks prompted podcast expansion
“What happened in Germany is all the record companies started uploading audiobooks to the service. So they started hacking the system for all these other things, and when they ran out of that, they actually started uploading podcasts.”
Ek: Avicii was a brilliant composer who could not play instruments
“Take someone like you know, Swedish Avicii as an example. He was a brilliant composer. He truly was. But he didn't really know how to play any instruments.”
Ek: Spotify had only a few million podcast listeners in 2019
“In 2019 you know, when we got into podcasts the world around podcast listening and Spotify, there was a few million people listening to this.”
Ek: Spotify has way north of half a billion users
“What we realized is we should use this base of what was then several hundred million people and today's way north of half a billion people and just serve them more stuff.”