What Spotify And YouTube Changes Mean For Podcast Revenue

Podcast: Podnews Weekly Review · James Cridland and Sam Sethi

Opublikowano: 2026-08-21

Send James and Sam a message or voicemail James is joined this week by Liam Heffernan from Mercury Podcasts, while Sam gets wet walking around Ireland. We weigh how platform decisions around ads, metrics, and video can quietly reshape podcast monetization, especially for smaller independent creators. We also zoom out to what these changes mean for trust in reporting, discoverability, and the future of open podcasting. • Mercury Podcasts’ mission to support independent shows ready to level up • Independent Podcasters Day and why indies need their own space • Spotify ad skipping tests and the...