Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 – 12:01 am
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Pod One Out
Last week, Spotify introduced a feature – one that listeners have been clamoring for – that effectively skips certain segments of a podcast. In other words, it can be used to bypass the ads.
In private conversations late last week, Spotify had, as Semafor puts it, “some more- and less-convincing answers” for large podcast networks and publishers about the change. And, to be fair, Spotify execs described the new skip button as part of an early test, so it could be walked back.
