Spotify adding podcasts

[yakk0dotorg]

I saw this over on the Podcasting subreddit and thought I'd bring it up here to see what everyone's take is. Spotify just announced they are adding videos and podcasts to their directory. It looks to me like it's only podcasts from approved partners, but I haven't seen if that's the case or not. Hopefully they do open it up because it's another huge cross-platform player that could open up podcasts to a larger audience.

sources:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/spotify-introduces-video-clips-podcasts-and-activity-based-playlists/
http://www.androidheadlines.com/page/2
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/05/20/podcasts-are-coming-to-spotify/

[andrewzarian]

Its interesting that they are only opening it up to a few brands first. This might be the start of the separation a lot of people have been discussing (Mainstream vs Independent)