Some user experience around podcasts that I think should be adressed. Idea 1: news podcasts I like to listen for news (let's take an example, I play FT News Briefing every morning). However, when I click the big button in the middle to play. When I do this, the first ever episode plays. There may be podcasts where it makes sense to start in the beginning (ex: storytelling, fiction) but news it should default to the latest news. Idea 2: latest episodes view if possible I would like to have, when choosing the "Podcasts" part, apart from Sorted by Name/Recently Added, another view where I can see which are the last episodes to be updated - otherwise I need to click each individual podcast to see if, despite being sorted by new episodes, it really has new episodes. I really want to like and enjoy Spotify, and I like it to listen to music, but I feel in some ways the podcast part is lacking and that some heavy podcast listeners like me would appreciate. For example, perhaps a button on a corner that switches to "advanced podcast mode"? Perhaps some podcast editors would like to add rich text and images to an episodes on top of a description. If you are creating so many podcasts in your ecosystem (see: Anchor is yours), why don't use the opportunity for an enriched and user experience. Allow the podcast creators to add podcasts, reactions... I don't know... As a Spotify user AND investor in the stock, I feel there is so much potential that I would love you to be more experimental 🙂
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