- Amazon is quietly getting ready to disrupt the podcasting industry and more specifically blow away radio’s perceived built-in advantage by going commercial-free.
- A tactic that could further damage iHeart, Audacy and other radio companies.
- And there’s this: new way to make podcast discovery easier.
- Radio’s podcast infrastructure may have to be reinvented.
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