Spotify will ask people what theyre interested in to give them podcast suggestions

Spotify wants more people to listen to podcasts, so it’s making the process of finding one that interests you even easier. Starting this week, the company will include a button on free users’ homepages that’ll ask them to pick topics that interest them in order to get podcast recommendations. The button will only show up for people in the US, Denmark, Great Britain, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Mexico, Ireland, and New Zealand who have never listened to a podcast on Spotify before, and the topic choices will differ by user and country. Spotify says show recommendations will be based off different factors, including local popularity. The launch of the button follows Spotify’s introduction of an automated, customized podcast playlist...

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