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MBCook on June 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Future of Podcasting

If the podcast you want is only available through Stitcher.

And it's only on Stitcher because that's Midroll's service and only Midroll ads pay well enough (this is hypothetical-future).

And they only pay well enough because of all the tracking in Stitcher.

jldugger on June 10, 2016 [–]

I'm just curious how this walled garden bootstraps. Are there Stitcher exclusives?

MBCook on June 10, 2016 | [–]

I don't know, but they could use Midroll's money to entice (or flat out buy) desirable content for bootstrapping.

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