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• The New York Times is to make its premium, paid podcasts available for NYT subscribers on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Spotify and Apple Podcasts listeners can connect their subscriptions wherever they bought NYT access. It’s in addition to the NYT Audio app - you can subscribe separately to just the podcasts if you’d like. It’s reported that most archive editions of the podcasts will go behind the paywall. We corrected an earlier version of this story about connecting your subscriptions within Apple Podcasts. It works however you purchased your NYT subscription.
• Spotify are releasing updates today to the way the app displays paid podcasts. Non-subscribers will now see all free episodes and locked bonus episodes in one spot — so they know exactly what they’re missing out on. Subscribers will see all premium versions of the episodes, all bonus subscriber episodes, plus any free episodes that weren’t also published to the subscriber feed. It should streamline the experience for listeners.
• A year on from Spotify’s integration with Patreon, Spotify tells us that nearly half the podcasters earning money on Patreon are using the Spotify Open Access integration: and on average, those creators have seen 15% of their Spotify listeners who visited their Patreon page go on to sign up for a paid membership. (Podnews is on Patreon).

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