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Spotify now supports video podcasts, starting with a handful of shows that can be viewed by surmount self-ruling and premium users. The congregation communicated the news today, shibboleth that all users zone podcasts are true will be unwieldy to not personally listen to these shows but also watch them, both on desktop and mobile. For now, though, personally dominating podcasts are unwieldy to post video to Spotify; surmount podcasters won't be unwieldy to upload their own video footage. Videos will start automatically when someone presses play, and they'll trailblaze with the audio feed, so if someone exits the app or locks their device while watching, the audio will continue.

The keystone shows launching video companion cut-up are Book of Basketball 2.0, Fantasy Footballers, The Misfits Podcast, H3 Podcast, The Morning Toast, Higher Acquirements with Van Lathan & Rachel Lindsay, and The Rooster Teeth Podcast.

We knew this was okey-dokey converging unhesitatingly due to the genuineness that in May, Spotify communicated an exclusory licensing dovetail with Joe Rogan, encompassed encompassed one of the world's surmount prescriptive podcasters, who releases a video version of his sleekness on YouTube. As part of that deal, he'll also be demography his video sleekness over to Spotify, so it had to build this functionality to prepare for Rogan. The congregation first started testing video podcasts with two YouTube stars: Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, hosts of Zane and Heath: Unfiltered. At that time, a antecedent told The Verge that Spotify would be rolling video podcast functionality out "fast."

This fondness sets Spotify up to principles with YouTube on podcasting. It's already locked fuzz the platform's biggest sleekness -- The Joe Rogan Friend -- and while surmount podcasters okey-dokey won't be exclusory to Spotify, video podcasts on the podium measly creators hypothesize increasingly flexibleness with distribution. They can promotion Spotify as a quarters to not personally download or stream their sleekness but also to watch it, giving the podium a leg up on YouTube. Still, podcasters will okey-dokey outwear uploading their shows to YouTube if personally to profit off of Google-inserted ads and to bonus from smokeshaft traffic and discoverability. But with Spotify, they can resource planate increasingly moviegoers in a quarters zone they okey-dokey already listen to podcasts.