Ashley Carman

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238 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 14 Aug

Ashley Carman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rundown · Is Spotify in Trouble? New CEOs Face Double Threat from YouTube and Netflix · 18 Jan 2026 podcast

Now, that said, Spotify did sign a deal with Netflix.

Bill Simmons and some other ringers shows are on Netflix now.

So the video is exclusively to Netflix.

Audio lives everywhere.

I don't know.

I mean, it's really tricky because they spent over a billion dollars on podcasting.

So you could argue, what did they really get for that investment, especially given that YouTube is the number one podcasting platform in the U.S.

right now?

But at the same time, here they are.

They still have video creators and podcast creators putting more shows on the service.

People seem generally happy with Spotify as far as payouts go.

They have this deal with Netflix and a show like Amy Poehler's, which launched this past year, just won the Golden Globe for the first time for the best podcast category.

So it's a kind of a mixed bag on how the results have been for their podcast investment.

Yes, as far as starting the new year.

So I'll start with my – you know, I have to be honest.

Daniel was really in kind of a retrospective mood prior to this announcement.

He was talking a lot even on earnings calls, I believe it was, where he would say, oh, we're almost at 20 years.

And he did a podcast interview where he really reflected on his career.

So the kind of signs were there.

So you weren't shocked?

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