Neal Veglio

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2,822 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

Neal Veglio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators · Podcasters, should we all boycott Spotify? · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

And this episode was gonna be all about the good news around that idea. matched

But now it can't be. matched

The theory of podcasting is that RSS makes you free, there's no contract with Spotify, no exclusivity deals, no notice period, you never signed anything, apart from accepting the terms and conditions of being published on their platform, which is a button click away. matched

There we are with the buttons again. matched

All of that is true. matched

But what it doesn't give you is an exit. matched

If your show is externally hosted, the procedure for your exit is this: contact support, send your feed and link, and then wait, with no published time frame in mind. matched

If you're Spotify hosted, you can't remove the show at all without deleting your whole account. matched

Their own suggested workaround involves publishing a placeholder episode and then just deleting the rest of matched

Your back catalogue around it, which is not a workaround, that's a hostage situation with a help article and terms and conditions. matched

So let's get the shape of this completely straight. matched

Spotify have built a one-tap button so your listener can skip past the bits where you ask for financial support, and a support ticket queue for you to leave when they do that. matched

One tap to skip you, and an email and an unspecified wait time to go. matched

It's funny where they chose to remove the friction. matched

Isn't it? matched

Right now, friction is the only reason that ad reads survive at all. matched

The only thing making people listen to ad reads is the pain point of them having to bother clicking to skip them. matched

And if they're doing something else like I don't know, washing up or driving, that's an even harder task. matched

So this button removes that friction entirely. matched

And from what little has been said about this, it sounds matched

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