Neal Veglio

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2,915 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

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

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 6.

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There's a check involved, there's a relationship, however grubby that is.

Spotify pays you precisely nothing for the privilege of carrying your RSS feed, and they're now editing it.

James made that point in his analysis.

Analysis of what Spotify are doing.

In some markets, there are over three quarters of all podcast downloads.

So just leave Spotify then isn't the answer either.

And I've got a whole episode on why that particular fantasy has never once worked, coming out on Monday.

And to be honest, I only did the research on this because I considered that myself.

Do we get together as an industry and boycott Spotify?

There are reasons why that's probably not a good idea.

Again, big reveal on Monday.

Right, so that's the easy bit done.

Being cross about a big company is the LinkedIn influencer special there, and it costs me nothing really.

I've got no stake in that.

Here's the harder bit, and this is where I stop being on your side.

Because Spotify's actual defense, their real one, not the delivery to the device excuse nonsense.

It's that the

The button only appears where listeners were already skipping, so it's just surfacing existing behavior.

Now James, it sounds like isn't sold on that, and neither am I, particularly.

It's a very convenient thing to be able to say, but I'd be a coward if I didn't at least try it on my own show before slagging it off.

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