> Recently, Spotify announced a new advertising service, Spotify Podcast Ads with what’s called ‘streaming ad insertion.’

Oh good, the Adsense-ification of podcast ads is now upon us. Why bother having the talent read out the ads and maybe inject some improvisation and humour into it, when we can just have the real-time-bidding system decide what commercial you should see, based on whatever Spotify has stitched together using all its data points.