This week' s opinion chapter. I' m going to move it forward
to Thursday, because tomorrow, as the last day of May, I have
a review of the agenda you may have, but good thing I didn'
t mess with it. Let' s go with this last episode of the
week' s opinion. We welcome you across the microphone. On the other
side of the microphone, a project by Jorge Marín grandson in which you will
find your daily ration of metapodcasting, casting with news, events, tools or
episodes of opinion in just ten minutes. Ten minutes, ten minutes, very
good. My name is Jorge Marín and I want to welcome you to IT
that you are listening to this on the other side of the microphone to accompany
me in a new episode of around ten fifteen minutes reflecting on some new aspect
of podcasting that surrounds me. I usually do these episodes of opinion the last
days of the week on Fridays, but as tomorrow I have a review of
the entire agenda within next month. Today I want to bring it forward to
Thursday. You will see lately I reflect on the amount of games automatically generated
on our podcasts due to the platforms and I have noticed this for a reason.
You' ll see and about eight or nine months ago, I changed
my mobile device. For the first time in my life. I bought an
iPhone and the headphones they normally use. The bluetooth headphones they use normally,
well, they have their own play button and if I' m not listening
to a podcast. Recently they automatically start playing a song through Apple Music.
Apple Music, I have never signed up in fact, every time I stop
this song that now, I will tell you what is or what are better
said takes me to the typical welcome message of the platform as to hear.
We' re seeing that you' re using music and we want to welcome
you and these are our benefits and here you' re going to find hundreds
of billion songs and all very nice and we have everyone. And good.
Anyway, I don' t want to talk about Apple musi Coin, but
every time I press the play of my headphones having a podcast, let'
s say far away in time. If maybe I' m on the headphones
but I haven' t heard anything for half an hour, or an hour
or whatever, for a while, I' ll give it back to the
play and we' ll automatically play something on Apple Music, but I never
use per Music. I don' t listen to music. If I listen
to any music, I use Spotify or YouTube, but I' ve never
heard Applemish. Well, the point is that automatically, automatedly. I don
' t know who told Upple Music this. And this is where the reflection
of this episode comes from that I like you. For whatever it is,
I don' t or yuhue. If you' re English- speaking,
I' m sorry, but here in Spain you say U two. I
' d swear we' d lay hands on the fire, because I'
ve never looked for U two or YouTube, or Apple Podcasts, or Spotify
or anywhere, because it' s not a group of my devotion. I
recognize that they make good music. I like some of his songs, but
I' m not one of his followers, I' m not a listener.
I' ve never played them on purpose. However, in an automated
way in Apple Music you get these tunes, these songs and I have never
looked for them. I mean someone has decided that U two or YUHU will
take places for free or automatically take places from me and I have never set
this up. I don' t know why I' d like to know
your opinion. If any of you have iPhone, if any of you have
happened the same and why the hell do I get U two or YouTube music
automatically without me deciding? If I ask myself. No one' s ever
told me. Nothing gets on, but come on. I don' t
know about playce that they' ll take over every month. They' ve
already reproduced for me. I don' t know maybe six or seven different
songs, because of course, with so many plays, because there' s
a day I listen to five seconds, there' s another day I listen
to ten seconds, another day thirty seconds and little by little I' ve
been passing automatically song by song by or two or YouTube, but I'
ve never decided to ever give them a play, and this has led me
to reflect. The same is not true of some podcast platforms. Sounds like
some podcast platform that automatically triggers some of those original podcasts or most famous podcasts.
You don' t think they' re taking free play or reproductions when
people don' t even look for those podcasts. I, for example,
say I didn' t listen on purpose, because I' ve never looked
for one of the songs in this band that I don' t want to
repeat again. I' m not your follower. However, they have taken
or I don' t know ten twenty fifty plays a hundred plays in the
last few months automatically without me looking for it. And this is not the
case with podcast platforms. Even having finished an episode. The podcast platforms don
' t propose you and here you' re not seeing me, but I
' m making a wink. Cod, elbow, quotes, quotes, they
don' t propose you, they don' t provoke you. Rather the
word would be to provoke more than to propose that you give the play or
that you add a playback that you add a download to a podcast than not
the one that you are not listening to to see if you like to increase
their statistics as a veiled suggestion, to what extent automations will be made to
cause some of these podcasts to go up on some lists. This is a
reflection that some of us know the answers, because we know a little how
some platforms move and how they cause one podcast to go to another or that
automatically a podcast brings another guest so that you go to listen to their episode
or go to listen to their content because you have really liked their expected appearance
in another project and gradually they are self nourishing recommendations so that they always appear
in the recommendations or in their tops, their own creations, or even their
own creations? Not people who are saying they' re pushing their podcasts based
on putting tickets into their projects. It' s cool to do podcast promotion
and it' s great to sponsor other podcasts here. In fact, I
' ve had some sponsors in the last few weeks, but in that way
it seems much more legal, much more honest. Hey, look, I
want to advertise on this site and I know that that has a price,
but cause algorithms to add up to me download, put me ahead of others
automatically hang me over and over again and over again. As I was saying,
I' m not a follower of u two or YouTube on any platform,
because I' ve never been given to look for their songs. However,
without wanting to, I have given them fifty or a hundred plays,
because yes on how many devices in the world they may be doing the same.
How many iPhones there are in the world that have automatically on Apple Music,
put on YouTube or two, and that makes them upload their reproductions,
their statistics and even take good benefits from this. Now let' s go
to Spotify, go to Evox or Apple Podcast. Let' s multiply it
by the number of podcast listeners. What podcasts are benefiting from these types of
strategies. There I leave this week' s reflection so that we all think
about what algorithms do with our devices. Inadvertently, and now I' m
leaving suspiciously, yes, and I' m going back to that place where
you are right now, across the microphone,