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I probably will never watch it now since I don’t have a Spotify subscription and don’t need one. Is Spotify free for Podcasts?

He said in the announcement his podcast is remaining free. I don't know if you have to register with Spotify to listen, but I would think you would.

That’s the whole point, killing open podcast distribution. They want the only viable place to get podcasts to be the Spotify app which they control.

From memory, you don't need an account to use spotify. You don't even need to download an app.

Spotify has an ad-supported free tier. This will be available on that, along with all their other podcasts.