Spotify has all of their resources focused on podcasts, because that's where they'll be able to become a real aggregator and start making Real Money.

It's a damn shame because the open nature of podcasts is one of the most appealing things about them. I get where they're coming from though.

If they weren't spending ungodly amounts of cash on podcasts (cough joe rogan) they could probably buy pandora (just guessing, not looking at any actual numbers) and replace their recommendation engine with theirs.