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Spotify exclusive "podcasts" aren't really podcasts any longer. They're Spotify Exclusive Content calling themselves something that's no longer valid. The same is true of any platform exclusive content.

The world's most popular podcast used to be The Joe Rogan Experience, but since Spotify acquired exclusive rights to it, it is no longer distributed as a podcast, and is only available as a Spotify channel. Despite continuing to call it a "podcast", it isn't actually a podcast anymore.

UPDATE: Just found out that earlier this year, Spotify abandoned its exclusive content strategy, and Joe Rogan is once again distributed as a podcast:

https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLT1412515089

Looks like Megaphone is a real, honest-to-goodness podcast hosting service that's owned and operated by Spotify, with proper RSS feeds and everything.

https://openrss.org/open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2Irywz...

OpenRSS is a service that creates RSS feeds using web scraping. Unfortunately, it can't create enclosure links for audio content that's sitting behind Spotify's paywall, so this isn't a podcast feed.

JRE simply isn't a podcast anymore. It's just a Spotify channel.