Spotify continues pushing them in my face, despite having only listened to 1 episode of 1 podcasts in my years as a paying customer. I'm not interested, I never was, and I don't want to see them anymore. I'm unsurprised they've never had a hit podcast.
It's a pretty minor nuisance, but I don't know why executives would be so surprised that people aren't listening to content they don't want. Isn't the whole job of their platform to give users content that they *do* want? Why do they keep blindly shoving podcasts in front of me as if the problem is I just haven't seen enough ads for them yet?