In 2025 Spotify represents for many listeners the defacto listening platform. But it also represent 700m investment in weapons manufactures, exploitative artist fees, a rapidly growing environmental impact as the platform centres video and playlists that morph into AI generated music, and likely, soon podcasts too. This is a long table format discussion (inspired by the artist Lois Weaver) that asks if audio producers working in podcasting need to radically change their relationship with silicon valley if we are to survive.

Like increasing numbers of listeners, do we need to boycott Spotify if we are to survive?

Lina Prestwood is an audio producer based in London where she co-runs Scenery Studios, a production company that seeks to bring out the best in humanity, one listen at a time.

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