has died in hospital at the age of seventy nine. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello, and welcome to this week s edition of the media show. now in a minute, we re going to talk about spotify. it s the world s most popular music streaming platform. it spent close to $1 billion on podcasting, too, but there are all sorts of different developments coming out of spotify at the moment. and its ceo has said that perhaps they got carried away with new investments. we ll try and unpack what s going on and work out what that means for making money off music streaming and off podcasts, too. first of all, though, we re going to talk about the fallout from a new bbc documentary about india s prime minister, narendra modi. it s on iplayer at the moment, and it explores tensions between mr modi and india s muslim minority. it also specifically looks at claims around his role in the 2002 gujarat riots, in whi
podcasts, it s advertising. then we have the head of spotify, daniel ek, saying, in hindsight, i probably got a bit carried away and overinvested relative to the uncertainty we saw shaping up in the market. and then also this week, we have louis theroux announcing a new podcast with spotify. so it s all going on and you could well be asking, what is going on? let s try and find out. nick hilton s a podcast industry analyst. he runs the production company poddo. nick, great to have you with us on the media show. help me out here. i m trying to piece together what what s coming out of spotify. it s requiring a bit of tea leaf reading. we re not exactly sure. and obviously, no billion multi billion dollar company tells people exactly what s going on in its business strategy. but the sense is that spotify has invested so heavily in podcasting. big bet, as you say, $1 billion bet. there have been some successes. i thinkjoe rogan s move to spotify has been a tangible success in terms of givi