It’s about to get easier to share your favorite moments from a podcast, with the import of Spotify’s new Podcast clip feature, launching on Wednesday.
In the app, a new scissor icon in the Now Playing view will let you cut out a specific segment of interest from a podcast you’re listening to, and then share it more widely with your social media audience, friends, colleagues, or anyone else.
When clipping, you’ll be able to trim the audio portion and preview it to listen again before sharing it more publicly. You’ll then hit the share button, which offers options for the different ways you can share a podcast, including a link to the full episode, chapter, timestamp or, now, the clip.
For those in the tech industry, the addition is particularly timely, given that big tech and AI executives now often eschew traditional media interviews to sit down with podcasters to expand their reach and, in some cases, avoid tougher questions. This means there is now a lot more news on podcasts and not enough time to cover it all. This will make it easier for key pieces from these otherwise lengthy interviews to find an audience.
Spotify also notes that it has seen traction with people saving longer podcast segments called Chapters since it launched earlier this year. Since then, Chapters has been saved and added to playlists over 2 million times a month.
Clip sharing can also help with marketing by highlighting particularly interesting tracks, encouraging users to tune in to the full show to hear more.
Saved clips are stored in your Spotify library, allowing you to revisit them at any time or add them to one of your podcast playlists.
The feature is available globally to free and Premium users of Spotify on mobile, with availability expanding to more shows over time.
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