Spotify podcasts have come to Amazon Echo devices, which means listeners can enjoy their favorite podcasters—or Spotify, at least—through any Alexa-enabled speaker. Once you've linked your Spotify account in the Alexa app, which you may have already done, if you're a regular user of a music streaming service, it's as easy as asking Alexa to read a particular podcast. . If not, you can go to Settings > Music & podcasts in the Alexa app. You can even "pause the episode you're listening to on one Echo device and pick up where you left off on one of your other Echo devices, or on Spotify (web, mobile, desktop), by asking Alexa to resume the podcast by name." You know, like when you listen to music. Podcasts have been a huge investment for Spotify, with the Swedish streaming company spending €200 million in 2019 to buy two podcasting companies, Gimlet Media and Anchor, to secure its place as the future of podcasts Spotify still has a bad reputation for underpaid artists, of course, which can make big spending hard to swallow Podcasts will no doubt be a big part of the company's strategy in the The so-called ``podcast boom'' can be a bit misleading, given that the medium has had a fairly large ecosystem for many years, but it seems that big companies with bigger budgets are starting to get there. Pay more attention.