Enter the Metrics: What Counts As A ‘Play’ These Days?

When is a play, not a play? Or a download not a download? As Spotify updates its analytics, we take a look at how YouTube, Apple and others define what we monetise.

Elsewhere, the BBC outlines where the axe will fall. Broadcast consultant Paul Robinson, a veteran of both the BBC and this podcast, tells us more.

Also on the podcast: who’s training the next generation of content makers? Prince Taylor, Executive Producer of Latent Pictures, on whether high-end TV training is actually in good shape.

All that plus: the Government bans social media for the under-sixteens - is this the moment kids’ platforms have been waiting for? And, in The Audio Network Media Quiz, three more media stories where reality is up for grabs.

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What The Media Club has been reading this week:

BBC to cancel shows and review channels as it cuts content spend

UK social media ban raises digital advertising questions

Spotify redefines a ‘play’

BBC launches 3D World Cup experience

BBC made second Ashley Cain series despite alleged misconduct

Tech platforms overtake news outlets as global news source

Sara Cox sets BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show date

Roger Cook, investigative reporter, dies aged 83