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Spotify laid off dozens of podcast workers at Gimlet and Parcast in October 2022. In January, Spotify announced that it was laying off about 600 employees.
Spotify knows something is wrong with its podcast strategy — and these past few weeks have proved it. The company’s missteps reveal how fundamentally different the formula of success is in ...
Citi analyst Jason Bazinet maintained a Neutral rating heading into the print, cautioning that third quarter guidance may ...
Spotify is rolling out new features for its library of podcasts, bringing you closer to the shows you love This includes a new Following feed in the Home page, which groups all the podcasts you follow ...
Spotify is scrambling to remove fake podcast pages that direct users to buy drugs from potentially dangerous and illegal online pharmacies. CNN identified dozens of these phony podcasts across ...
1. New podcasts Following feed (Image credit: Spotify) The main podcast feature of the three is the new Following feed, a dedicated space for shows you already follow.
Spotify is borrowing a page from rival Apple with the addition of a five-star user ratings system for podcasts — a new tool for sorting through the more than 3.2 million podcast titles on ...
Spotify wants to be the industry’s No. 1 distributor of podcasts — and it’s willing to forgo some revenue in order to counter Apple‘s push into podcast subscriptions.. Next week, Spotify ...
Spotify today is opening access to Podcast Subscriptions to all podcast creators in the U.S., after first launching the service for testing with a smaller number of creators back in April. Through ...
Spotify acquired Megaphone, a podcast advertising platform, for $235 million in November 2020. The company also acquired Anchor in 2019 for $154 million, as well as Whooshkaa in December 2021 and ...
Spotify had hinted at its plans for paid podcast content during its fourth-quarter earnings call earlier this month, when it said it was exploring ideas like paid podcast subscriptions and à la ...
Spotify purchased Gimlet Media and Anchor in a deal worth more than $300 million. The company is now speaking publicly about its big podcast plans.