Spotify just rolled out a major new podcast feature, but it’s already stirring debate — here’s what it does and why some ...

Spotify this week laid off 15 employees in its podcast division, spanning The Ringer and Spotify Studios, Variety has ...

In a blog post, the company acknowledges that finding the latest episodes of podcasts you follow “has proved to be challenging,” so the new Following feed brings “gives you a dedicated place to catch ...

A year ago, Spotify made an expensive bet, shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to get into the podcast business. For a company that was still unprofitable, losing more than $200 million ...

That came a week after Spotify’s June 8, 2022, investor day presentation on its plans to improve its margins. The key would be podcasts, executives said, along with a new foray into audiobooks.

In an internal memo, Sahar Elhabashi, Spotify’s head of the podcast division, announced that the company was making changes that would lead to a workforce reduction of 2%. This change will ...

Could Spotify becoming a podcast publisher change podcasts themselves? Traditionally, licensing music for podcasts has been exceedingly complex. Could Spotify’s industry connections change that?

“This marks the biggest change Spotify has undergone since we introduced ... has announced that they will now be adding autoplay for podcasts, which means that another episode will start playing ...

Spotify said it’s acquiring two more podcast tech platforms, Chartable and Podsight, and is also among those considering bids on another podcasting platform, Audioboom.

and podcast subscriptions can now measure the performance of these campaigns. Spotify didn’t give a specific timeline for when all of the changes will arrive. The company is still slowly rolling ...

Days after rumors broke out about looming layoffs at Spotify’s podcast division, there’s been official confirmation that the streaming audio giant is letting around 2% of the company’s ...