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News podcasts are booming worldwide. Discover key trends, top platforms, and why more listeners are tuning in (and paying) ...

Over the past few weeks, several new additions have been made to Spotify's ecosystem, now available for US users following ...

Spotify, the audio streaming platform, said on Monday that it planned to lay off about 200 people, including workers at the popular podcast studios Gimlet Media and Parcast. The 2 percent cut to ...

In terms of catalog, Apple Podcasts and Spotify offer a good variety of options to choose from. Both services offer shows across genres spanning news, entertainment, crime, comedy, and more.

Spotify’s biggest updates are around promotion. Right now, podcasters just get a short bio and a list of episodes on their show page. But after this update, creators will be able to link to ...

Spotify said it reaches 286 million monthly active users, which translates to about 54.3 million podcast listeners. Apple has long been the dominant player in podcast consumption, but Spotify is ...

However, the podcast business in 2021 had a negative gross margin of -57%, according to Vogel — and he said the losses will be even higher this year, peaking in 2022. That said, Spotify ...

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.

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.

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 ...