Tag: podcasts

Spotify began testing video podcasts on its service earlier this year, but now it is opening up the feature to more podcasters using its Anchor app.

The company has raised $12m of Series B funding from investors including SiriusXM, Reservoir, The Weeknd and music manager Larry Rudolph.

The company has made it clear that it wants to put some welly behind its advertising business to make that a bigger proportion of its revenues.

We wrote about startup Fireside in February when it was first announced, describing it as "a cross between podcasts and Clubhouse".

Across the music industry, companies are thinking about how they can reduce their impact on the environment, and thus contribute to tackling the climate emergency.

Spotify likes to see itself as the on-demand audio platform that will kill off 'linear radio', but even its audio is still linear in the sense that you choose a track, playlist or podcast and listen to it. However, the...

People (including us) have often underestimated YouTube as a podcasting platform, but it can be a powerful service for building an audience for long-form shows.

Spotify has been testing its new podcast subscriptions in the US since earlier in the year with more than 100 shows. Now it’s happy enough with the system to roll it out to all podcasters in that country. Well, all the...

Business Insider has published an investigative piece about Spotify's podcasts studio Gimlet, riffing off figures indicating a "late-summer slump" in 2020.

When Spotify bought podcast production studios in the past, it often left their shows on other podcasting platforms rather than making them exclusive to its service.

Initially available in a handful of countries, now the model is rolling out to 15 more, including Japan, France and Brazil.

Spotify has published its financial results for the second quarter of 2021. The streaming service now has 365 million monthly active users.