Spotify has announced layoffs impacting 17 percent of its employees, its third layoff of 2023. The Company is desperately chasing profitability, with CEO Daniel Ek explaining, “As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core principle of resourcefulness.”
Spotify has unveiled a new feature, powered by ChatGPT developer OpenAI, that clones podcasters’ voices using AI. The company claims the technology will be used for translation purposes, allowing the voices of podcasters to present their shows in languages they don’t speak.
Spotify is reportedly developing AI tools capable of creating targeted ads using its podcast hosts’ voices, as revealed by Bill Simmons, the founder of The Ringer, a Spotify-owned podcast network.
More than 1.1 million people tuned into the live broadcast of the Brazilian podcast Flow on Tuesday to listen to far-left socialist presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took time to, among other things, describe conservative President Jair Bolsonaro as a “pedophile” and accuse soccer star Neymar of cutting a deal with Bolsonaro to avoid prison.
Podcasters are using a new type of ad, embedded in mobile video games, to run up their total listener counts — but analysts are asking questions about whether or not the tactic is deceptive.
Meghan Markle’s podcasting debut has seen her show shoot to the top of the Spotify rankings, unseating Joe Rogan from first place.
Meghan Markle kicked off her new Spotify podcast series “Archetypes” on Tuesday with a feminist rant, complaining that ambition has become a “terrible, terrible” thing for women.
A recent report from Bloomberg reveals that some podcast guests are paying as much as $50,000 to appear on popular podcasts.
Mark Zuckerberg has suffered a humiliating defeat as social media giant Facebook is shutting down its podcast platform less than a year after it launched.
By any measure, Peter Schweizer is an investigative reporting powerhouse. His output speaks for itself, with nearly 20 books to his name, including the bestsellers Clinton Cash and last year’s Profiles in Corruption. He has written for the New York Times and Breitbart News, where he is senior contributor. And in his day job, he and his team have published numerous investigations at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), where he serves as president.
Hollywood star Alec Baldwin is launching a mental health and self-improvement podcast with his wife, Hilaria, just months after she was embroiled in a controversy over her claims to having Spanish heritage.
The Associated Press is targeting tech companies that host decentralized podcast marketplaces, including Apple and Google, alleging that they host “extremist” content — and the AP includes President Trump’s statements under that umbrella term.
Tech giant Apple has reportedly removed the popular podcast app Pocket Casts from its app store in China at the request of the Chinese communist government.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has led the defense of President Donald Trump during the impeachment trial by launching a viral podcast.
Podcasts may not help 2020 Democrat candidates, but Williamson and Yang have appeared the most on the popular platform.
Spotify has pulled multiple episodes of InfoWars host Alex Jones’s podcast for violating their rules on “hate speech,” the company has revealed.
Dr. Will provides vivid examples of why the NHS does not deserve its reputation as the “envy of the world” and why socialized medicine is not the answer to our more complicated health requirements.
