Spotify layoffs, it's just business? Todd Cochrane 1,628 not out! Podcast.ai brings back Steve Jobs? Phase 6 of Podcast Index announced!

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Todd Cochrane


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Spotify is cancelling eleven of its original shows. Those
cancelled represent less than 2% of Spotify’s more than 500
original podcasts; but it’s likely to result in “less than 5% of
Spotify’s staff on original podcasts” being laid off.


The Gimlet Union and Parcast Union have tweeted a statement
about the 38 layoffs across Spotify. They say that some shows
lost as much as three-quarters of their audience when going
exclusive; and that employees were given as little as an hour to
close out their work and leave. 



Steven Goldstein suggests that the podcast business is
being “right-sized”

Spotify has acquired platform safety company Kinzen. 

Spotify’s Podsights ad measurement service has launched in
the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

Podcast·ai has made a show where Joe Rogan interviews Steve
Jobs.



Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central Podcast turns 18 years
old this week. The first episode of the show was recorded on
Oct 9 2004. It was one of the first shows to launch using the
word “podcast”, and is up to episode 1,628.


Phase 6 of the new podcast namespace proposes a number of new
tags.

podcast:events allows for real-time communication back to
the podcaster

podcast:txt is for freefor





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