Spotify may owe millions from missing licenses and may have gained millions from missing podcasts?

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Jeff Price CEO - Word Collections

Spotify has pulled a number of comedy albums from its service,
after claims they weren’t licensed correctly.  Jeff Price
has announced a $3.5m investment round for his Word Collections
company, which “focuses on getting comedians and other
spoken-word performers paid for the use of their works for the
first time”.



NEWS:


The Infinite Dial 2021 for the UK was released last week. The
headline was 41% of the UK population (16+) listens to
podcasts every month - around 23m people. The data is
directly comparable to the US (41%), Canada (38%) and Australia
(36%). The data was paid-for by Bauer Media and
Spotify. 


Links: Adam Bowie looks at the data.

We interview Larry Rosin President at Edison Research next
week.



Exclusive: Spotify has made a number of exciting press
releases about new podcast partnerships in the past two years:
but many of those Spotify announcements have yet to result in a
single new podcast, according to our research. Where are they?
And what’s going on?


A Sky News investigation in the UK has discovered
antisemitism, racism and white supremacist material in podcasts
on Spotify.  Spotify has removed 150 hours of content after
the news channel’s report. “In some cases, explicit slurs could
be found in episode titles and descriptions while album artwork
displayed imagery adopted by white supremacists,” the story says.
The podcasts are still available on Google Podcasts.


Alex Paterson has listened to more than 350 hours of The Joe
Rogan Experience.  He says he: “compiled some of the worst
examples of Rogan’s sexist, racist, and harmful commentary over
the past year -- all paid for by Spotify”.




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