podcasting
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Spotify Drops Paywall for Gimlet Shows as It Struggles With Podcasts and Audiobooks
After spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars in building up an in-house suite of paywalled podcasts on its streaming service, Spotify is now re-evaluating that exclusivity and has revealed to employees that Gimlet Media podcasts will start being licensed to other platforms.
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Why Google Is Scrubbing Personal Info From Search Results (if You Ask Nicely)
As our lives become more digital, they’ve also become more searchable. Today, lots of people can find out personal information about you — phone number, physical address — with a simple Google search. This is not always ideal, or, frankly, comfortable. Google knows this, and it’s giving ordinary people the chance to scrub this information…
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Spotify Launches Milquetoast ‘Safety Advisory Council’ to Help Solve Its Content Moderation Fiasco
Spotify’s finally showing some semblance of an interest in crafting a more coherent content moderation policy.
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Spotify CEO Says Man He Gave $139 Million Does Not Represent Values of His Company
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek wrote a memo to employees on Sunday about the controversy surrounding podcaster Joe Rogan, who removed over 100 episodes of his show over the weekend that reportedly contained racial slurs. And frankly the Grammy Awards should consider giving out a trophy for this kind of corporate fence-sitting.