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Back to news homeSpotify introduces new podcaster tools, including customized pages, analytics, and other controls
Following Apple’s announcement of podcast creator tools for subscriptions on Monday, Spotify today also introduced its own latest developments in terms of features aimed at podcasters. Included among the changes […]
Nailing subscriptions in India
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Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with with A/B testing
Spotify is introducing a new commercial product for software development teams called “Confidence,” which is based on its homegrown experimentation platform. Confidence is designed to make it easy for teams […]
Tech Firms Once Powered New York’s Economy. Now They’re Scaling Back.
For much of the last two decades, including during the pandemic, technology companies were a bright spot in New York’s economy, adding thousands of high-paying jobs and expanding into millions […]
Spotify may use AI to make host-read podcast ads that sound like real people
With Spotify’s AI DJ, the company trained an AI on a real person’s voice — that of its head of Cultural Partnerships and podcast host, Xavier “X” Jernigan. Now, the […]
What you should know about internal developer portals
For platform engineering teams, the big question is: build or buy? Anna Heim 16 hours Helping developers do more in less time has become a priority for organizations. As the […]
Spotify-owned Findaway Voices eliminates distribution fee for audiobooks on the streaming service
Spotify and Findaway announced today that Findaway Voices, an audiobook distributor for independent authors, is eliminating its 20% distribution fee for audiobooks purchased on Spotify. The streaming service acquired digital […]
Comedian Hasan Minhaj returns as The Riddler in new Spotify podcast series
Among the wave of Spotify announcements coming out of today’s Spotify Stream On event, the company shared some exciting news with podcast listeners — in particular, Batman fans. Spotify is […]
Spotify kills its heart button to be replaced with a “plus” sign
Spotify announced today that it is consolidating the heart and the “Add to playlist” icons into a single plus button, allowing users to save all songs, albums, playlists, audiobooks, podcasts […]