Sony Music has made a series of appointments to its podcasting business.
Labels are increasingly investing in podcasts as streaming services such as Spotify look to diversify audio content.
The big revelation from Spotify’s Q3 earnings report was the exit of CFO Barry McCarthy, who will retire in January after almost five years.
Fortunately, McCarthy was then on hand ...
Spotify’s Safiya Lambie-Knight has told Music Week that the Who We Be Talks podcast makes “complete sense” for record labels as a promotional tool.
Lambie-Knight is lead, urban in ...
Music Week cover star DJ Semtex has said that Spotify’s Who We Be Talks podcast offers a platform for artists that doesn’t exist elsewhere in the music industry.
Semtex, ...
At times lately, it’s felt like more people are producing podcasts than actually listening to the bloody things.
But, as streaming companies target spoken word as their next big (and, ...
Spotify has announced details of a long-overdue redesign of the library section of its app, that will give podcasts greater prominence.
Available to premium users, the new look library menu ...
While the post-IPO focus of Spotify’s earnings has been on user growth, the streaming giant has just revealed an even more eye-catching result – its first ever quarterly profit.
Spotify ...
Spotify has acquired podcast producer Gimlet Media and Anchor, which specialises in monetisation of podcasting.
The streaming platform said it is now positioned to become both the premier producer of ...
Max Lousada's Warner Music Group posted strong fiscal Q1 figures including its first $1 billion quarter for recorded music and even an increase in physical revenue.
But perhaps the most ...
Spotify has appointed Rowan Collinson as content programming manager, Music Week has learned.
He worked at BBC Radio 6 and Radio 2 as a senior content producer and oversaw social ...
