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The company will now require that a track amasses 1,000 streams over 12 months in order to earn royalties. Royalties from tracks that fall below that threshold will be redistributed to bigger artists.

Children’s podcast publisher Tinkercast is struggling to grow its audience on YouTube. Also, more British radio IP is coming to Spotify and Apple.

San Francisco, June 1 (IANS) Due to an outage on podcast hosting platform owned by Spotify, Megaphone, podcast listeners could not access many of their shows

Due to an outage on podcast hosting platform owned by Spotify, Megaphone, podcast listeners could not access many of their shows for more than eight hours this week.According to The Verge, the outage stemmed from the companys failure to renew ...

According to The Verge, the outage stemmed from the company's failure to renew Megaphone's security certificate.

Many top shows were unavailable for eight hours late Monday and early Tuesday because Spotify failed to renew Megaphone’s security certificate.

All shows hosted on Megaphone were unavailable for several hours due to the slip up..

SiriusXM has acquired Team Coco for a reported $150 million. Meanwhile, Acast locks down ad sales for WTF with Marc Maron, and Spotify starts selling political ads again.

Spotify acquired Podsights and Chartable, giving it technology to better measure and track listener behavior. In Hot Pod Insider, Ashley Carman writes about how the deal relates to YouTube.

Companies like Spotify and SiriusXM are spending millions of dollars to acquire podcasting companies. Now they’re trying to scale their ad operations to the detriment of direct response, promo-code-oriented advertisers.