Spotify Partners With the Calm App to Share Stress Relief
The music- and podcast-streaming platform is now sharing meditations, breathwork, mindful movement, and sleep stories from Calm.
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The music- and podcast-streaming platform is now sharing meditations, breathwork, mindful movement, and sleep stories from Calm.
Spotify is cutting 200 jobs, about 2% of its workforce, in a revamp of its podcast business.
Spotify claims to be the most-used audio podcast platform worldwide with 100 million podcast listeners.
A memo from SPOTIFY VP/Head of Podcast Business SAHAR ELHABASHI to the company's staff outlines another cut of a significant number of jobs from SPOTIFY's podcast division, around 200 employees let go, or 2% of the company's overall workforce. SPOTIFY is also merging its PARCAST, GIMLET, and SPOTIFY STUDIOS divisions, with THE RINGER remaining separate under BILL SIMMONS, who also continues as Head of Podcast Innovation and Monetization. VP/Head of Global Podcast Studios JULIE MCNAMARA will ...
Spotify is undertaking a "strategic realignment" of its podcast division, laying off about 200 staffers.