Just hours after Spotify announced its first-ever annual net profit, the National Music Publishers’ Association has launched an ongoing takedown initiative against the streaming giant for the unlicensed use of music in podcasts on its platform.

Video podcasts blew up in 2024, making up a bigger share of Spotify’s top podcasts this year compared with 2023, according to data provided to Forbes by Spotify, while YouTube has also grown to become one of the dominant listening services for podcast ...

Listen up! Netflix is officially diving into the podcast biz: The video-streaming giant inked a deal with Spotify to bring a batch of top original podcasts, including from Bill Simmons' The Ringer, to subscribers worldwide. The companies did not disclose ...

Spotify is refining how podcast episode performance is displayed across its app, following backlash from creators after the platform first introduced a public-facing “Plays” metric, designed to provide more immediate insight into podcast engagement.

After months of speculation, Netflix is taking its first step into the world of video podcasting. The streaming giant announced a partnership with the audio company Spotify on Tuesday that would bring numerous video podcasts on sports, culture ...

Spotify's been making major money in recent years. The music streaming service hit a whopping $16.9 billion in revenue last year, marking an 18 percent increase from the year prior, while 2023 saw a 16 percent increase in revenue from 2022. But Spotify isn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Podcasting continues to boom in 2025 as new shows breakthrough, streamers take an interest and billions listen and watch (Christopher Smith/TheWrap) In 2025, podcasting stopped behaving ...

Hello, hello. Welcome back to Soundbite. Today, we’ll dive into the conversation rankling the podcast industry — in a world where YouTube is seemingly the dominant platform, and Spotify is moving into video, what even is a podcast anymore? And why does ...