Amazon Music
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Latest news
- Mar 17: The host of Under the Influence, Terry O’Reilly, has a face ten stories high - or, at least, did last week in Times Square, New York City, as part of a campaign by Amazon Music. Here’s what it looked like in video form. In other news - free chocolate!
- Jan 27: Further reading: The FT highlight “The podcast bros who helped put Trump back in the White House” ... EarBuds focuses on podcast episode recommendations about neurodiversity, exploring everything ADHD, autism, and more ... Amazon Music held India Pod Day in Mumbai last week. ... The Relay FM podcast network is now simply Relay, with a new logo and revised artwork.
- Dec 3, 2024: Acast has opened its London studios, in the heart of London’s Old Street. The space includes an Amazon Music branded studio, free to emerging and brand-new creators; and has four multimedia studios. Acast podcasters can use the studios for free from early next year.
- Nov 19, 2024: First look: In a move that could be targeted at Spotify, Amazon Music is adding the entire Audible audiobook catalog to its app. Unlimited subscribers in the US, UK and Canada can now listen to one Audible title for free each month (of any length), alongside more than 100 million songs in HD Audio, and a range of ad-free podcasts. Audible is the best-known brand for audiobooks (and lays claim to be an early podcast company, too): this offer also includes the company’s original productions. We’ve analysis, below.
- Aug 7, 2024: Amazon Music has launched a new AI-powered feature for podcast discovery. Topics, available in the US only, are based on automatically extracting things spoken about in podcasts from transcripts, “alongside human review”. It appears to only work across top podcasts for now.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter