Podz
This company is no longer trading under this name
Owned by: Spotify
Latest news
- Jul 29, 2021: Spotify's podcast ad revenue has jumped 627% year-on-year, according to their revenue announcement today: Joe Rogan and Megaphone helping the increase. We learnt that Podz cost the company $53.4m; and Greenroom $67.7m. The company appears to have stopped reporting the number of monthly users who listen to podcasts. They have 365m monthly users; last we heard, 25% of them (91m) listen to podcasts.
- Jun 18, 2021: Spotify has bought Podz, a podcast discovery platform launched in February. Podz generates clips that lets users preview key moments from podcast episodes; its website and app have already disappeared.
- Mar 8, 2021: New podcast app Podz gets a review in DigitalTrends. The app automatically generates 60-second clips of podcasts to help with discoverability.
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