In the second quarter of 2023, Spotify will also say goodbye to “Horoscope Today.”
Over the next couple of months, podcasts leaving the platform include Gimlet’s “How to Save a Planet,” “Crime Show,” “Every Little Thing,” as well as Parcast’s “Medical Murders,” “Female Criminals,” “Crimes of Passion,” “Dictator,” “Mythology,” “Haunted Places” and “Urban Legends.” Reached for comment, Spotify said it does not comment publicly on staffing changes. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Spotify cannot legitimately claim to be helpful to artists if they continue to fight songwriters in court.Spotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs from Spotify’s podcast staff, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch.
Spotify along with other streaming giants have invested millions of dollars into this legal battle to deny songwriters their due. Their own director of economics, Will Page, has stated that switching the platform to a user-centric model would be too difficult to implement because of “significant financial costs to adopting and implementing user-centric distribution.” Spotify should be fighting for the artists who built it, instead of further undercutting our economic well-being.Īnd earlier in 2020, Spotify along with several other streaming giants took to the DC circuit courts to appeal the 44% increase in mechanical songwriter royalty payments set in 2018 by the Copyright Royalty Board. They ask artists to generate more and more content, saying “ You can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” Spotify positions itself as the ultimate tool for artists to connect with and acquire new fans – but those aspirations frequently come in conflict with their bottom line and their business model.
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