Spotify launched on Tuesday a paid subscription platform for podcasters within the United States and plans to increase in different areas within the coming months, per week after Apple unveiled an identical service.
A podcaster may mark episodes as subscriber-only and publish them on Spotify and different podcast listening platforms, the corporate stated in an announcement.
Spotify, the world’s hottest paid music streaming service, stated it will not take a fee from podcast creators` subscriber income for the following two years and deliberate to cost a 5% payment beginning in 2023.
Online shops reminiscent of Apple’s app retailer normally cost builders a payment for purchases made on their platforms.
Spotify filed a criticism two years in the past with European Union regulators saying that the charges Apple fees for taking funds by means of the shop had made it unfairly tough for rivals to compete for music subscribers.
Apple competes with Spotify for music streaming and earlier this month unveiled podcasts a subscription platform that can price $19.99 per thirty days and can present creators the instruments they want to provide podcast subscriptions.
Spotify has chosen 12 unbiased podcasters to publish subscriber-only bonus content material of their current podcast feeds, and the corporate will even increase the programme to extra creators over the approaching months.Â
National Public Radio (NPR) will publish 5 ad-free reveals for paid subscribers from May 4, together with “How I Built This with Guy Raz” and “Planet Money”.
Spotify has been boosting its podcast muscle by spending greater than half a billion {dollars} in shopping for podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor, and podcast advert firm Megaphone.
The new subscription device is constructed utilizing Anchor`s platform.
The Swedish firm can also be testing a system the place content material publishers on different platforms with current subscriber bases can ship paid content material utilizing Spotify.Â
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