Spotify’s podcast future isn’t very authentic


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When Spotify introduced yesterday that it will lay off 200 staff from its podcast unit and mix Gimlet and Parcast right into a single operation, it got here as a shock to exterior observers. However former and present podcast staff at Spotify have seen the writing on the wall for a while.

“We undoubtedly have anticipated for a number of months now that they’d be axing individuals because the vibe at Gimlet had been very a lot one among strolling on eggshells for months now,” one former Gimlet worker who was part of yesterday’s layoffs informed Scorching Pod. “Zero pleasure. [The layoffs] had been extra only a matter of when. The truth that it was yesterday, that was the…

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