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December 4, 2023: Spotify cancels two acclaimed podcasts, the Heavyweight and Stolen as it withdraws from in-house productions<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-04/spotify-cancels-two-praised-podcasts-heavyweight-stolen?srnd=undefined</ref>. | |||
September 1, 2023: As part of Spotify's crackdown on white-noise podcasts, effective October 1, white noise podcasters will no longer be eligible for Ambassadar Ads Program. Under the program, Spotify pays podcasters to read ads in order to encourage others to make content and join the program. Additionally, Spotify is raising the threshold requirement to join the program from 100 unique listeners in the past 60 days to 1,000. Therefore, going forward, white-noise podcasters can only make money from paid subcribers, listener support and automated ads placed in shows. Last week, Spotify said it plans to invite more podcasters to take part in automated adds. Revenue from these ads will be divided in half between the company and podcasters as opposed to the flat rate based on ad impressions that was originally used<ref>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/spotify-to-limit-white-noise-podcasters-money-making-options-1.1966291</ref>. | September 1, 2023: As part of Spotify's crackdown on white-noise podcasts, effective October 1, white noise podcasters will no longer be eligible for Ambassadar Ads Program. Under the program, Spotify pays podcasters to read ads in order to encourage others to make content and join the program. Additionally, Spotify is raising the threshold requirement to join the program from 100 unique listeners in the past 60 days to 1,000. Therefore, going forward, white-noise podcasters can only make money from paid subcribers, listener support and automated ads placed in shows. Last week, Spotify said it plans to invite more podcasters to take part in automated adds. Revenue from these ads will be divided in half between the company and podcasters as opposed to the flat rate based on ad impressions that was originally used<ref>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/spotify-to-limit-white-noise-podcasters-money-making-options-1.1966291</ref>. | ||