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August 17, 2023: According to Bloomberg, White noise and ambient podcasts accounted for 3 million daily consumption hours on Spotify as of January. These podcasts that doesn't involve any people talking, have been unintentionally boosted by the company's “algorithmic push for ‘talk’ content (versus music)." After Spotify noticed that it was promoting white noise podcasts, it considered pulling them out of its talk feeds, banning future uploads and sending users to other economical contents. Doing so, could increase Spotify's annual gross profit by €35 million($38 million), according to documents seen by Bloomberg. However, the plan never materialized. “The proposal in question did not come to fruition — we continue to have white noise podcasts on our platform,” a Spotify spokesperson responded in an email to Bloomberg. Still, some white noise podcast creators have seen their podcasts go missing<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-17/white-noise-podcasters-are-costing-spotify-38-million-a-year?sref=ExbtjcSG</ref>. | |||
June 29, 2023: The number of Spotify video podcasts has grown to 100,000 from 70,000 in March. Most video podcasts are published in U.S., Brazil, Mexico, the U.K., and Germany. Video podcasts is also seeing great adoption in Philippines, where "video podcasts account for over half of podcast consumption." "We’ve charted consistent positive growth in audience retention and episode listenership among shows that have adopted video to date," Spotify said in the statement<ref>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-06-29/spotify-tops-100000-video-podcasts/</ref>. | June 29, 2023: The number of Spotify video podcasts has grown to 100,000 from 70,000 in March. Most video podcasts are published in U.S., Brazil, Mexico, the U.K., and Germany. Video podcasts is also seeing great adoption in Philippines, where "video podcasts account for over half of podcast consumption." "We’ve charted consistent positive growth in audience retention and episode listenership among shows that have adopted video to date," Spotify said in the statement<ref>https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-06-29/spotify-tops-100000-video-podcasts/</ref>. | ||