{"id":82192,"date":"2022-01-14T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/?p=82192"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:48:10","slug":"spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify is shutting down its in-house podcast division, Studio 4, and either laying off or reassigning between 10 and 15 staff members, according to Deadline<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last day for those laid off will be January 21. Others have been offered new roles with Spotify’s three acquired networks Gimlet<\/i>, Parcast<\/i>, or The Ringer<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have Studio 4, it\u2019s like, \u2018Well, if all of these boxes are already checked by all of these other studios, then where does that really leave us,\u2019 and so it felt to me like there was no clear mandate of what Studio 4 was supposed to do,\u201d an impacted employee said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Julie McNamara, head of Spotify\u2019s U.S. studios and video, notified staff of the upcoming changes via a memo. She said that as a result of the Studio 4 shutdown, the company will \u201cmove faster and make more significant progress and facilitate more effective collaboration across our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Studio 4 was Spotify’s first foray into podcasting. The studio’s original group of employees \u2013 all of whom had prior podcasting experience \u2013 “helped prove” the podcast business model early on through the success of shows like “Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls 1 Keith.”<\/p>\n

A former staff member told The Verge<\/a> that Studio 4 had become a sort of “junk drawer” for projects that did not fit in at Spotify’s other three networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never once heard anybody mentioned Studio 4 by name or point to any of the work or the shows that we\u2019ve done as something to be celebrated,\u201d the affected employee says. \u201cWe\u2019re being intentionally disregarded in explanations about metrics, and growth, and listenership.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to spending millions of dollars on the acquisition of external networks and studios, Spotify also made high profile agreements with big names in podcasting, including Joe Rogan, Dax Shepard, and Alex Cooper of \u201cCall Her Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spotify is shutting down its in-house podcast division, Studio 4, and either laying off or reassigning between 10 and 15 staff members, according to Deadline. The last day for those laid off will be January 21. Others have been offered new roles with Spotify’s three acquired networks Gimlet, Parcast, or The Ringer. \u201cWhen you have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":82194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108],"tags":[114,344,587,588],"class_list":["post-82192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-news","tag-spotify","tag-podcast-studio","tag-shutdown"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSpotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio - crednews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spotify is shutting down its in-house podcast division, Studio 4, and either laying off or reassigning between 10 and 15 staff members, according to Deadline. The last day for those laid off will be January 21. Others have been offered new roles with Spotify’s three acquired networks Gimlet, Parcast, or The Ringer. \u201cWhen you have ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"crednews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-14T16:46:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-16T16:48:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1356\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cred.ai staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cred.ai staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cred.ai staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8132cf694e343ab4c8bd8a3da99e9c2\"},\"headline\":\"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-14T16:46:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-16T16:48:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"news\",\"spotify\",\"podcast studio\",\"shutdown\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Entertainment\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/\",\"name\":\"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio - crednews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-14T16:46:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-16T16:48:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8132cf694e343ab4c8bd8a3da99e9c2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2048,\"height\":1356,\"caption\":\"Chubo - my masterpiece via Shutterstock\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/14\\\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"crednews\",\"description\":\"a division of cred.ai\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8132cf694e343ab4c8bd8a3da99e9c2\",\"name\":\"cred.ai staff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0a4fea4aa3858da7e3fb753cee34170b27382926ecb015a1f13c09ef27f883d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0a4fea4aa3858da7e3fb753cee34170b27382926ecb015a1f13c09ef27f883d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0a4fea4aa3858da7e3fb753cee34170b27382926ecb015a1f13c09ef27f883d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cred.ai staff\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cred.ai\\\/news\\\/author\\\/lillycred-ai\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio - crednews","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio","og_description":"Spotify is shutting down its in-house podcast division, Studio 4, and either laying off or reassigning between 10 and 15 staff members, according to Deadline. The last day for those laid off will be January 21. Others have been offered new roles with Spotify’s three acquired networks Gimlet, Parcast, or The Ringer. \u201cWhen you have ...","og_url":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/","og_site_name":"crednews","article_published_time":"2022-01-14T16:46:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-16T16:48:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2048,"height":1356,"url":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cred.ai staff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cred.ai staff","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/"},"author":{"name":"cred.ai staff","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b8132cf694e343ab4c8bd8a3da99e9c2"},"headline":"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio","datePublished":"2022-01-14T16:46:58+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-16T16:48:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/"},"wordCount":309,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg","keywords":["news","spotify","podcast studio","shutdown"],"articleSection":["Entertainment"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/","url":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/","name":"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio - crednews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-14T16:46:58+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-16T16:48:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b8132cf694e343ab4c8bd8a3da99e9c2"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-scaled.jpg","width":2048,"height":1356,"caption":"Chubo - my masterpiece via Shutterstock"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/01\/14\/spotify-to-close-its-podcast-studio\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Spotify to Close In-House Podcast Studio"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/","name":"crednews","description":"a division of cred.ai","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b8132cf694e343ab4c8bd8a3da99e9c2","name":"cred.ai staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0a4fea4aa3858da7e3fb753cee34170b27382926ecb015a1f13c09ef27f883d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0a4fea4aa3858da7e3fb753cee34170b27382926ecb015a1f13c09ef27f883d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0a4fea4aa3858da7e3fb753cee34170b27382926ecb015a1f13c09ef27f883d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cred.ai staff"},"url":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/author\/lillycred-ai\/"}]}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/shutterstock_1771451024-768x509.jpg","youtube_link":null,"vimeo_link":null,"trailer_link":null,"video_link":null,"video_type":null,"author_name":"cred.ai staff","categories_name":["Entertainment"],"preview_image":false,"custom_author":"crednews staff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}