Spotify for Podcasters release new terms of use

• Spotify for Podcasters has launched a new set of terms and conditions, that are related for these internet hosting on Spotify or simply distributing podcasts on it. In an e-mail, Spotify has run through some of the changes; we examined the phrases of use to see what’s been deleted (red) and what’s new (blue). There aren’t any massive adjustments; however issues that we’ve noticed:

  • podcasts that include “promotional content material” have to be marked (similar to YouTube requires; and this setting already exists on Spotify video uploads)
  • The “RSS Feed” has been faraway from the phrases and circumstances as a technique of delivering content material. We’d not learn an excessive amount of into this; the brand new phrases have eliminated all strategies of delivering content material, together with the Spotify web site itself.
  • The licensing necessities have been considerably shortened. As a part of that, Spotify now not contractually has to show your individual copyright discover (although it’s unlikely that’ll go away, in our opinion).
  • There’s no point out of coaching AI or something like that, although the phrases have at all times allowed by-product works.
  • There may be additionally loads of stuff about arbitration in case of a dispute, which we don’t perceive, however which has added two full pages to this settlement. Legal professionals, eh?

• “Instinctively, commissioners favour long-running “at all times on” chat present codecs – they’re the only exhibits to monetise with their means to develop audiences over time and appeal to advertisers. Any restricted run collection – fiction or non-fiction – is competing at a drawback.” Writing for Podnews, John Scott Dryden from Goldhawk Productions asks: Do we know how to monetise limited-run audio series?, and shares among the methods the corporate has discovered success.

• Quite a lot of business media and content material companies have written to the UK’s Labour Party to warn about the damage that could be caused if the BBC is allowed to put promoting in its audio content material within the UK. It additionally highlights the precedent that will be set by the transfer. (The Labour Get together are prone to kind the subsequent authorities in July).

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Blubrry’s Podcast Insider makes it to episode 400 at present – no less than, they suppose it’s “shut sufficient” to episode 400. The present has undergone many rebrandings because it began because the Blubrry neighborhood podcast.





On June 14, 2023, a fishing trawler that had sailed from Libya to Italy capsized about 47 nautical miles south of Pylos, Greece. It’s estimated that 750 folks have been on board. Within the investigative podcast Pylos: A Year On, particulars are revealed about the way it sank, and the trial of the 9 survivors accused of trafficking and inflicting the shipwreck. The podcast is in English and Greek.

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