Spotify has unveiled a new feature, powered by ChatGPT developer OpenAI, that clones podcasters’ voices using AI. The company claims the technology will be used for translation purposes, allowing the voices of podcasters to present their shows in languages they don’t speak.
A top Hollywood talent agent is the latest prominent figure to publicly ridicule Meghan Markle following her disastrous split from Spotify, saying the Duchess of Sussex is “not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent.”
Kelly Osbourne gleefully tore into Prince Harry as a “fucking twat” who’s always “whining” and “complaining.”
Various reports are credibly-accusing Meghan Markle of faking some of the interviews on her now-canceled Spotify podcast Archetypes.
Spotify executives like Bill Simmons are ripping into Harry and Meghan as “lazy” and “f*cking grifters.”
Spotify is in financial trouble, so it’s dropping the dead weight, and there’s not much out there that’s dead weightier than these two crybabies.
Spotify is reportedly developing AI tools capable of creating targeted ads using its podcast hosts’ voices, as revealed by Bill Simmons, the founder of The Ringer, a Spotify-owned podcast network.
Streaming music giant Spotify has taken action against AI music start-up Boomy, removing tens of thousands of songs from its platform amid growing concerns over streaming fraud and clutter.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is launching a new podcast series with Audible based on her recent book, ‘The Light We Carry.’
Music streaming giant Spotify recently announced plans to lay off six percent of its workforce. The cuts will impact almost 600 workers as many other internet power players make significant staff cuts as well.
Spotify and eight other app developers and associations have sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the EU Commission, urging her to take legal action against Apple’s app distribution methods. The letter states that “Apple benefits from a monopoly position over its mobile ecosystem and extracts exorbitant rents from app developers who have no choice but to remain on the App Store to reach European consumers.”
Spotify’s CEO said the company won’t remove Kanye West’s music from its platform despite mounting pressure to do so from a growing number of corporate leaders and news media outlets.
Meghan Markle’s podcasting debut has seen her show shoot to the top of the Spotify rankings, unseating Joe Rogan from first place.
Meghan Markle’s debut podcast released Tuesday, tied to her agreement with streaming giant Spotify and reportedly worth $25 million, drew an underwhelming response from critics and some members of the public alike.
Meghan Markle kicked off her new Spotify podcast series “Archetypes” on Tuesday with a feminist rant, complaining that ambition has become a “terrible, terrible” thing for women.
Barack and Michelle Obama are expanding their media empire by teaming up with Amazon’s Audible in a multi-year deal that will see the former first couple create podcasts and other audio content for the platform following their departure from Spotify.
Music and podcast streaming service Spotify recently announced the formation of a “Safety Advisory Council” to provide third-party input on issues including “hate speech”, disinformation, and extremism. The move comes after an ongoing backlash against the platform for not censoring Joe Rogan enough to satisfy leftists.
After signing an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2019, the Obamas will reportedly be leaving the platform after their deal ends in October.
Meghan Markle has reportedly filed an application to trademark the centuries old word “archetypes” ahead the launch of her upcoming podcast.
The fallout from Will Smith physically assaulting Chris Rock at the Oscars will impact more than just Smith’s Hollywood career. Corporate partners who have allied themselves with Smith and his charitable foundation now face brand safety concerns over the actor’s newly toxic public image.
Podcast giant Joe Rogan recently stated that he will happily leave Spotify, abandoning his $200 million deal with the woke tech company, if he has to censor his thoughts and “walk on eggshells.”
Director Ava DuVernay is the latest entertainment industry figure to cut ties with Spotify, reportedly ending a first-look deal between the streaming audio company and her production company, Array.
Not all of rock star Neil Young’s music has been removed from Spotify after most of his work was pulled from the music streaming platform in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan.
The UFC announced on Friday that Joe Rogan would not be on the broadcast team Saturday night for UFC 271 in Houston, Texas.
Jon Stewart has come to the defense of Joe Rogan yet again, saying comments labeled as “misinformation” can often prove to be correct, as was the case with the Iraq War.
Singer India Arie, one of the musicians who asked Spotify to remove her music over famed podcaster Joe Rogan, says she never called Rogan “racist,” and insists that she doesn’t believe in cancel culture.
Joe Rogan has pivoted back to his comedy roots in his latest attempt to address the cancel culture mob that has accused him of using his massively popular podcast to spread “misinformation” about the coronavirus vaccine.
Podcaster Joe Rogan pushed back during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday when he called the recent cancel campaign against him as a “political hit job.”
Grammy-winning rapper T-Pain reacted to the attempts to blacklist podcast Joe Rogan over his past comments, saying that if Spotify cancels Rogan, then the company will have to silence a lot of rap lyrics, which include “killing each other and
Rock icon Neil Young has encouraged Spotify employees to quit the platform in protest over the CEO’s decision to back Joe Rogan.
Former President Donald Trump offered some tough advice to podcaster Joe Rogan on Monday amid the campaign to cancel him: stop apologizing.
Video-hosting platform Rumble is offering famed podcaster Joe Rogan a $100 million deal to leave Spotify and appear exclusively on the upstart YouTube competitor. The offer arrives amid Rogan facing calls from the cancel culture mob to remove him from Spotify over alleged misinformation regarding the Chinese coronavirus, and more recently, his past usage of the N-word during podcast episodes.
Former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang (D) deleted a tweet over the weekend where he expressed the opinion that Joe Rogan — who has come under the wringer following an ongoing censorship battle with Spotify and the subsequent surfacing of a video compilation, showing him using the N-word on his podcast — is “not racist,” deeming his original defense of Rogan “wrong-headed” and hurtful.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said that he will not remove podcaster Joe Rogan from his platform despite the recently surfaced videos.
The progressive establishment is determined to cancel Joe Rogan, for obvious reasons: because he’s popular, more popular than any other media figure in the U.S. who comments on current events, and he’s not on their team.
Famed podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized for using the N-word during past podcast episodes after a compilation of him using the word surfaced on the Internet amid calls to cancel him from Spotify.
Spotify has mass-deleted at least 70 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience as the platform faces further calls to remove Rogan’s show from its platform. The deletions have nothing to do with coronavirus “misinformation” as they primarily date from before the pandemic, including shows with anti-woke academic Gad Saad, director Kevin Smith, and comedian and podcaster Theo Von. This is not the first time that Spotify has censored episodes of the show since signing a megadeal with the comedian.
Former President Barack Obama, 60, and former First Lady Michelle, 58, are looking at new podcast deals with companies aside from their current partner Spotify, a report claimed Thursday, as the former first couple’s current three-year agreement runs out.
Spotify boss Daniel Ek addressed his staff Wednesday and their concerns over the content of Joe Rogan’s podcasts, reminding them of the virtues of tolerance before pointing out it is not the company’s place to “dictate the discourse” of his controversial show.
Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart defended podcaster Joe Rogan this week and advised artists to resist pulling their work from Spotify in protest of him.