A podcaster could mark episodes as subscriber-only and publish them on Spotify and other podcast listening platforms, the company said Spotify launched on Tuesday a paid subscription platform for podcasters in the United States and plans to expand in other regions in the coming months, a week after Apple unveiled a similar service.
A podcaster could
mark episodes as subscriber-only and publish them on Spotify and other podcast
listening platforms, the company said in a statement.
Spotify, the world's
most popular paid music streaming service, said it won't take a commission from
podcast creators' subscriber revenue for the next two years, and planned to
charge a 5% fee starting in 2023.
Online stores such
as Apple's app store usually charge developers a fee for purchases made on
their platforms.
Spotify filed a
complaint two years ago with European Union regulators saying that the fees
Apple charges for taking payments through the store had made it unfairly
difficult for rivals to compete for music subscribers.
Apple competes with
Spotify for music streaming and earlier this month unveiled a subscription
platform that will cost $19.99 per month and will provide creators the tools
they need to offer podcast subscriptions.
Spotify has selected
12 independent podcasters to publish subscriber-only bonus content in their
existing podcast feeds, and the company will also expand the programme to more
creators over the coming months.
National Public
Radio (NPR) will publish five ad-free shows for paid subscribers from May 4,
including "How I Built This with Guy Raz" and "Planet
Money".
Spotify has been
boosting its podcast muscle by spending more than half a billion dollars in
buying podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor, and podcast ad company Megaphone.
The new subscription
tool is built using Anchor's platform.
The Swedish company
is also testing a system where content publishers on other platforms with
existing subscriber bases can deliver paid content using Spotify.
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