Video podcasts have taken off in recent years, and Spotify has taken note. The audio titan has been investing in video creators, including launching new tools and incentives. Here's how Spotify is ...

YouTube surpassed 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers in 2025 while SiriusXM overtook Spotify and iHeart as the top ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face? Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he explores ...

Hello, hello. Welcome back to Soundbite. Today, we’ll dive into the conversation rankling the podcast industry — in a world where YouTube is seemingly the dominant platform, and Spotify is moving into ...

Video didn't kill the podcast star. Instead, video has helped make podcasters into bigger stars -- and that is why it is nearly impossible to find a successful show in 2025 that does not include a ...

In 2024, podcasts are about as mainstream as media gets. Sure, their audiences are hugely fragmented and largely invisible to one another — the monoculture remains dead and rotting. But the medium is, ...

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Spotify announced on Wednesday that it will start paying podcast hosts who make popular videos on its streaming platform, as the company looks to take on YouTube’s dominance in the video podcast space ...

The podcasting company, which saw 110 layoffs, is the latest to pivot as the Google-owned video platform ecosystem pushes longform chats as a watchable format. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer After ...

Two podcasts hosts banter back and forth during the final episode of their series, audibly anxious to share some distressing news with listeners. “We were, uh, informed by the show's producers that we ...