{"id":34520,"date":"2021-04-27T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34520"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:59:37","slug":"two-can-play-at-that-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34520","title":{"rendered":"TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify announced Tuesday that it will launch a paid subscription service for podcasters, allowing hosts to monetize their shows and letting the company compete with Apple&#8217;s premium podcast library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hcbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvwwhvm_qvmmggswstmfmdgfshgm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hcbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvwwhvm_qvmmggswstmfmdgfshgm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619714284627000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHf3xAwydOClQZbiBhodifdB52D3g\">Variety reported<\/a>\u00a0that Spotify will allow creators to host their podcasts on the platform with subscription fees for two years without charging them anything to host the shows; beginning in 2023, the platform will take a 5 percent cut of all subscriber revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Premium podcasts will be available through the platform through three payment tiers, according to Variety, at $2.99, $4.99 or $7.99 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes a week after Apple announced that it was launching its own &#8220;global marketplace&#8221; for premium, subscription-only podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify announced Tuesday that it will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34521,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34520\/revisions\/34521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}