{"id":952766,"date":"2025-08-05T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952766"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:42:10","slug":"amazon-shuts-down-wondery-podcast-studio-lays-off-employees-and-asks-ceo-to-leave-read-vps-memo-to-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/05\/amazon-shuts-down-wondery-podcast-studio-lays-off-employees-and-asks-ceo-to-leave-read-vps-memo-to-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, lays off employees and asks CEO &#8216;to leave&#8217;; read VP&#8217;s memo to staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is closing its Wondery podcast studio and cutting approximately 110 jobs as part of a major reorganization of its audio business, according to Bloomberg News. The move signals the tech giant&#8217;s strategic pivot away from its original podcasting ambitions amid industry-wide challenges. Wondery CEO Jen Sargent too will exit the company as existing shows are redistributed between Amazon&#8217;s Audible platform and a new &#8220;creator services&#8221; team focused on personality-driven content, including the popular Jason and Travis Kelce podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast industry\u2019s shift to video format prompted Amazon\u2019s move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is closing its Wondery podcast studio and cutting approximately 110 jobs as part of a major reorganization of its audio business, according to Bloomberg News. The move signals the tech giant&#8217;s strategic pivot away from its original podcasting ambitions amid industry-wide challenges. Wondery CEO Jen Sargent too will exit the company as existing shows are redistributed between Amazon&#8217;s Audible platform and a new &#8220;creator services&#8221; team focused on personality-driven content, including the popular Jason and Travis Kelce podcast. Podcast industry\u2019s shift to video format prompted Amazon\u2019s move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}