{"id":999266,"date":"2026-03-25T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999266"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:25:19","slug":"spotify-has-cut-15-jobs-in-podcast-unit-to-reduce-management-layers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/spotify-has-cut-15-jobs-in-podcast-unit-to-reduce-management-layers-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify has cut 15 jobs in podcast unit to reduce management layers: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish streaming giant Spotify has cut jobs in its podcasting division, laying off 15 employees, or about 3% of the team, in a push to reduce management layers and accelerate decision-making, as per a Bloomberg report. <\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, the company will also cancel the sports programme \u2018New York, New York\u2019 with John Jastremski. <\/p>\n<p>The streaming giant\u2019s podcast journey since 2019 has been marked by strategic pivots. It initially pursued platform exclusivity before opening up distribution, including making Joe Rogan\u2019s programme available on YouTube and Apple Podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish streaming giant Spotify has cut jobs in its podcasting division, laying off 15 employees, or about 3% of the team, in a push to reduce management layers and accelerate decision-making, as per a Bloomberg report. As a consequence, the company will also cancel the sports programme \u2018New York, New York\u2019 with John Jastremski. The streaming giant\u2019s podcast journey since 2019 has been marked by strategic pivots. It initially pursued platform exclusivity before opening up distribution, including making Joe Rogan\u2019s programme available on YouTube and Apple Podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999266","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}