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Spotify Is Reportedly Looking to Acquire Some of Your Favorite Podcasts in Deal With Gimlet Media

Spotify may be in discussions to acquire Gimlet Media and its roster of beloved podcasts, including titles like Reply All and Crimetown. Recode’s Peter Kafka reported Friday that the music streaming giant is currently courting Gimlet for a deal worth more than $200 million, citing unnamed sources. Kafka noted that the acquisition would be significant…

Tech News Catie Keck

You May Finally Be Able to Mute Artists You Don’t Want to Hear on Spotify

Don’t want to hear an artist in Spotify playlists or radio? You may soon be able to block them. Spotify appears to be testing an iOS feature that allows its users to mute artists from being played, tech blog Thurrott first reported Monday, giving even more control to listeners about what kinds of music they’re…

Tech News Catie Keck

Spotify, Stop Screwing Us on the Apple Watch

Spotify’s long-awaited Apple Watch app is already in the hands of beta testers, according to a Reddit post and some screenshots uploaded to Imgur today. Spotify’s online forums have been bombarded with requests for Apple Watch support for years, but until today it’s never seemed like the integration ever had much momentum. For its part,…

Tech News Harri Weber

Spotify’s Spooky Haunted Doll Ad Too Creepy for Kids, British Watchdog Rules

The UK’s advertising watchdog chastised Spotify today for releasing an “unduly distressing” ad that, it argues, improperly targeted children. The ad shows young people listening to Camila Cabello’s song “Havana,” which in turn wakes up some scary looking dolls that go on to terrorize them. The Spotify pre-roll ad appeared on YouTube in June, according…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Google Is Sprucing Up Maps With a New Tab for Commuters and Built-In Music Controls

Depending on whom you ask (and where you live), the average American spends between 17 and 33 minutes each way commuting to work, which adds up to a nearly a day (or more) of wasted time every month. So to help take a little stress out of your daily work route, Google is building a…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Enjoy the Sweet Freedom of Spotify’s Family Plan While It Lasts

If you’re saving a few bucks with a Spotify family plan without following the company’s one-household rule, be sure to take advantage of it while you still can. Spotify may come knocking for your “GPS data” to confirm you are indeed following the rules, or else “you may lose access to the plan,” according to…

Tech News Harri Weber

SiriusXM is Gobbling Up Pandora for Just $3.5 Billion

It was announced this morning that SiriusXM will acquire music streaming service Pandora in a deal worth $3.5 billion. SiriusXM is touting the acquisition as the creation of the world’s largest audio entertainment company. Pandora was the first big player in the music streaming game but failed to capitalize on that advantage in a way…

Tech News Matt Novak

Spotify Finally Raises Its Frustrating Limit on Offline Downloads

Spotify has finally addressed what is, for many users, the biggest problem with its service. On Wednesday, it lifted the number of songs that users are allowed to download for offline listening. Last night something weird happened to me. I was sleepily listening to music, and adding some albums to my Spotify library, when I…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Spotify, Fix Your Crooked Logo—It’s Driving Me Nuts

The Spotify logo is tilted. It took me entirely too long to know this for sure. For at least three years, I’ve been tapping and clicking the app icon and watching the logo appear as the service loads. Looking at the lime-green circle with its black, curved lines, it just seemed a little off-kilter. But…

Tech News Jennings Brown

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Gadgets David Nield

Vimeo Removes InfoWars Content as Alex Jones Seeks Friendly Channels for His Media Empire

With few places to turn, Alex Jones started publishing videos more frequently at Vimeo last week. But it looks like he’s not wanted there either. Vimeo deleted a number of InfoWars videos over the weekend, citing violations of its terms of service. Alex Jones and his conspiracy theory empire InfoWars have been banned from most…

Tech News Matt Novak

Spotify May Let You Skip Annoying Ads Even If You Don’t Pay Up

Paying for a premium service is the absolute best way to stream your favorite songs—you’ll get a better selection and more importantly, few, if any, frustrating ads. But Spotify is still pushing its free streaming option to keep growing, despite that being one of the biggest, dumbest sticking points in Spotify’s tussle with the music…

Tech News Harri Weber

Spotify: What If We Just Removed a Few of Alex Jones’ Podcasts Instead of Banning Him

Streaming service Spotify has become the latest major web platform to find itself compelled to do something about oft-shirtless conspiracy theorist, lead-infused supplement peddler, and Infowars founder Alex Jones, removing several episodes of his podcast under policies against hate speech. Attention to Jones’ presence on Spotify was first called by Jared Holt, a researcher for progressive site…

Tech News Tom McKay

Archie Is Making Comics You Can Watch on Spotify

I am not particularly old, but I feel like that headline up there is making me feel much, much older. Archie Comics has announced a new collaboration with music streaming service Spotify to bring its rebooted era of Riverdale-set comics to the service as a series of motion comics, produced by Madefire. Using art and…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

How to Download Everything from Your Favorite Streaming Services

Don’t let a long flight or a loss of signal get in the way of your music and video streaming: Just about all the popular services let you cache downloads for offline use, and Netflix just upgraded its download mechanism to be smarter—downloading the next episode of shows you are watching and automatically deleting the…

Gadgets David Nield

Drake Spam Flooded Spotify This Weekend, Making People Upset

Spotify just found out there’s such a thing as too much Drake. This weekend, Spotify users were bombarded with the stern visage of Aubrey “Drake” Graham as part of a promotional deal, known as “ScorpionSZN,” meant to promote the artist’s latest album, Scorpion. While Drake is definitely a household name, that doesn’t mean everyone on…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin

YouTube Music Isn’t Even Close to a Spotify Killer

After trying and failing to launch a competitive music streaming service for years, Google released YouTube Music last month. You might’ve thought Google’s latest attempt to compete with the likes of Apple Music and Spotify would’ve pushed forward with new ideas. Nope. A quick browse through the app reveals that at the moment it’s simply…

Tech News David Turner

Spotify Backtracks on Controversial ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy

Spotify doesn’t want to police the content on its platform and the company finally admitted as much in a press release on Friday. The Swedish music service has updated its ‘Hateful Conduct’ rules by effectively walking the entire idea back. The policy that was announced in May resulted in the removal of the artists R.…

Tech News David Turner

Spotify Says Controversial ‘Hate Content’ Policy Was ‘Rolled Out Wrong’

Mistakes happen. On Wednesday night, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted to a rather big one in regards to the company’s controversial “Hate Content and Hateful Conduct” policy. “We rolled this out wrong and could have done a much better job,” said Ek about Spotify’s decision to remove R Kelly and the rappers XXXTentacion and Tay-K…

Tech News David Turner

Gizmodo Launches ‘The Gateway,’ an Investigative Podcast About a Controversial Internet Spiritual Guru

This podcast covers a decade-old police investigation in Utah, a qigong healing center outside of Beijing, and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.

Tech News Jennings Brown

Spotify Is Reportedly Looking to Acquire Some of Your Favorite Podcasts in Deal With Gimlet Media

You May Finally Be Able to Mute Artists You Don’t Want to Hear on Spotify

Spotify, Stop Screwing Us on the Apple Watch

Spotify’s Spooky Haunted Doll Ad Too Creepy for Kids, British Watchdog Rules

Google Is Sprucing Up Maps With a New Tab for Commuters and Built-In Music Controls

Enjoy the Sweet Freedom of Spotify’s Family Plan While It Lasts

SiriusXM is Gobbling Up Pandora for Just $3.5 Billion

Spotify Finally Raises Its Frustrating Limit on Offline Downloads

Spotify, Fix Your Crooked Logo—It’s Driving Me Nuts

8 Online Subscriptions That Don’t Actually Suck

Vimeo Removes InfoWars Content as Alex Jones Seeks Friendly Channels for His Media Empire

Spotify May Let You Skip Annoying Ads Even If You Don’t Pay Up

Spotify: What If We Just Removed a Few of Alex Jones’ Podcasts Instead of Banning Him

Archie Is Making Comics You Can Watch on Spotify

How to Download Everything from Your Favorite Streaming Services

Drake Spam Flooded Spotify This Weekend, Making People Upset

YouTube Music Isn’t Even Close to a Spotify Killer

Spotify Backtracks on Controversial ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy

Spotify Says Controversial ‘Hate Content’ Policy Was ‘Rolled Out Wrong’

Gizmodo Launches ‘The Gateway,’ an Investigative Podcast About a Controversial Internet Spiritual Guru

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