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This sucks, but the development is ultimately unsurprising.
(Indeed, its barely inthe business of paying musical artists.)
Which is great, because it would suck even harder if those feeds were stuck in corporate nowhere-land.
These cancellations come as part ofa broader layoff round at Spotify.
At this point, any analysis pegging the ongoing restructuring solely to Spotifys podcast investments is just willful ignorance.
(How many podcast-related jobs were left?)
Were in a much different world today.
But the suck persists well beyond Spotifys borders.
The broader picture for narrative series likeHeavyweightandStolencontinues to look bleak.
My own parent company, Vox Media,just instituted another round of layoffs itself.
The CBCis cutting 10 percent of its own head count, citing a CAD$125 million shortfall.
WNYC is reallocating its focus to local.
Does the New YorkTimeshave any appetite for investing in another narrative audio unit outside of Serial Productions?
Are either SiriusXM and iHeartMedia interested at all in properly investing in shows likeHeavyweightandStolen?
How much longer will Wondery bankroll narrative podcasts?
Then again, this particular line of questioning still uses a pre-2023 way of thinking.
Could that model support something likeHeavyweightandStolen?
If there were ever a time to find out, this is it.
