Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Amazon Music enters the podcasting space today, banking on attracting listeners through its Prime subscription service and Echo speakers.
Amazon Music is starting with 70,000
podcasts, land aunching with popular ones such as
Crime Junkie,
What A Day and
Radiolab. Podcasts will be available free on subscription and ad-supported tiers.
Amazon will become the exclusive home of
Disgraceland next year and will be the home for exclusive shows from
DJ Khaled,
Becky G,
Will Smith and
Dan Patrick.