"We will work with the show creator to ensure a smooth transition for wherever the series goes next," a spokesperson told the Verge. Which is great, because it would suck even harder if those feeds were stuck in corporate nowhere-land.
At this point, any analysis pegging the ongoing restructuring solely to Spotify's podcast investments is just willful ignorance. (How many podcast-related jobs were left?) Rather, as noted in The Wall Street Journal, the company had nearly doubled its head count across the board over the past few years, fitting a pandemic-era trend where tech companies responded to what was then ballooning digital activity by hiring aggressively and taking advantage of a lower interest-rate environment to finance their means to do so. We're in a much different world today. Its investors are demanding greater.
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