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Spotify Lays Off 5% of Staff Across The Ringer and Podcast Studios Business


Spotify laid off 15 employees in its podcast division, spanning The Ringer and Spotify Studios.

The roles that were eliminated will be reallocated to support Spotify’s video podcast push, a source familiar with the company said. Those let go from The Ringer include senior staff writer Claire McNear and audio producer Jonathan Kermah, who posted about the layoffs on social media. “[T]ime for an unfortunate media rite of passage: after 9 years at The Ringer, I was laid off this week,” McNear wrote Thursday on X.

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