hell for a long time. wow. joining us now is janelle hill contributing writer for the atlantic and host of janelle hill on spotify and nba superstar renee montgomery, owner and vice president of the team. if we can turn to both of you on break news stories, political stories, sports stories, covid, intersection of all those things. we ve never sat down and put this at the center of it. the example, the opportunity, in sharing their struggles. it s so powerful especially now. janelle, we talked about naomi osaki at the time and what that was like. the truth is, while most people don t ever have the experience of that greatness on the tennis court, a lot of people could relate to what she talks about. how sit received sort of in
an app to an app called . betty labs and rebranded it as green room. and they are now launching a product designed to go. in the car and give spotify- ownership of the car to take it away from radio time. and now the big tech companies are pushing into audio, - but they re also specifically focusing on how they- can take over some of the time of radio. why do spotify want to be in podcasts? spotify wants to get into podcasts because every time you listen - to music on spotify, they actually have to pay the people, - but they cannot put ads in it. so they re playing forl you to listen to music. if you pay for spotify i and listen to a podcast, they are actually double dipping on revenues so they re -
temperatures we are seeing could be taking the earth out of the cycle of ice ages that we have been in for the last couple of million years. pushing us into a new, and uncertain, climate reality. the brazilian country singer marilia mendonca has been killed in a plane crash on her way to perform in a concert in the southeast of the country. four other people her uncle, her producer and two crew members also died when the small private plane went down in a mountainous area. mendonca who was 26 was a feminist icon of the brazilian country music style known as sertanejo . she won a latin american grammy in 2019 and in 2020 was the most listened to artist in brazil on spotify. the cause of the crash is not yet known. the un security council has expressed deep concern about the intensifying
like josh berry whose podcast is up for a comedy award. and we work with numerous comedy clubs around the country, we run union jack comedy club in order to promote stand up comedy just as everything in coming back from the pandemic. the reason for that is jack has always been a disruptive type of brand. the genesis of the jack brand innorth america was in a world where there is very formulaic, formatted radio, the way to stand out against that is to do something different and that is what jack is all about. i just want to bring ashley into the report here because the irony is that the streaming platforms have been incredibly disruptive in one sense of traditional radio but spotify for example is now pushing into speech content. they re pushing this type of content but they also required
going on but i think also, the pandemic and working from home rather than being in an office environment rather than a radio station was chosen for you, you can choose your own radio station and maybe explore some radio stations that you might not have listened to before. so, i think there was a lot of that going on and absolutely agree with miranda. the thing that radio delivers more than anything is the ability to be topical, to be insightful with the day s events but also, it is that friend in the room but from a musical perspective, it is the curation of the output rather than what i m listening to is driven some algorithm. but about podcasts perspective, the likes of spotify, amazon, audible, did they see their broadcasts stats go up during the pandemic? yes, in terms of research and study, they went up every single years they did see growth in the us.