Amazon Music and the Tech Giant’s Audible subsidiary plan to offer podcasts from third-party content providers to their platforms, particularly by expanding their audio offerings and clashing with Apple, Google, Spotify and other primary podcast distribution platforms.
But first, they have to deal with a public mess.
The company unveiled its plans Monday in a massive email to podcast content producers, adding news and media organizations that control Amazon, saying that data about its podcast plans is “confidential” without following the popular practice of obtaining their consent to treat the confidential message.
This information, of course, was temporarily tweeted and publicly reported, which ended temporarily on the home page of Techmeme, the most often generation news aggregation site.
Then came the real mess. Podcasters who clicked to submit their systems discovered this clause in the content license agreement that is a requirement to participate in the program: “Your content may not (a) come with advertising or messages that denigrate or are directed against Amazon or any service; Array.. »
This is not a start for many podcast hosts, especially those who comment on the tech giant.
I’m a scary entertainment podcast and I can’t give my consent.
Like a genuine podcast?! pic.twitter.com/QlE23KdAv7
– HydroxyCoreyQuinn (@QuinnyPig) August 11, 2020
Amazon has already presented podcasts on its Echo speakers through the TuneIn music service. The diversity of Alexa-enabled devices and the Amazon Music service can be a wonderful charm to many podcasters. The message indicates that the screens would be held through services, adding Amazon Music’s loose offering, achieving more than 55 million customers.
Audible, known for its audiobooks, has grown in recent years with a variety of episodic systems and other types of audio content.
GeekWire, one of the podcast content makers who won the message. We do not submit our weekly GeekWire podcast for inclusion, nor do we accept the terms of the license, and we do not agree to treat the data contained in the email confidentially before receiving it.
We’ve contacted Amazon and Audible to comment on this story, and we’ve still won a response.
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