News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce. Parent comment

Re:Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce by delfinom on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:13AM (#36196444)
>What exactly was their podcast strategy?

Don't forget also forcefully add Podcasts to the UI and not allow hiding them. Also some irritating prompts in the initial rollout that kept begging you to try podcasts.

I basically unsubscribed and switched to YT Music because of that.

It's one thing for a company to offer a new service, it's another to try and push shit on consumers that aren't interested.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Spotify lays off 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce by ucm_edge on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:32AM (#36196690)
I hate the meetings where marketing and product spend 30 minutes talking themselves into that kind of pushy behavior on the grounds “our customers will want to be informed.” Or our CMO who likes to say “our paying customers like being marketed to”’with total sincerity.

Not at Spotify, it happens too many places.

[ Parent | on HN ]