Spotify Competes With Apple by Expanding Podcast Subscriptions Program

In late April, Spotify began testing a Podcast Subscriptions program as a way for creators to offer paid subscriber-only content to listeners, and today the streaming music service announced this monetization option is now available to all U.S. creators. Spotify said creators can mark episodes as subscriber-only and publish them to Spotify and other platforms through its podcast creation platform Anchor.
Spotify also announced that it plans to expand the Podcast Subscriptions program internation