Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, April 23rd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Spotify looks like it's going to quickly counter Apple with a podcast subscription

competitor that might be extremely creator friendly. The mystery of the

driverless Tesla car crash worth noting how quickly things have been turned around for the better over at

Snapchat and of course the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you missed

today in the world of tech. You're going to want to listen to the Twitter space that is coming out this weekend because

Chris and I and a bunch of folks dive deep into not just the Apple event and the new IMAX but also the announcement of the big Apple

podcast changes that included the arrival of subscriptions.

I've not done a segment on it because I feel like it's maybe

too niche a story in a way, but maybe it's becoming a broader story of the

whole heat around the podcasting space coming home to Roos because Spotify is holding a

mysterious event next week and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that at that

event they will announce an Apple podcast subscriptions competitor that will let

podcasters set any price they want for

subscriptions and Spotify will not take any sort of cut. So I want to talk about

this now because you'll see how this touches on a whole bunch of recent narratives we've been discussing.

Quote, with Apple making its move into subscription, there is this platform more emerging, said

Josh Lindgren, head of Creative Artist Agency's podcast department.

Podcasters will pay Apple $19.99 a year to enable subscriptions and set their own prices

for listeners.

Apple will take a 30% cut of subscription revenue the first year

and a 15% take thereafter. Spotify plans to announce its own offering next

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