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More Bad News at Spotify, Amazon’s Ad Business Revealed, and Guest Wajahat Ali

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.37.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Meta threatens to shut down Facebook in Europe! Kara and Scott discuss the latest twist at Spotify, and the surprising scale of Amazon's advertising business. Also, no one is watching the Olympics. Friend of Pivot Wajahat Ali joins to talk about his book, “Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American." You can find Wajahat on Twitter at @WajahatAli. Send us your Listener Mail questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether

0:34.4

that's just because I'm bit for homebody and I love a 5th. But I think it's just the

0:39.1

holiday period. It's just for me, it's the most romantic period. And I think anyone who's

0:44.6

listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of rowbacks.

0:48.4

Join in every sip with Red Cups now Back at Starbucks. Hi everyone, this is Pivot from

1:00.4

the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher. And Kara, I've decided to give up Edibles.

1:06.1

I was watching a program last night on mute for a full hour before and I started crying

1:11.5

because I thought I'd gone deaf. That's good. That's good. Edibles humor.

1:19.3

Anyway, we're going to be in Miami next week. We're not going to try to sell it too much

1:22.5

because someone got mad because we're selling. We're selling Miami. So what? Big deal.

1:26.7

Big deal. Come to our conference. Bigges. How's that? Is that something?

1:29.5

Yeah, that's right. That's good. That's good. Next week, we're very excited. It's going

1:33.2

to be fun. We're going to have a good time. A little, a little, a little, a little,

1:39.5

a little, pre-ed on the beach, as they say? Preept. All kinds of stuff. So it's going to be fun.

1:43.8

Please buy tickets. It's going to be. It's a great program. It's really just a great program.

1:48.3

It's full of new stuff. And more to be added soon in NFTs and crypto and etc.

1:54.4

People think we're not horse. We are, but we're relatively expensive horse, which is a

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