Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday.
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 225, dated September 10, 2019.
Platisher, ye cometh. Spotify has made two interesting personnel moves to bolster its podcast development pipeline around two key genres, sports and news, according to a report by The Information that dropped on Friday.
First, the company has hired Amy Hudson, most recently the sports media partnerships lead at Facebook, to oversee its sports programming assets. Secondly, David Rhodes, the former news chief at CBS, will now serve as a consultant on the platform’s efforts around news programming.
Neither Hudson nor Rhodes comes with explicit audio/radio experience, but that’s probably not the best prism to read this development: at heart, these moves seem to be driven by a partnership- and brand-first strategy, which feels broadly…
