Spotify PR:

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) (the “company"), the world’s most popular music streaming service, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Gimlet Media Inc. (“Gimlet"), the renowned independent producer of podcast content, and Anchor (“Anchor"), the company leading the market for podcast creation, publishing, and monetization services. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed.

Anchor is a surprise. I think this marks Spotify’s first move into the content-creation game.

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