Amaya Toman Podcasts of various focus are still very popular among many users. One of the applications that offers to listen to them is the popular music streaming service Spotify, which now, through the acquisition of the Podz platform, has decided to improve the search for new podcasts for its users. In the second part of our roundup today, we will talk about Facebook and their upcoming community standards.
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Spotify buys the Podz platform, wants to improve its podcast offer even more
You can use a number of different apps to listen to podcasts, but the music streaming service Spotify also offers this feature. But finding new content to listen to and watch can sometimes be more than just time-consuming. Spotify has therefore decided to try to make it easier and more enjoyable for its listeners to find new podcasts in the future, and as part of this effort late last week it bought the Podz platform, which is used precisely for discovering new podcast shows. This is a startup whose founders have jointly developed the function of the so-called "audio newsfeed", which contains one-minute audio clips from various podcasts.
To select the mentioned short clips, the Podz platform uses machine learning technology, with the help of which the best moments from each podcast are selected. Users can thus easily and quickly get a very accurate idea of what the given podcast actually looks like and whether it is worth listening to and subscribing to. Combining the technology developed by Podz and Spotify's podcast repertoire of 2,6 million podcasts, Spotify wants to take podcast discovery on its platform to a whole new level. Information on how much Spotify spent on the acquisition of the Podz platform is not known.
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Facebook is preparing to update its community standards to better specify satire
Facebook has decided to update its community standards to make it clearer to all parties how the popular social network handles satirical content. "We will also add information to the Community Standards to clarify when we consider satire as part of our evaluation of context-specific decisions," says the related official Facebook statement. This change is intended to help hate content review teams determine whether it is satire. Facebook has not yet specified the criteria based on which it will distinguish permissible and impermissible satire.
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