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Spotify, the

streaming

music heavyweight

, is launching a

new type of playlist on

Tuesday

that mixes

custom music and news podcasts

from various French media outlets, such as the French daily

Le Monde

and AFP.

The function, called

My daily

in France, offers each user a playlist "designed for him by Spotify" that brings together "in a single listening moment a personalized musical selection and short news podcasts," the group said in a statement. .

The latter are produced by

Le Monde

, the Agence France Presse (AFP), the online news program Brut, Radio France (franceinfo and France Inter) and the network of podcasts

Choses à Savoir

, the first partners of this service.

The music mix is ​​designed "according to the

listening habits of users

so that they can both listen to their favorite songs and discover others according to the songs and artists they listen to," the platform explains.

Playlist updates happen throughout the day, he says.

Three news podcasts are broadcast exclusively on the platform:

L'Heure du Monde

, a new podcast produced by the newspaper, which "offers an exchange with a newsroom journalist, for a 20-minute vision on the topic of the news. of the day or an in-depth look at an investigation. "

AFP launches

Sur le fil

, a new daily format "to collect the essential news of the day in France and abroad in three minutes, published from Monday to Friday at 5 am".

Since January, the 100% video medium Brut offers "its strongest stories and reports in podcast form, on a date twice a day" on the platform.

This feature is also available in five countries (the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and Germany), Spotify said.

Spotify is the world's largest music streaming company, with

345 million users

, including 155 million subscribers, in 170 markets.

Like its French competitor Deezer, the Swedish group is increasingly expanding into the world of podcasts, which is a hotbed of audio content of all kinds.

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